Ana Horta
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3902158 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ana Horta |
| NOMBRES | Ana |
| APELLIDO | Horta |
| FIRMA | HORTA A |
| AFILIACIONES | Charles Sturt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2921-039X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Attitudes and behaviours associated with HIV transmission in men who have sex with men in Portugal – a qualitative study
HIV pandemic continues to affect key populations more than the general population, namely young men who have sex with men (MSM) [UNAIDS. (2023). The path that ends AIDS: UNAIDS global AIDS update 2023 . Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. https://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/2023-unaids-global-aids-update_en.pdf]. This study aimed to identify and better understand the attitudes and behaviours associated with HIV transmis…
Food retail environments around rural Victorian primary Schools
Few studies examine the influence on population diets of the healthiness of food retail outlets in the areas surrounding rural schools in Australia. This exploratory cross-sectional study examined associations between food retail environments within 500m and 1 km of 106 primary schools in rural Victoria, Australia, and self-reported diet and measured weight status of grade 4(9-10yo) and grade 6(12-13yo) students (n = 3236). Few significant result…
The influence of access to healthy food retail on BMI
Achieving good population level measures of access to healthy food retailers have been suggested to support healthy diets and weight. However, there is little evidence to suggest that population measures of access to healthy food at the local government level is effective in supporting healthier weight of the community. The objective of this study was to establish whether in Greater Melbourne (Australia) population measures of food retail accessi…
Using spatial analysis to examine inequalities and temporal trends in food retail accessibility
Objective: In this paper, we examined whether there are inequalities in access to food retail (by type and healthiness) across local government areas (LGA) in Greater Melbourne and by LGA grouped based on their distance from the central business district and Growth Area designation. We also examined whether these inequalities persisted over time. Design: This is a secondary analysis of a repeated cross-sectional census of food outlets collected a…
Broad Scale Spatial Modelling of Wet Bulb Globe Temperature to Investigate Impact of Shade and Airflow on Heat Injury Risk and Labour Capacity in Warm to Hot Climates
While shade and air flow are recognised factors that reduce outdoor heat exposure, the level of reduction in terms of labour capacity at varying air temperature and humidity levels is poorly understood. This study investigated cooling effects on the commonly used heat index, wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT), and subsequent impact on labour capacity, for a range of air flow and shade conditions in warm to hot climates. We modelled heat exposure u…
Liveability for older residents in regional communities through the lens of walkability and attitudes to nature – a case study in northeast Victoria, Australia
Liveability is determined by characteristics of a place including walkability and access to natural environments. These two attributes can be quantified at a fine spatial scale providing insights into liveability. Most liveability studies focus on metropolitan areas, and we identified a research gap in regional liveability research. Using a case study on two towns in Indigo Shire in regional Victoria and focusing on older residents, we examined w…
Beyond technology
This article enriches the existing literature on the importance and role of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in renewable energy sources research by providing a novel approach to instigating the future research agenda in this field. Employing a series of in-depth interviews, deliberative focus group workshops and a systematic horizon scanning process, which utilised the expert knowledge of 85 researchers from the field with diverse discip…
Optimizing efforts to restore aquatic ecosystem connectivity requires thinking beyond large dams
Infrastructure-induced fragmentation of riverine ecosystems has engendered the need for more effective aquatic restoration efforts globally. Fragmentation assessments have been extensively undertaken to inform connectivity restoration efforts for fish and other aquatic biota, but they have potentially underestimated the extent of fragmentation by fixating on large dams and overlooking the contribution of other barriers like road crossings and sma…
The critical role of trust in experiencing and coping with energy poverty
Automobility and Oil Vulnerability
Climate policies in the European Union require a substantial reduction in carbon emissions from road transport. However, in the last decades the system of automobility has expanded considerably, establishing a process of path dependence that is very difficult to reverse. Changes in current patterns of automobility may increase oil vulnerability of citizens dependent on the use of the car, aggravating forms of social inequity. Based on an analysis…
Festa de Nossa Senhora de Andacollo
