Paula Castro
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paula Castro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paula |
| FAMILY NAME | Castro |
| SIGNATURE | CASTRO P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5818-301X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 137 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Climate agreement-making across negotiation and non-negotiation spaces: How states participate in the UN climate negotiations
Participation in multilateral negotiations such as those on climate change is key to understanding negotiation processes and outcomes. Despite its importance, participation – what negotiators actually do – remains understudied and ill understood. We address this gap by examining participation in UN climate negotiations. Specifically, we collect data across all 198 Parties and 58 negotiation sessions (subsidiary body meetings, SBs, and Conferences…
Path Analysis With Mixed-Scale Variables: Categorical ML, Least Squares, and Bayesian Estimations
In applied research across education, the social and behavioral sciences, and medicine, path models frequently incorporate both continuous and ordinal manifest variables to predict binary outcomes. This study employs Monte Carlo simulations to evaluate six estimators: robust maximum likelihood with probit and logit links (MLR-probit, MLR-logit), mean- and variance-adjusted weighted and unweighted least squares (WLSMV, ULSMV), and Bayesian methods…
New Kids on the (University) Block: Narratives of Place, Political Participation and Change by Students in Mobility
University students that move to study can constitute themselves as political actors in their new city, and regarding their new communities, by stably engaging as activists in local collectives, participating in occupations or place‐demonstrations. However, students in these mobility conditions are still seen as temporary city users and their engagement with local institutions and communities is understudied. Drawing on social representations and…
Expert retrospective on a decade of the Paris Agreement
Negotiation Capacity in un Climate Negotiations: Compensating Delegation Size with Delegation Composition
Despite the formal equality of all states, in practice, international negotiations are highly unequal. In particular, small delegation size limits countries’ capacity to meaningfully engage with complex global processes. Yet, delegation size is an insufficient indicator of negotiation capacity. We argue that we also need to pay attention to delegation composition. Indeed, we propose that small delegation size can be compensated by including non-g…
Making sense of absent-yet-present others: Representing the liminal vegetative state beyond life and death
Socio-economic characterization of Portuguese kiwi growers: Facing current social and sustainability challenges
This paper reports a socio-economic characterization of the Portuguese kiwifruit sector. A survey was applied between 2019 and 2020 to a sample of 94 kiwifruit farmers (males 76%, females 24%). 72 percent of the participants declare that kiwi cultivation is a complementary occupation characterized by an intergenerational pattern (25.6%). Almost 70 percent of the orchards are under 5 ha, and 26.8 percent declare that their company does not have a …
Beyond Aosis: Small island states’ presence and participation at COP27
Small islands are at the frontline of climate change – and of climate negotiations. Yet while the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) has allowed small islands to collectively become a key player in UN climate negotiations, a focus on the group level masks important inequalities within AOSIS. This paper hence goes beyond the level of AOSIS to understand the power and agency of small island states in the global climate regime. We are intereste…
How Does Polycentric Engagement Relate to Countries’ NDC Ambition and Mitigation Policy Effort
Under the Paris Agreement, global climate governance has become decidedly more polycentric. However, it is still debated whether the turn toward greater polycentricity leads to more effectiveness in delivering public goods like climate change mitigation. This article argues that engagement in polycentric climate governance is linked to both more ambitious mitigation targets and stronger mitigation policy effort at the national level. Empirically,…
Engaging participatory mapping for co-management and spatial depiction of nature’s contributions to people in the Portuguese biosphere reserves
UNESCO Biosphere Reserves (BRs) are pivotal for studying and fostering sustainable interactions between people and nature. In this study, a public participatory geographical information system (PPGIS) approach was employed targeting key stakeholders across the 12 Portuguese BRs, to map their place-based perception over Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP). Stakeholders actively mapped NCP within their BRs, highlighting Habitat creation and main…
Invasive plants and agri-food waste extracts as sustainable alternatives for the pre-emergence urban weed control in Portugal Central Region
The continued use of synthetic herbicides to control weeds leads to environmental pollution and health issues. Consequently, chemical formulations have been increasingly banned. However, sustainable solutions are lacking in the market. Alternatively, valorisation of phytotoxic waste to reduce the herbicides use promotes sustainability, meeting circular economy. We aimed at assessing the herbicidal potential of aqueous extracts of waste from the m…
Freirean dialogic action in Brazilian public schools: A Lesson Study contribution to teacher development
Lisbon's unsustainable tourism intensification: Contributions from social representations to understanding a depoliticised press discourse and its consequences
