Flávia Teles
Biographic Data
| ID | 1134745 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Flávia Teles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Flávia |
| FAMILY NAME | Teles |
| SIGNATURE | TELES F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aveiro |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5059-368X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Exploring the role of inter-municipal cooperation for promoting water circular economy: Insights from a Southern European country
This article analyses the role of inter-municipal cooperation (IMC) as a governance model in promoting water circular economy (WCE) and water reuse practices. Despite the potential benefits offered by IMC, little is known about how could contribute to fostering WCE adoption. The article develops and uses a framework to assess the role of IMC in advancing WCE strategies, addressing three key dimensions: involvement of IMC in advancing WCE, robust …
Institutional challenges in water reuse and circularity: Insights from co-creation processes in Southern Europe and Middle East
The transition to the water circular economy (WCE) requires several stakeholders' awareness, articulation, and action involving complex governance concerns. As a participatory approach to identifying problems, designing solutions, and implementing strategic actions, the co-creation process should support stakeholder involvement to adjust existing institutional arrangements to foster the WCE. This article designs and applies a co-creation process …
Identifying and exploring ‘agency features’ in decision-making processes aimed at urban sustainability transformation
An urgent transformation towards sustainability is needed in socio-ecological-technical systems. Cities play a major role in leveraging change to inform local and global sustainability and resilience challenges. Urban sustainability transformation calls for more emphasis on the agency’s role in decision-making processes for urban governance. An integrative literature review was conducted to identify and explore agency features in the decision-mak…
Pre-conditions and barriers for territorial innovation through smart specialization strategies: The case of the lagging Centro region of Portugal
This research aims to understand the relevant pre-conditions and barriers for territorial innovation behind the Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3) of a lagging European Union (EU) region. For that purpose, a Delphi was conducted to a panel of experts responsible for the design of the RIS3 of the Centro region of Portugal. Consensus was reached on the role of determinant factors for territorial innovation, but the o…
What is spatial planning saying? A conceptual and methodological framework to assess the institutionalization of nature using critical discourse analysis
Spatial planning policies are fundamental blocks for the implementation of sustainable development goals. Still, despite the growing adoption of environmental proxies, as it is nature-based solutions, the study of their institutionalization in policy and spatial planning is in the early stages. Simultaneously, the use of discursive and interpretative methods to unfold the social structures related to environmental issues is growing, nonetheless, …
Institutional arrangements for water reuse: Assessing challenges for the transition to water circularity
Water scarcity and security drive attention to water reuse in policy and business. However, water reuse may generate new water loops and challenge water governance with new and different types of water, risks, involved actors, and responsibilities. These challenges demand robust institutional arrangements related to water governance. This article assesses the institutional arrangements associated with four case studies in Spain, Italy, Croatia, a…
The Inner Functioning of Local Governance Networks in Centralized Countries: A ‘Brave New World’
Local governance networks are increasingly seen as the big idea to cope with issues that are complex enough in scope and scale to require a diversity of expertise and resources. While conventional narrative has posited that local networks are optimal for addressing a range of policy problems, and enhancing democratic participation, scarce attention has been devoted to understanding their inner working. A relevant gap in the literature pertains to…
Top-down” local government mergers: Political and institutional factors facilitating radical amalgamation reforms
Why are some countries able to go ahead with comprehensive top-down local government amalgamation reforms, despite the many challenges such a reform entails? So far, we have limited theoretical and empirical understanding of how central governments manage to adopt such reforms. Drawing on different theoretical frameworks around public policy as well as research into territorial reforms, this article presents key political and institutional factor…
Territorial cohesion: Discussing the mismatch between conceptual definitions and the understanding of local and intra-regional public decision-makers
The European Union’s Cohesion Policy aims at strengthening economic, social and territorial cohesion to correct imbalances between countries and regions. However, European Union policy was expressed unevenly, and asymmetries grew at different scales. Therefore, it has raised discussions on territorial cohesion, which looks much different on the ground than in its theoretical design. This paper confronts this conceptual rationale with the percepti…
Local State-Society Relations in European Countries: Main Findings
