Fernanda Cravidão

Norberto Santos

Lúcio Cunha

Paula Santana

António Gama Mendes, geógrafo, brilhante professor e investigador, faleceu prematuramente em Dezembro de 2014. A sua competência científica, a sua aptidão pedagógica, a sua vastíssima bagagem cultural e, acima de tudo, uma estatura académica muito assente na sua qualidade intelectual e numa imensa generosidade do ponto de vista humano, fizeram com que a Universidade Portuguesa e, particularmente, a Geografia tenham sofrido um forte abalo com a sua partida. Para além de deixar uma obra significativa em diferentes domínios da Geografia Social, da Geografia Política e da Geografia Cultural, deixou muitos amigos em Portugal e no estrangeiro, em diferentes áreas disciplinares que vão da Geografia à Economia e da Sociologia à Filosofia e à Literatura. Por isso, este livro, com que alguns dos seus amigos de diferentes áreas científicas pretendem homenageá-lo, revisitando alguns dos temas de investigação que lhe eram mais queridos, de modo a perpetuar a memória de um nome, de uma obra e de uma personalidade absolutamente ímpares na Universidade e na ciência portuguesas.

Homenagem a António Gama

Espaços e Tempos em Geografia

Norberto Pinto dos Santos

The IGU currently has 34 commissions. Of these, CO.27 - Marginalization, Globalization, and Regional and Local Responses has, at various levels, geographers from the University of Coimbra. The organization of this publication is the outcome of the involvement of members of the Centro de Estudos de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território (CEGOT) in meetings of the International Geographical Union Marginalization, Globalization, and Regional and Local Responses commission. A series of works that analyse various socio-economic, demographic and physical realities in mainland Portugal are presented. Focusing particularly on territories in Central Portugal these works do, in fact, clarify the diversity of the importance of Coimbra's School of Geography in Portuguese geographical research. This work therefore contemplates a spread of research issues that cover the potential and problems of society and the environment in Portugal, and it is certainly helpful to understanding Portugueses society in the early 21st century.

Regional and local responses in Portugal in the context of marginalization and globalization

This book highlights the challenges and trends resulting from the relationship between tourist motivations, World Heritage Sites and local cultural uniqueness. With a special focus on Portugal and Brazil, several chapters refer to international cultural heritage experiences and destinations in Belgium, Cuba, Croatia, Italy, Japan, South Africa, Spain and Turkey. The volume shows that there is some crossover between tangible and intangible cultural heritage, and explores themes such as festivals and events, marketing, branding, sustainability, authenticity, preservation, wine tourism, ethnic tourism, religious tourism, literary tourism, museology and garden tourism. It will appeal to readers interested in tourism management, quality of the tourist offer, tourism heritage products, and characteristics of the tourism demand in the scope of cultural heritage.

Fernanda Cravidão

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