As festividades à Virgem de Andacollo são realizadas duas vezes por ano no Chile, segundo as celebrações indígenas ancestrais. A primeira, denominada "chica", acontece no equinócio de primavera ao longo do primeiro domingo de outubro. A segunda, designada "festa grande", ocorre no solstício de verão, no período de 23 a 27 de dezembro. Atualmente, essas festas foram assimiladas pelas celebrações católicas e atraem centenas de pessoas à pequena And…
Palhaços de folias de reis e a continuidade geracional dos ritausi
Folia de Reis é um festejo bastante popular em várias regiões do Brasil, tendo sido introduzido pelos primeiros missionários jesuítas no trabalho de catequese. Essa festa é uma manifestação religiosa que evoca a presença dos Três Reis Magos, ou Três Reis do Oriente, quando a Folia anuncia o nascimento de Jesus ao visitar casas e capelas
The Hegemony of Global Politics
Researching media coverage of climate change may shed light on the different configurations of global and domestic factors affecting journalism and politics. This article analyzes climate change coverage in Portugal from 2007 to 2014 in comparison with 14 other countries. It shows that the Portuguese press tends to reproduce the global political agenda on climate change, mainly focusing on international events associated with global political dec…
Conflicting Climate Change Frames in a Global Field of Media Discourse
Reducing global emissions will require a global cosmopolitan culture built from detailed attention to conflicting national climate change frames (interpretations) in media discourse. The authors analyze the global field of media climate change discourse using 17 diverse cases and 131 frames. They find four main conflicting dimensions of difference: validity of climate science, scale of ecological risk, scale of climate politics, and support for m…
Mobile phones, batteries and power consumption
School meals in Portugal
Drawing on a post-Foucauldian conceptual framework we look at the rationalities that inform the organization of the Portuguese school meals and the implementation of these rationalities to transform and normalize children eating habits. The empirical material is drawn from a thematic documental analysis of the school meals regulatory framework from the 1970s up until nowadays. The objectives are threefold: 1) to describe the continuities and disc…
Generational Gaps and Paradoxes Regarding Electricity Consumption and Saving
In a time of economic crisis the need to adopt energy conservation practices comes to the fore. It is helpful to evaluate the role of young people as both consumers and potential agents of change bridging the gap between school and family to encourage lower household energy consumption. Based on two surveys of parents and students of a secondary school in Lisbon, plus in-depth interviews with parents, this article analyzes the complexity of this …
Socio-Technical and Cultural Approaches to Energy Consumption
Energy consumption inconspicuously bridges nature and culture. Modern societies and cultures depend on intensive energy use from the extraction of natural resources. In fact, the industrialization process required large amounts of energy, but main sources such as oil and coal, have been gradually depleted and found to be heavily polluting the environment. Despite their environmental impacts, these resources have provided cheap and abundant power …
O desastre nuclear de Fukushima e os seus impactos no enquadramento midiático das tecnologias de fissão e fusão nuclear
O desastre nuclear de Fukushima veio relembrar desastres nucleares anteriores tais como os de Three Miles Island e Chernobyl, trazendo de volta à esfera pública o debate em torno dos problemas de segurança das centrais nucleares. No entanto, enquanto o risco associado à energia nuclear tradicional (fissão) foi amplificado pela mídia, uma nova tecnologia de energia nuclear em investigação (fissão) não foi afetada. Uma comparação entre a cobertura …
Ambiente, paisagem, património e economia
Nos últimos anos tem‐se assistido em Portugal ao crescimento exponencial do número de parques eólicos, respondendo às pressões políticas e económicas para atingir metas ambiciosas no que concerne à produção de energia através de fontes renováveis. A nível geral, este desenvolvimento tem‐se pautado por discursos consensuais – mitigação das alterações climáticas, diminuição da dependência energética face ao exterior –, mas ao nível local e situado …
Os Reis da Canastra
This masters dissertation is the result of a field research conducted among groups of 'Folias de Reis' of the region of 'Serra da Canastra', in Minas Gerais State.The main focus was the religious experiences lived by its participants, their rituals, narratives and devotional performances.In this work, the ethnographic documentation, bibliographic discussion about the so-called popular catholicism and the historical contextualization were articula…
Beyond technology
This article enriches the existing literature on the importance and role of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in renewable energy sources research by providing a novel approach to instigating the future research agenda in this field. Employing a series of in-depth interviews, deliberative focus group workshops and a systematic horizon scanning process, which utilised the expert knowledge of 85 researchers from the field with diverse discip…
The Hegemony of Global Politics
