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  1. Contribution of nature-based solutions (NbS) to resilience - A review of European projects between 2014 and 2023

    Article • Environmental Development, January 2026, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  2. 3. Soluções Baseadas na Natureza na Transição para a Sustentabilidade das Áreas Urbanas: perspetivas geográficas, inovação e planeamento

    Article • August 2025, University of Minho

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  3. Addressing acceleration areas for renewable energy development in the European Union (EU): A case study of mainland Portugal

    Article • Journal of Cleaner Production, August 2025, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  4. Book review

    Article • Emotion Space and Society, August 2025, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  5. Refugios climáticos en España: lectura crítica de un equipamiento urbano para el turismo estival

    Article • Investigaciones Turísticas, July 2025, Publicaciones Universidad de Alicante

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  6. Geography of Sustainability Transitions: Mapping Spatial Dynamics and Research Trends Between 1995 and 2024

    Article • Environments, May 2025, MDPI AG

    Associate Professor, Hab, PhD, MSc (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2198-6740; madinis@ufp.edu.pt) Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis, Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  7. A Geospatial Approach to Urban Project Management and Resilience

    Article • International Journal of Information Technology Project Management, April 2025, IGI Global

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  8. Urban heat stress in the context of socioeconomic and environmental challenges: Heat risk analysis and online surveys in northwestern Portugal

    Article • International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, April 2025, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  9. Green infrastructure and its influence on urban heat island, heat risk, and air pollution: A case study of Porto (Portugal)

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, March 2025, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  10. Editorial: Exploring the multifaceted relationship between human health and urban nature in times of crises

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, February 2025, Frontiers

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  11. Sustainable Placemaking and Thermal Comfort Conditions in Urban Spaces: The Case Study of Avenida dos Aliados and Praça da Liberdade (Porto, Portugal)

    Article • Urban Science, February 2025, MDPI AG

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  12. The Vulnerability of Tourism to Climate Change in Portuguese and Brazilian Cities—A Review

    Article • January 2025, MDPI AG

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  13. The Nexus of Nature-Based Solutions and Sustainability in Cities: Vegetation’s Impact on Particulate Matter Capture and Traffic Noise Reduction

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  14. The Role of Vegetation in Attenuating the Urban Heat Island (UHI): A Case Study in Guimarães, Portugal

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  15. Tourism and Climate Change: Tracing the Evolution and Harnessing Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) for Sustainable Urban Resilience

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  16. Urban Green Spaces, New Forms of Participation, and New Protagonists: From Crisis to (Re)Centralization

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  17. Environmental Quality and Ecosystem Services in Urban Green Spaces: An Integrated Assessment of Cooling, Noise, and Air Pollution in Braga

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  18. Book review: U. Chatterjee, A. O. Akanwa, S. Kumar, S. K. Singh, and A. D. Roy (Eds.), Ecological Footprints of Climate Change: Adaptive Approaches and Sustainability

    Article • Progress in Development Studies, November 2024, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  19. Historical Landscape: A Methodological Proposal to Analyse the Settlements of Monasteries in the Birth of Portugal

    Article • Religions, September 2024, MDPI AG

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  20. Clothing and Outdoor Thermal Comfort (OTC) in tourist environments: a case study from Porto (Portugal)

    Article • International Journal of Biometeorology, September 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  21. Solar Radiation Measurement Tools and Their Impact on In Situ Testing—A Portuguese Case Study

    Article • Buildings, July 2024, MDPI AG

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  22. The extent of the impact of green spaces on urban heat islands: A meta-analysis of research using remote sensing between 2010 and 2023

    Article • June 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  23. Compor Mundos: Explorando a Metamorfose do Mundo na Era das Alterações Climáticas e as Suas Implicações Para a Saúde

    Article • Revista Lusófona de Estudos Culturais, May 2024, University of Minho

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  24. A bibliometric analysis on creative tourism (2002–2022)

    Article • Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, May 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  25. The Portuguese dams of the international Douro, climate change and adaptation strategies: perspectives within the framework of the Albufeira Convention and the Water Framework Directive

    Article • Water International, March 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  26. Lifting the Veil of Complexity, Demanding for Convergence: An Introduction to the Book “Planetary Health and Climate Change”

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor, Hab, PhD, MSc (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2198-6740; madinis@ufp.edu.pt) Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis, Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  27. A Scientific-Metric Analysis of Urban Tourism and Climate Change—An Investigation Based on Web of Science and Scopus

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  28. An Introduction to Spatial and Territorial Dimensions of Tourism and Climate Change

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  29. The Impact of Climate Change on the Dynamics of the Urban Thermal Environment: The Case Study of the Touristic Area of Porto, Portugal

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  30. Biophilia in pieces: Critical approach of a general concept

    Article • Environment and Social Psychology, October 2023, Art and Science Press Pte. Ltd.