Explanatory models of regional innovation performance in Europe: Policy implications for regions
Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialization (RIS3) was integrated as a key piece of the cohesion policy for the European Union (EU) for 2014–2020. During the recent years, more than 120 RIS3 have been developed, being a large-scale EU experience aimed to develop innovation-driven economic transformations at national and regional levels. The objective of this article is to explore the models that best explain innovative employment …
Voice, responsiveness, and alternative policy venues: An analysis of citizen complaints against the local government to the national Ombudsman
The Ombudsman is one of the most relevant and institutionalized tools to give voice to citizens, so they can express their dissatisfaction with local public services. The literature has yet to produce a systematic explanation for the variation in complaints to the national Ombudsman. This article uses classic literature from public administration and public policy to consider arguments of voice, responsiveness and alternative policy venues concer…
Assessing the intensity of cooperation: A Study of Joint Delegation of Municipal Functions to Inter-Municipal Associations
Talking is cheap, at least in the short term; elected officials may profess their preferences for IMC and yet deny IMA organisations the necessary resources to fulfil their missions. Driven by a focus on revealed preferences for inter-municipal cooperation, the article aims to answer two questions: Why do some IMA exhibit a high level of commitment on the part of their local government members whereas others remain underutilised, reflecting a cho…
Independence and Variational Bewley Preferences: A Note
Dans cet article nous étudions l’axiome d’indépendance dans un contexte de prise de décision dans l’incertain. Nous proposons une caractérisation de cet axiome qui utilise une propriété que nous appelons Weight Independence . De plus, nous étudions la relation entre l’axiome d’indépendance et le modèle de préférences variationnelles à la Bewley de Faro [2015]. Nous montrons que ces préférences satisfont une forme faible d’indépendance que nous ap…
Sustainability measurement of product-service systems: Brazilian case studies about electric car-sharing
Modifying the traditional production system and the culture of consumption is necessary to achieve a sustainable society. The product-service system (PSS) business model allows companies to progressively add services to physical products, thus promoting more pro-sustainable business outcomes. The purpose of this work is to verify how a PSS model can contribute to sustainability by analyzing two electric car-sharing projects using a set of five fa…
Inter-municipal cooperation in Europe: Introduction to the symposium
Intermunicipal cooperation: The quest for governance capacity
Intermunicipal cooperation is being increasingly adopted in various countries to cope with the dilemmas of territorial scale and resource rationing. Despite the pressures towards the reshaping of administrative boundaries, little is known about the capacity of intermunicipal associations to function as effective, legitimate and resilient policy actors. This article aims to contribute to this debate by addressing two interrelated dimensions. First…
Paving the (Hard) Way for Regional Partnerships: Evidence from Portugal
A fundamental dilemma which troubles advocates of interinstitutional partnerships in regional development pertains to the extent to which partnerships enhance the effectiveness of governance processes and outcomes. This dilemma is particularly relevant in contexts that lack strong cohesive regional development alliances, such as the Portuguese case. This article aims to shed light on the debate regarding the role of partnerships in regional devel…
Local political leaders and context awareness: Identifying perceptions of autonomy and efficacy
Leadership theories fail to explain how leaders acquire and interpret context. This article claims that political leadership styles articulate a choice of action that results from the leader's discerned possibilities to act. In order to explore these interpreted contextual determinants of leadership styles and the degree to which “possibility” has an influence over them, our research used a multiple case study design, with extensive interviews. F…
Local government and the bailout: Reform singularities in Portugal
Portugal is working on the reform of its local government. Although amalgamation was one of the recommended strategies, as a consequence of the European Union/International Monetary Fund bailout process, an alternative approach has been suggested. This reform is mostly a development of inter-municipal cooperation mechanisms combined with partial devolution strategies. However, as the bailout agreement was its main catalyst, the urgency to cut pub…
Facilitative Mayors in Complex Environments: Why Political Will Matters
Under certain circumstances the style of leadership of mayors can be the result of their context perceptions and their sense of political autonomy and efficacy. This assessment indicates that the political action of the mayor discloses a particular style of leadership that derives from his/her political will. This article suggests an analysis of political will that intends to explain why local leaders adopt facilitative styles of leadership. In t…
The Distinctiveness of Democratic Political Leadership