Resistance to tourism intensification and its unsustainability has grown. However, decision-makers in many cities continue to present tourism and the political and legislative options supporting it as an inevitable and consensual path for economic growth, concealing competing choices, voices, and values. The media can follow, presenting the issue in a depoliticised way: i.e., by foregrounding undiscussed dominant discourses, leaving little space …
A framework for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in university programmes
Small-scale artisanal fisheries and its networks: The case of Arte Xávega in Portugal
The Institutionalization of a Cleavage: How Differential Treatment Affects State Behavior in the Climate Negotiations
Differential treatment is a key norm in multilateral environmental agreements. Its main objective is to increase compliance and reduce the free-rider problem by apportioning the costs and benefits of implementation more equitably across the parties in an agreement. The question of how to differentiate those burdens is inextricably linked to national interests, and while in some instances differential treatment is well designed and facilitates coo…
Covid-19: The impact of a global crisis on sustainable development research
The crisis caused by COVID-19 has affected research in a variety of ways. As far as research on sustainable development is concerned, the lockdown has significantly disrupted the usual communication channels and, among other things, has led to the cancellation of meetings and long-planned events. It has also led to delay in the delivery of research projects. There is a gap in the literature in regards to how a global crisis influences sustainabil…
Past and future of burden sharing in the climate regime: Positions and ambition from a top-down to a bottom-up governance system
National interests and coalition positions on climate change: A text-based analysis
Coalitions play a central role in the international negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. By getting together, countries join resources in defending their interests and positions. But building coalitions may come at a cost. Coalition positions are a result of compromise between their members, and thus the increase in bargaining power may come at a price if the preferences of their members are heterogeneous.…
Coalitions in the Climate Change Negotiations
From legal to normative: A combined social representations and sociocognitive approach to diagnosing cultural change triggered by new environmental laws
Inconsistency between the expressed support for resource-conservation ideas and behaviours has emphasized the need to develop a better understanding of the psychosocial processes through which formal laws (reified universe) also become informal norms (consensual universe). Experimental paradigms of the sociocognitive approach to social norms are able to assess if cultural change fostered by the legal/reified universe has been incorporated by soci…
Successfully Contesting the Policy Sphere: Examining Through the Press a Case of Local Protests Changing New Ecological Laws
It is crucial to gain better insights into how psychosocial processes can limit the power of the political/legislative sphere for promoting social change through new laws. One form of accomplishing this is by illuminating the arguments and the content and value of social representations at play in cases in which the public sphere succeeds in contesting new laws. In this article, we explore a case of successful resistance to new ecological laws in…
How to promote conservation behaviours: The combined role of environmental education and commitment
This study tested the influence of both environmental education (EE) and commitment interventions among teenagers for promoting energy and water conservation at home. Conservation behaviours were measured in two ways – directly and through questionnaires – prior to and after the interventions. Results indicate (1) EE participants may have saved more energy than non-participants and (2) those signing a public commitment saved more energy and water…
Creación musical chilena: Cuadro sinóptico de obras de compositores chilenos interpretadas durante el segundo semestre (octubre 2015-marzo 2016) preparado por Nancy Sattler Jiménez
los intrpretes (abreviado como Int) y cuando sea pertinente se indican los solistas (abreviados como Sol). Si una obra se repite ms de una vez, no se reitera el ttulo, sino que la secuencia de informacin se seala desde la fecha de presentacin en adelante. En orden alfabtico las abreviaturas son las siguientes
Common But Differentiated Responsibilities Beyond the Nation State: How Is Differential Treatment Addressed in Transnational Climate Governance Initiatives
Many multilateral environmental agreements have adopted differentiated rules for different countries, based on the recognition of the 'common but differentiated responsibilities' (CBDRs) of states. By establishing two rigid groups of countries with and without emissions reduction obligations, the intergovernmental climate regime represents the most extreme case of such differentiation. The regime has struggled to overcome this rigidity and the re…
Climate policy innovation in the South – Domestic and international determinants of renewable energy policies in developing and emerging countries
A Social Representations Approach To The Communication Between Different Spheres: An Analysis Of The Impacts Of Two Discursive Formats
This paper discusses the potential of the notions of reification and consensualization as developed by the theory of social representations as analytical tools for addressing the communication between the lay and scientific spheres. Social Representations Theory started by offering an over‐sharp distinction between the reified and the consensual universes of which science and common sense, respectively, were presented as paradigmatic. This paper,…
