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This paper addresses groundwater artificial recharge solutions for integrated management of watersheds and aquifer systems under extreme drought scenarios. Based on a lecture presented by Dr. JP Lobo Ferreira at UNESCO's International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) Workshop held in Oslo, Norway, August 2009, the conceptual idea of Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) is considered, in this paper, as one of the scientific based solutions towards scientific based mitigation measures to climate variability and change in many parts of the world. In Portugal two European Union sponsored 6th Framework Programme for Research Projects have been addressing this topic, namely GABARDINE Project on "Groundwater artificial recharge based on alternative sources of water: Advanced integrated technologies and management" (cf. http://www.lnec.pt/organizacao/dha/organization/dha/nas/estudos_id/gabardine) and the Coordinated Action ASEMWATERNet, a "Multi-Stakeholder Platform for ASEM S&T Cooperation on Sustainable Water Use" (cf. http://www.lnec.pt/organizacao/dha/nas/estudos_id/asemwaternet and http://www.asemwaternet.org.pt). This paper addresses selected achievements of those Projects. ; 11 ; 150-158pp ; Procedings of the 4th International Yellow River Forum on Ecological Civilization and River Ethics, vol 1, pp. 150-158 ; Vol. 1 ; DHA/NAS

This paper addresses groundwater artificial recharge solutions for integrated management of watersheds and aquifer systems under extreme drought scenarios. Based on a lecture presented by Dr. JP Lobo Ferreira at UNESCO's International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) Workshop held in Oslo, Norway, August 2009, the conceptual idea of Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) is considered, in this paper, as one of the scientific based solutions towards scientific based mitigation measures to climate variability and change in many parts of the world. In Portugal two European Union sponsored 6th Framework Programme for Research Projects have been addressing this topic, namely GABARDINE Project on "Groundwater artificial recharge based on alternative sources of water: Advanced integrated technologies and management" (cf. http://www.lnec.pt/organizacao/dha/organization/dha/nas/estudos_id/gabardine) and the Coordinated Action ASEMWATERNet, a "Multi-Stakeholder Platform for ASEM S&T Cooperation on Sustainable Water Use" (cf. http://www.lnec.pt/organizacao/dha/nas/estudos_id/asemwaternet and http://www.asemwaternet.org.pt). This paper addresses selected achievements of those Projects. ; 10 ; 10 ; 4th IYRF, Oct. 20-23, 2009, Zhengzhou, China ; DHA/NAS ; 2009 ; 20 a 23 de Outubro

The food safety of vegetables produced in an urban environment is often questioned due to its proximity to a range of city pressures including road traffic, aircraft corridors, fuel filling stations, and industrial areas. Besides, past urban/industrial activities might have contaminated city soils, namely throughout air pollution deposition. In addition, the agricultural and in particular the horticultural land management practices themselves may lead to potential inputs from inadequate management of applied materials, such as fertilizers, composts and pesticides, as well as household items (e.g. fences, including materials such as paints or asbestos). These products can be an additional source of contamination for soil, water and edible vegetables, with harmful impacts on humans and other species. Moreover, the intrinsic concentration of soils can be high, depending on the chemical composition of the parent-rock (Kabata-Pendias, 2001). In this context, Lisbon Municipality, based on the decision to open, in partnership with the National Laboratory for Civil Engineering (LNEC), a new public urban allotment garden (UAG) in LNEC campus, a potentially sensitive area due to its proximity to the airport, has decided to promote a protocol to study this situation with the local government "Junta de Freguesia de Alvalade" and, on this scope, enlarge this cooperation to other UAG in the city. This study aimed to analyse the quality of soil, ground- and irrigation water, and plant species in UAG, and to correlate its nature and characteristics with their location within the city and the gardening activity. Materials and methods included the quality assessment of wet atmospheric deposition, manure, soil, vadose zone water and plant species, for six UAG in Lisbon. Results were compared with other EU studies (e.g. Hursthouse et al., 2004). As an overall conclusion, despite the fact that concentrations in soils and waters have exceeded the recommended values in some areas, the vegetables rarely presented contamination. ; 5p ; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308050551_Evaluation_of_Soil_Groundwater_and_Vegetable_Quality_in_Lisbon_Urban_Allotment_Gardens ; DHA/NRE

This paper presents a synthesis of the work developed in Portugal, by LNEC, TARH and UAlg, for the European Union Seventh Framework Programme project "Demonstrating Managed Aquifer Recharge as a Solution to Water Scarcity and Drought – MARSOL". The main achievements gathered in the DEMO sites during 2014, the first year of the project, are briefly presented. ; 05p ; DHA/NRE