One recognises that political leadership still makes a difference. However, scholarship seems incapable of offering the proper tools to provide further and relevant understanding on the theme, particularly when we consider liberal democracy's current trends, namely its egalitarian ethos and the personalisation of politics. One of its key features, even in strongly controlled democracies, with tight systems of checks and balances, is the ascendanc…
Local government and the bailout: Reform singularities in Portugal
Portugal is working on the reform of its local government. Although amalgamation was one of the recommended strategies, as a consequence of the European Union/International Monetary Fund bailout process, an alternative approach has been suggested. This reform is mostly a development of inter-municipal cooperation mechanisms combined with partial devolution strategies. However, as the bailout agreement was its main catalyst, the urgency to cut pub…
Top-down” local government mergers: Political and institutional factors facilitating radical amalgamation reforms
Why are some countries able to go ahead with comprehensive top-down local government amalgamation reforms, despite the many challenges such a reform entails? So far, we have limited theoretical and empirical understanding of how central governments manage to adopt such reforms. Drawing on different theoretical frameworks around public policy as well as research into territorial reforms, this article presents key political and institutional factor…
Voice, responsiveness, and alternative policy venues: An analysis of citizen complaints against the local government to the national Ombudsman
The Ombudsman is one of the most relevant and institutionalized tools to give voice to citizens, so they can express their dissatisfaction with local public services. The literature has yet to produce a systematic explanation for the variation in complaints to the national Ombudsman. This article uses classic literature from public administration and public policy to consider arguments of voice, responsiveness and alternative policy venues concer…
Assessing the intensity of cooperation: A Study of Joint Delegation of Municipal Functions to Inter-Municipal Associations
Talking is cheap, at least in the short term; elected officials may profess their preferences for IMC and yet deny IMA organisations the necessary resources to fulfil their missions. Driven by a focus on revealed preferences for inter-municipal cooperation, the article aims to answer two questions: Why do some IMA exhibit a high level of commitment on the part of their local government members whereas others remain underutilised, reflecting a cho…
The Distinctiveness of Democratic Political Leadership
One recognises that political leadership still makes a difference. However, scholarship seems incapable of offering the proper tools to provide further and relevant understanding on the theme, particularly when we consider liberal democracy's current trends, namely its egalitarian ethos and the personalisation of politics. One of its key features, even in strongly controlled democracies, with tight systems of checks and balances, is the ascendanc…
Intermunicipal cooperation: The quest for governance capacity
Intermunicipal cooperation is being increasingly adopted in various countries to cope with the dilemmas of territorial scale and resource rationing. Despite the pressures towards the reshaping of administrative boundaries, little is known about the capacity of intermunicipal associations to function as effective, legitimate and resilient policy actors. This article aims to contribute to this debate by addressing two interrelated dimensions. First…
Explanatory models of regional innovation performance in Europe: Policy implications for regions
Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialization (RIS3) was integrated as a key piece of the cohesion policy for the European Union (EU) for 2014–2020. During the recent years, more than 120 RIS3 have been developed, being a large-scale EU experience aimed to develop innovation-driven economic transformations at national and regional levels. The objective of this article is to explore the models that best explain innovative employment …
Facilitative Mayors in Complex Environments: Why Political Will Matters
Under certain circumstances the style of leadership of mayors can be the result of their context perceptions and their sense of political autonomy and efficacy. This assessment indicates that the political action of the mayor discloses a particular style of leadership that derives from his/her political will. This article suggests an analysis of political will that intends to explain why local leaders adopt facilitative styles of leadership. In t…
Inter-municipal cooperation in Europe: Introduction to the symposium
Paving the (Hard) Way for Regional Partnerships: Evidence from Portugal
A fundamental dilemma which troubles advocates of interinstitutional partnerships in regional development pertains to the extent to which partnerships enhance the effectiveness of governance processes and outcomes. This dilemma is particularly relevant in contexts that lack strong cohesive regional development alliances, such as the Portuguese case. This article aims to shed light on the debate regarding the role of partnerships in regional devel…
Local political leaders and context awareness: Identifying perceptions of autonomy and efficacy
Leadership theories fail to explain how leaders acquire and interpret context. This article claims that political leadership styles articulate a choice of action that results from the leader's discerned possibilities to act. In order to explore these interpreted contextual determinants of leadership styles and the degree to which “possibility” has an influence over them, our research used a multiple case study design, with extensive interviews. F…