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  31. Wine landscape and climate change: the state of art

    Article • Journal of Wine Research, October 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  32. Climate Change and Health Hazards

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor, Hab, PhD, MSc (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2198-6740; madinis@ufp.edu.pt) Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis, Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  33. The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Wellbeing in the Municipality of Porto—An Analysis Based on Remote Sensing

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  34. Challenges and Dilemmas of Creative Tourism in the 21st Century: How Can We Preserve It From the Massive Offer?

    Article • October 2022, Emerald

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  35. A comprehensive methodology for assessing outdoor thermal comfort in touristic city of Porto (Portugal)

    Article • Urban Climate, September 2022, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  36. Pathways for adapting tourism to climate change in an urban destination – Evidences based on thermal conditions for the Porto Metropolitan Area (Portugal)

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, August 2022, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  37. Análise do ambiente térmico urbano e áreas potencialmente expostas ao calor extremo no município do Porto (Portugal)

    Article • Cuadernos de Geografía Revista Colombiana de Geografía, July 2022, Universidad Nacional de Colombia

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  38. The Use of Collaborative Practices for Climate Change Adaptation in the Tourism Sector until 2040—A Case Study in the Porto Metropolitan Area (Portugal)

    Article • Applied Sciences, June 2022, MDPI AG

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  39. Perceptions of human thermal comfort in an urban tourism destination – A case study of Porto (Portugal)

    Article • Building and Environment, November 2021, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  40. The Influence of Cork and Manufacturing Parameters on the Properties of Cork–Rubber Composites for Vibration Isolation Applications

    Article • Sustainability, October 2021, MDPI AG

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  41. Abordagens metodológicas na investigação sobre percepção dos residentes em relação ao turismo

    Article • September 2021, RISCOS - Associacao Portuguesa de Riscos Prevencao e Seguranca

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  42. Climate in tourism’s research agenda: future directions based on literature review

    Article • Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles, August 2021, Buletin Asociacion Geografos Espanoles

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  43. Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Tourist Risk Perceptions—The Case Study of Porto

    Article • Sustainability, June 2021, MDPI AG

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  44. Application of artificial neural networks to predict mechanical behaviour of cork-rubber composites

    Article • Neural Computing and Applications, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  45. The Role of Residents and Their Perceptions of the Tourism Industry in Low-Density Areas: The Case of Boticas, in the Northeast of Portugal

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. José Cadima Ribeiro, Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  46. Simulation of Temperature Evolution of Cork Composites During Moulding Process

    Article • International Journal of Simulation Modelling, December 2020, DAAAM International

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  47. Analysis of the Effect of Shape Factor on Cork–Rubber Composites under Small Strain Compression

    Article • Applied Sciences, October 2020, MDPI AG

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  48. Residents’ perceptions of tourism activity in a rural North-Eastern Portuguese community.

    Article • December 2019, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes, vitor Ribeiro, Paula Remoaldo

  49. Spatial Accessibility and Social Inclusion: The Impact of Portugal's Last Health Reform

    Article • GeoHealth, November 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  50. Good and not-so-good practices in creative tourism networks and platforms: an international review

    Article • February 2019, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  51. Quality of Life One Year After Bariatric Surgery: the Moderator Role of Spirituality

    Article • Obesity Surgery, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  52. Geographic Information Systems

    Article • January 2019, IGI Global

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  53. The Use of Photos of the Social Networks in Shaping a New Tourist Destination: Analysis of Clusters in a GIS Environment

    Article • November 2018, IntechOpen

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  54. Geographic Information Systems

    Article • January 2018, IGI Global

    Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes

  55. Rural Development; Tourism Planning; Perceptions;Tourist Attributes; Stakeholders.

    Article • European Countryside, January 2017, De Gruyter

    Professor Paula P.R. Remoaldo, Prof. José Cadima Ribeiro, vitor Ribeiro, Prof. Dr. Hélder Lopes, Sara Silva