Legal Innovation for Social Change: Exploring Change and Resistance to Different Types of Sustainability Laws
In this article I argue that a desirable future direction for political psychology would be to pay more attention to social‐psychological processes involved in the response to innovative laws, in particular those devised with sustainability and environmental protection aims. This involves taking into account the following premises: (1) innovation and change are not unitary phenomena; instead there are different types of innovation; (2) legal and …
Genetically Modified Organisms in the Portuguese Press: Thematization and anchoring
The main aim of this paper is to examine how the recent themata developments in Social Representations Theory can be linked with the classical process involved in the construction of social representations—anchoring—, as well as with the communicative modalities that are part of the theory since its inception. This was done through a study of the representation of GMOs in the Portuguese press, taken as an opportunity for addressing the issues rel…
Successfully Contesting the Policy Sphere: Examining Through the Press a Case of Local Protests Changing New Ecological Laws
It is crucial to gain better insights into how psychosocial processes can limit the power of the political/legislative sphere for promoting social change through new laws. One form of accomplishing this is by illuminating the arguments and the content and value of social representations at play in cases in which the public sphere succeeds in contesting new laws. In this article, we explore a case of successful resistance to new ecological laws in…
Constructed peer groups and path dependence in international organizations: The case of the international climate change negotiations
Past and future of burden sharing in the climate regime: Positions and ambition from a top-down to a bottom-up governance system
National interests and coalition positions on climate change: A text-based analysis
Coalitions play a central role in the international negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. By getting together, countries join resources in defending their interests and positions. But building coalitions may come at a cost. Coalition positions are a result of compromise between their members, and thus the increase in bargaining power may come at a price if the preferences of their members are heterogeneous.…
Psycho‐Social Processes in Dealing with Legal Innovation in the Community: Insights from Biodiversity Conservation
Mitigation measures for tackling the consequences of a changing climate will involve efforts of various types including the conservation of affected ecosystems. For this, communities throughout the world will be called on to change habits of land and water use. Many of these changes will emerge from the multilevel governance tools now commonly used for environmental protection. In this article, some tenets of a social psychology of legal innovati…
The Institutionalization of a Cleavage: How Differential Treatment Affects State Behavior in the Climate Negotiations
Differential treatment is a key norm in multilateral environmental agreements. Its main objective is to increase compliance and reduce the free-rider problem by apportioning the costs and benefits of implementation more equitably across the parties in an agreement. The question of how to differentiate those burdens is inextricably linked to national interests, and while in some instances differential treatment is well designed and facilitates coo…
How to promote conservation behaviours: The combined role of environmental education and commitment
This study tested the influence of both environmental education (EE) and commitment interventions among teenagers for promoting energy and water conservation at home. Conservation behaviours were measured in two ways – directly and through questionnaires – prior to and after the interventions. Results indicate (1) EE participants may have saved more energy than non-participants and (2) those signing a public commitment saved more energy and water…
The impact of discounting emission credits on the competitiveness of different CDM host countries
Covid-19: The impact of a global crisis on sustainable development research
The crisis caused by COVID-19 has affected research in a variety of ways. As far as research on sustainable development is concerned, the lockdown has significantly disrupted the usual communication channels and, among other things, has led to the cancellation of meetings and long-planned events. It has also led to delay in the delivery of research projects. There is a gap in the literature in regards to how a global crisis influences sustainabil…
Pensar a natureza e o ambiente: Alguns contributos a partir da Teoria das Representações Sociais
Este artigo apresenta dois estudos conduzidos em Portugal, sob a orientação da Teoria das Representações Sociais (TRS), que analisaram como os portugueses pensam e falam sobre o ambiente e a natureza. É primeiro apresentada uma perspectiva geral do campo de estudos das crenças e atitudes em relação ao ambiente e à natureza e são esboçadas as ideias da TRS que podem contribuir para suprir algumas das suas lacunas. Depois é sumarizado um primeiro e…
Perante a Pneumônica: A epidemia e as respostas das autoridades de saúde pública e dos agentes políticos em Portugal (1918-1919)
A epidemia de gripe pneumónica ocorreu em Portugal num momento em que o país que enfrentava enormes dificuldades de natureza económica, política e sanitária. Chega a um país rural e pobre, envolvido na Grande Guerra de 1914-18, e que se debate com a carência de géneros e a carestia de vida, e com uma fortíssima crise social e política. Apesar de o país estar habituado a sucessivas epidemias, o carácter imprevisto e violento da pneumónica (estima-…