The Distinctiveness of Democratic Political Leadership
One recognises that political leadership still makes a difference. However, scholarship seems incapable of offering the proper tools to provide further and relevant understanding on the theme, particularly when we consider liberal democracy's current trends, namely its egalitarian ethos and the personalisation of politics. One of its key features, even in strongly controlled democracies, with tight systems of checks and balances, is the ascendanc…
Local government and the bailout: Reform singularities in Portugal
Portugal is working on the reform of its local government. Although amalgamation was one of the recommended strategies, as a consequence of the European Union/International Monetary Fund bailout process, an alternative approach has been suggested. This reform is mostly a development of inter-municipal cooperation mechanisms combined with partial devolution strategies. However, as the bailout agreement was its main catalyst, the urgency to cut pub…
Facilitative Mayors in Complex Environments: Why Political Will Matters
Under certain circumstances the style of leadership of mayors can be the result of their context perceptions and their sense of political autonomy and efficacy. This assessment indicates that the political action of the mayor discloses a particular style of leadership that derives from his/her political will. This article suggests an analysis of political will that intends to explain why local leaders adopt facilitative styles of leadership. In t…
Local political leaders and context awareness: Identifying perceptions of autonomy and efficacy
Leadership theories fail to explain how leaders acquire and interpret context. This article claims that political leadership styles articulate a choice of action that results from the leader's discerned possibilities to act. In order to explore these interpreted contextual determinants of leadership styles and the degree to which “possibility” has an influence over them, our research used a multiple case study design, with extensive interviews. F…
Paving the (Hard) Way for Regional Partnerships: Evidence from Portugal
A fundamental dilemma which troubles advocates of interinstitutional partnerships in regional development pertains to the extent to which partnerships enhance the effectiveness of governance processes and outcomes. This dilemma is particularly relevant in contexts that lack strong cohesive regional development alliances, such as the Portuguese case. This article aims to shed light on the debate regarding the role of partnerships in regional devel…
Sustainability measurement of product-service systems: Brazilian case studies about electric car-sharing
Modifying the traditional production system and the culture of consumption is necessary to achieve a sustainable society. The product-service system (PSS) business model allows companies to progressively add services to physical products, thus promoting more pro-sustainable business outcomes. The purpose of this work is to verify how a PSS model can contribute to sustainability by analyzing two electric car-sharing projects using a set of five fa…
Inter-municipal cooperation in Europe: Introduction to the symposium
Intermunicipal cooperation: The quest for governance capacity
Intermunicipal cooperation is being increasingly adopted in various countries to cope with the dilemmas of territorial scale and resource rationing. Despite the pressures towards the reshaping of administrative boundaries, little is known about the capacity of intermunicipal associations to function as effective, legitimate and resilient policy actors. This article aims to contribute to this debate by addressing two interrelated dimensions. First…
Independence and Variational Bewley Preferences: A Note
Dans cet article nous étudions l’axiome d’indépendance dans un contexte de prise de décision dans l’incertain. Nous proposons une caractérisation de cet axiome qui utilise une propriété que nous appelons Weight Independence . De plus, nous étudions la relation entre l’axiome d’indépendance et le modèle de préférences variationnelles à la Bewley de Faro [2015]. Nous montrons que ces préférences satisfont une forme faible d’indépendance que nous ap…
Local State-Society Relations in European Countries: Main Findings
Explanatory models of regional innovation performance in Europe: Policy implications for regions
Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialization (RIS3) was integrated as a key piece of the cohesion policy for the European Union (EU) for 2014–2020. During the recent years, more than 120 RIS3 have been developed, being a large-scale EU experience aimed to develop innovation-driven economic transformations at national and regional levels. The objective of this article is to explore the models that best explain innovative employment …
Voice, responsiveness, and alternative policy venues: An analysis of citizen complaints against the local government to the national Ombudsman
The Ombudsman is one of the most relevant and institutionalized tools to give voice to citizens, so they can express their dissatisfaction with local public services. The literature has yet to produce a systematic explanation for the variation in complaints to the national Ombudsman. This article uses classic literature from public administration and public policy to consider arguments of voice, responsiveness and alternative policy venues concer…
Assessing the intensity of cooperation: A Study of Joint Delegation of Municipal Functions to Inter-Municipal Associations
