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Guaju Journal | Transforming territories for sustainability: a look at the Portuguese reality

The period for the submission of articles for the thematic issue "Transforming territories for sustainability: a look at the Portuguese reality" to be published in the Guaju Journal is now open.

Deadline for submission of articles: 30 October 2021

The central focus of this Special Issue of the journal is the discussion of territorial issues that fall within the intersection between society and nature, and that explore the most diverse challenges of sustainability, in a multidimensional and comprehensive vision.

The challenges - social, environmental, economic, cultural, governance - of the last decades, as well as those generated by the recent Covid-19 pandemic, have reinforced the need to develop new policies, strategies and practices that bring innovative dynamics to the territories and their agents and that strengthen an integrated, fair and sustainable development.

Promoting development (territorially based), quality of life and well-being (in an inclusive way) are aims of most public policies and planning instruments, designed and implemented at different scales. The purpose of this Special Issue is to bring contributions from the Portuguese reality in these domains, and the main topics in focus are the following: