As the impact of COVID-19 pandemic was felt worldwide, tourism sector forced to seek ways reinventing itself. Two decades prior this crisis, in varied rural areas and island contexts, small-scale, community-based creative had appeared as a sustainable place-making solution foster place vitality, competitive distinctiveness, regenerative development destination resilience. From an perspective, a...

This article presents one of the results research developed at UERJ, with support CNPq, entitled "New Portuguese Geo-Historical Studies", and focuses on partial description linguistic ethnographic reality Azores Archipelago. It takes as its base-text Linguistic-Ethnographic Atlas examines linguistic, historical physical situation nine islands.

Waters from natural sources of the São Miguel Island in the Azores archipelago have been investigated regarding their corrosive action on metallic materials. The corrosive and encrusting characteristics of the waters have been established in terms of relevant chemical parameters (namely pH, conductivity, total dissolved solids (TDS), and concentrations of bicarbonate, calcium, magnesium, chlori...

Diet compositions expressed in weight are essential to determine the trophic relationships in energetic terms between the compartments within a system. Data from stomachs were compiled from a number of sources (62102 stomachs), covering four broad areas such as the Northwest Atlantic, South Africa, Senegal and the Azores Islands in order to explore the empirical relationships between the freque...

The Azores and St. Helena currents (AzC and StHC, respectively, the latter also known as Tristan da Cunha current), in the North and South Subtropical Atlantic Ocean, have been subject of a few studies using in situ data, that pointed towards a number of similarities between them regarding intensity, depth penetration and volume transport, and the latitudes at which their main cores are found (...