Researching media coverage of climate change may shed light on the different configurations of global and domestic factors affecting journalism and politics. This article analyzes climate change coverage in Portugal from 2007 to 2014 in comparison with 14 other countries. It shows that the Portuguese press tends to reproduce the global political agenda on climate change, mainly focusing on international events associated with global political dec…
Conflicting Climate Change Frames in a Global Field of Media Discourse
Reducing global emissions will require a global cosmopolitan culture built from detailed attention to conflicting national climate change frames (interpretations) in media discourse. The authors analyze the global field of media climate change discourse using 17 diverse cases and 131 frames. They find four main conflicting dimensions of difference: validity of climate science, scale of ecological risk, scale of climate politics, and support for m…
The critical role of trust in experiencing and coping with energy poverty
Mobile phones, batteries and power consumption
Os Reis da Canastra
This masters dissertation is the result of a field research conducted among groups of 'Folias de Reis' of the region of 'Serra da Canastra', in Minas Gerais State.The main focus was the religious experiences lived by its participants, their rituals, narratives and devotional performances.In this work, the ethnographic documentation, bibliographic discussion about the so-called popular catholicism and the historical contextualization were articula…
Ambiente, paisagem, património e economia
Nos últimos anos tem‐se assistido em Portugal ao crescimento exponencial do número de parques eólicos, respondendo às pressões políticas e económicas para atingir metas ambiciosas no que concerne à produção de energia através de fontes renováveis. A nível geral, este desenvolvimento tem‐se pautado por discursos consensuais – mitigação das alterações climáticas, diminuição da dependência energética face ao exterior –, mas ao nível local e situado …
Generational Gaps and Paradoxes Regarding Electricity Consumption and Saving
In a time of economic crisis the need to adopt energy conservation practices comes to the fore. It is helpful to evaluate the role of young people as both consumers and potential agents of change bridging the gap between school and family to encourage lower household energy consumption. Based on two surveys of parents and students of a secondary school in Lisbon, plus in-depth interviews with parents, this article analyzes the complexity of this …
Socio-Technical and Cultural Approaches to Energy Consumption
Energy consumption inconspicuously bridges nature and culture. Modern societies and cultures depend on intensive energy use from the extraction of natural resources. In fact, the industrialization process required large amounts of energy, but main sources such as oil and coal, have been gradually depleted and found to be heavily polluting the environment. Despite their environmental impacts, these resources have provided cheap and abundant power …
O desastre nuclear de Fukushima e os seus impactos no enquadramento midiático das tecnologias de fissão e fusão nuclear
O desastre nuclear de Fukushima veio relembrar desastres nucleares anteriores tais como os de Three Miles Island e Chernobyl, trazendo de volta à esfera pública o debate em torno dos problemas de segurança das centrais nucleares. No entanto, enquanto o risco associado à energia nuclear tradicional (fissão) foi amplificado pela mídia, uma nova tecnologia de energia nuclear em investigação (fissão) não foi afetada. Uma comparação entre a cobertura …
Mobile phones, batteries and power consumption
School meals in Portugal
Drawing on a post-Foucauldian conceptual framework we look at the rationalities that inform the organization of the Portuguese school meals and the implementation of these rationalities to transform and normalize children eating habits. The empirical material is drawn from a thematic documental analysis of the school meals regulatory framework from the 1970s up until nowadays. The objectives are threefold: 1) to describe the continuities and disc…
Conflicting Climate Change Frames in a Global Field of Media Discourse
Reducing global emissions will require a global cosmopolitan culture built from detailed attention to conflicting national climate change frames (interpretations) in media discourse. The authors analyze the global field of media climate change discourse using 17 diverse cases and 131 frames. They find four main conflicting dimensions of difference: validity of climate science, scale of ecological risk, scale of climate politics, and support for m…
The Hegemony of Global Politics
Researching media coverage of climate change may shed light on the different configurations of global and domestic factors affecting journalism and politics. This article analyzes climate change coverage in Portugal from 2007 to 2014 in comparison with 14 other countries. It shows that the Portuguese press tends to reproduce the global political agenda on climate change, mainly focusing on international events associated with global political dec…
Palhaços de folias de reis e a continuidade geracional dos ritausi
Folia de Reis é um festejo bastante popular em várias regiões do Brasil, tendo sido introduzido pelos primeiros missionários jesuítas no trabalho de catequese. Essa festa é uma manifestação religiosa que evoca a presença dos Três Reis Magos, ou Três Reis do Oriente, quando a Folia anuncia o nascimento de Jesus ao visitar casas e capelas
Festa de Nossa Senhora de Andacollo