Talking is cheap, at least in the short term; elected officials may profess their preferences for IMC and yet deny IMA organisations the necessary resources to fulfil their missions. Driven by a focus on revealed preferences for inter-municipal cooperation, the article aims to answer two questions: Why do some IMA exhibit a high level of commitment on the part of their local government members whereas others remain underutilised, reflecting a cho…
Territorial cohesion: Discussing the mismatch between conceptual definitions and the understanding of local and intra-regional public decision-makers
The European Union’s Cohesion Policy aims at strengthening economic, social and territorial cohesion to correct imbalances between countries and regions. However, European Union policy was expressed unevenly, and asymmetries grew at different scales. Therefore, it has raised discussions on territorial cohesion, which looks much different on the ground than in its theoretical design. This paper confronts this conceptual rationale with the percepti…
Institutional arrangements for water reuse: Assessing challenges for the transition to water circularity
Water scarcity and security drive attention to water reuse in policy and business. However, water reuse may generate new water loops and challenge water governance with new and different types of water, risks, involved actors, and responsibilities. These challenges demand robust institutional arrangements related to water governance. This article assesses the institutional arrangements associated with four case studies in Spain, Italy, Croatia, a…
The Inner Functioning of Local Governance Networks in Centralized Countries: A ‘Brave New World’
Local governance networks are increasingly seen as the big idea to cope with issues that are complex enough in scope and scale to require a diversity of expertise and resources. While conventional narrative has posited that local networks are optimal for addressing a range of policy problems, and enhancing democratic participation, scarce attention has been devoted to understanding their inner working. A relevant gap in the literature pertains to…
Top-down” local government mergers: Political and institutional factors facilitating radical amalgamation reforms
Why are some countries able to go ahead with comprehensive top-down local government amalgamation reforms, despite the many challenges such a reform entails? So far, we have limited theoretical and empirical understanding of how central governments manage to adopt such reforms. Drawing on different theoretical frameworks around public policy as well as research into territorial reforms, this article presents key political and institutional factor…
Pre-conditions and barriers for territorial innovation through smart specialization strategies: The case of the lagging Centro region of Portugal
This research aims to understand the relevant pre-conditions and barriers for territorial innovation behind the Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3) of a lagging European Union (EU) region. For that purpose, a Delphi was conducted to a panel of experts responsible for the design of the RIS3 of the Centro region of Portugal. Consensus was reached on the role of determinant factors for territorial innovation, but the o…
What is spatial planning saying? A conceptual and methodological framework to assess the institutionalization of nature using critical discourse analysis
Spatial planning policies are fundamental blocks for the implementation of sustainable development goals. Still, despite the growing adoption of environmental proxies, as it is nature-based solutions, the study of their institutionalization in policy and spatial planning is in the early stages. Simultaneously, the use of discursive and interpretative methods to unfold the social structures related to environmental issues is growing, nonetheless, …
Exploring the role of inter-municipal cooperation for promoting water circular economy: Insights from a Southern European country
This article analyses the role of inter-municipal cooperation (IMC) as a governance model in promoting water circular economy (WCE) and water reuse practices. Despite the potential benefits offered by IMC, little is known about how could contribute to fostering WCE adoption. The article develops and uses a framework to assess the role of IMC in advancing WCE strategies, addressing three key dimensions: involvement of IMC in advancing WCE, robust …
Institutional challenges in water reuse and circularity: Insights from co-creation processes in Southern Europe and Middle East
The transition to the water circular economy (WCE) requires several stakeholders' awareness, articulation, and action involving complex governance concerns. As a participatory approach to identifying problems, designing solutions, and implementing strategic actions, the co-creation process should support stakeholder involvement to adjust existing institutional arrangements to foster the WCE. This article designs and applies a co-creation process …
Identifying and exploring ‘agency features’ in decision-making processes aimed at urban sustainability transformation
An urgent transformation towards sustainability is needed in socio-ecological-technical systems. Cities play a major role in leveraging change to inform local and global sustainability and resilience challenges. Urban sustainability transformation calls for more emphasis on the agency’s role in decision-making processes for urban governance. An integrative literature review was conducted to identify and explore agency features in the decision-mak…
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