As festividades à Virgem de Andacollo são realizadas duas vezes por ano no Chile, segundo as celebrações indígenas ancestrais. A primeira, denominada "chica", acontece no equinócio de primavera ao longo do primeiro domingo de outubro. A segunda, designada "festa grande", ocorre no solstício de verão, no período de 23 a 27 de dezembro. Atualmente, essas festas foram assimiladas pelas celebrações católicas e atraem centenas de pessoas à pequena And…
Automobility and Oil Vulnerability
Climate policies in the European Union require a substantial reduction in carbon emissions from road transport. However, in the last decades the system of automobility has expanded considerably, establishing a process of path dependence that is very difficult to reverse. Changes in current patterns of automobility may increase oil vulnerability of citizens dependent on the use of the car, aggravating forms of social inequity. Based on an analysis…
Optimizing efforts to restore aquatic ecosystem connectivity requires thinking beyond large dams
Infrastructure-induced fragmentation of riverine ecosystems has engendered the need for more effective aquatic restoration efforts globally. Fragmentation assessments have been extensively undertaken to inform connectivity restoration efforts for fish and other aquatic biota, but they have potentially underestimated the extent of fragmentation by fixating on large dams and overlooking the contribution of other barriers like road crossings and sma…
The critical role of trust in experiencing and coping with energy poverty
Beyond technology
This article enriches the existing literature on the importance and role of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in renewable energy sources research by providing a novel approach to instigating the future research agenda in this field. Employing a series of in-depth interviews, deliberative focus group workshops and a systematic horizon scanning process, which utilised the expert knowledge of 85 researchers from the field with diverse discip…
Broad Scale Spatial Modelling of Wet Bulb Globe Temperature to Investigate Impact of Shade and Airflow on Heat Injury Risk and Labour Capacity in Warm to Hot Climates
While shade and air flow are recognised factors that reduce outdoor heat exposure, the level of reduction in terms of labour capacity at varying air temperature and humidity levels is poorly understood. This study investigated cooling effects on the commonly used heat index, wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT), and subsequent impact on labour capacity, for a range of air flow and shade conditions in warm to hot climates. We modelled heat exposure u…
Liveability for older residents in regional communities through the lens of walkability and attitudes to nature – a case study in northeast Victoria, Australia
Liveability is determined by characteristics of a place including walkability and access to natural environments. These two attributes can be quantified at a fine spatial scale providing insights into liveability. Most liveability studies focus on metropolitan areas, and we identified a research gap in regional liveability research. Using a case study on two towns in Indigo Shire in regional Victoria and focusing on older residents, we examined w…
Using spatial analysis to examine inequalities and temporal trends in food retail accessibility
Objective: In this paper, we examined whether there are inequalities in access to food retail (by type and healthiness) across local government areas (LGA) in Greater Melbourne and by LGA grouped based on their distance from the central business district and Growth Area designation. We also examined whether these inequalities persisted over time. Design: This is a secondary analysis of a repeated cross-sectional census of food outlets collected a…
Attitudes and behaviours associated with HIV transmission in men who have sex with men in Portugal – a qualitative study
HIV pandemic continues to affect key populations more than the general population, namely young men who have sex with men (MSM) [UNAIDS. (2023). The path that ends AIDS: UNAIDS global AIDS update 2023 . Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. https://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/2023-unaids-global-aids-update_en.pdf]. This study aimed to identify and better understand the attitudes and behaviours associated with HIV transmis…
Food retail environments around rural Victorian primary Schools
Few studies examine the influence on population diets of the healthiness of food retail outlets in the areas surrounding rural schools in Australia. This exploratory cross-sectional study examined associations between food retail environments within 500m and 1 km of 106 primary schools in rural Victoria, Australia, and self-reported diet and measured weight status of grade 4(9-10yo) and grade 6(12-13yo) students (n = 3236). Few significant result…
The influence of access to healthy food retail on BMI
Achieving good population level measures of access to healthy food retailers have been suggested to support healthy diets and weight. However, there is little evidence to suggest that population measures of access to healthy food at the local government level is effective in supporting healthier weight of the community. The objective of this study was to establish whether in Greater Melbourne (Australia) population measures of food retail accessi…
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