Pensar a natureza e o ambiente: Alguns contributos a partir da Teoria das Representações Sociais
Este artigo apresenta dois estudos conduzidos em Portugal, sob a orientação da Teoria das Representações Sociais (TRS), que analisaram como os portugueses pensam e falam sobre o ambiente e a natureza. É primeiro apresentada uma perspectiva geral do campo de estudos das crenças e atitudes em relação ao ambiente e à natureza e são esboçadas as ideias da TRS que podem contribuir para suprir algumas das suas lacunas. Depois é sumarizado um primeiro e…
Hegemonia e polémica na memória social do descobrimento do Brasil
Este texto procura cumprir três objectivos. O primeiro é apresentar a história e os objectivos do projecto de cuja realização resultaram os artigos que integram este número temático da revista Psicologia - o projecto O descobrimento do Brasil 500 anos depois: memória social e representações de portugueses e brasileiros. O segundo é propor um breve enquadramento para a questão que estruturou este estudo - a análise das relações entre representaçõe…
Genetically Modified Organisms in the Portuguese Press: Thematization and anchoring
The main aim of this paper is to examine how the recent themata developments in Social Representations Theory can be linked with the classical process involved in the construction of social representations—anchoring—, as well as with the communicative modalities that are part of the theory since its inception. This was done through a study of the representation of GMOs in the Portuguese press, taken as an opportunity for addressing the issues rel…
Social Representation, Change and Resistance: On the Difficulties of Generalizing New Norms
This article addresses the difficulties of generalizing new norms and practices, focusing on the role of the legal system for proposing change and innovation to society. It first presents some contributions offered by the social representational approach for understanding these issues, based on the assumptions of the interdependence both of change and stability, and of the social and the individual. Afterwards it is argued that for advancing the …
A Social Representations Approach To The Communication Between Different Spheres: An Analysis Of The Impacts Of Two Discursive Formats
This paper discusses the potential of the notions of reification and consensualization as developed by the theory of social representations as analytical tools for addressing the communication between the lay and scientific spheres. Social Representations Theory started by offering an over‐sharp distinction between the reified and the consensual universes of which science and common sense, respectively, were presented as paradigmatic. This paper,…
Perante a Pneumônica: A epidemia e as respostas das autoridades de saúde pública e dos agentes políticos em Portugal (1918-1919)
A epidemia de gripe pneumónica ocorreu em Portugal num momento em que o país que enfrentava enormes dificuldades de natureza económica, política e sanitária. Chega a um país rural e pobre, envolvido na Grande Guerra de 1914-18, e que se debate com a carência de géneros e a carestia de vida, e com uma fortíssima crise social e política. Apesar de o país estar habituado a sucessivas epidemias, o carácter imprevisto e violento da pneumónica (estima-…
The impact of discounting emission credits on the competitiveness of different CDM host countries
Psycho‐Social Processes in Dealing with Legal Innovation in the Community: Insights from Biodiversity Conservation
Mitigation measures for tackling the consequences of a changing climate will involve efforts of various types including the conservation of affected ecosystems. For this, communities throughout the world will be called on to change habits of land and water use. Many of these changes will emerge from the multilevel governance tools now commonly used for environmental protection. In this article, some tenets of a social psychology of legal innovati…
Legal Innovation for Social Change: Exploring Change and Resistance to Different Types of Sustainability Laws
In this article I argue that a desirable future direction for political psychology would be to pay more attention to social‐psychological processes involved in the response to innovative laws, in particular those devised with sustainability and environmental protection aims. This involves taking into account the following premises: (1) innovation and change are not unitary phenomena; instead there are different types of innovation; (2) legal and …
Climate policy innovation in the South – Domestic and international determinants of renewable energy policies in developing and emerging countries
Constructed peer groups and path dependence in international organizations: The case of the international climate change negotiations
Contributos para uma cartografia da investigação em psicologia em Portugal: Uma análise a partir dos trabalhos no V Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia
O presente artigo constitui um balanço do V Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia. Procurou-se, em primeiro lugar, analisar a distribuição temática e institucional da investigação apresentada, que se mostrou heterogénea e diversificada e, na sua grande maioria, realizada ou liderada por psicólogos vinculados a instituições universitárias. Foi também analisada a saliência dos diversos temas e a sua estrutura de associação, através da fre…
Técnico e cidadão, eis a questão: Um Caso De Participação Pública No Espaço Urbano
Neste trabalho pretendemos analisar uma controvérsia relativa ao património construído das cidades e à participação do público, que envolveu os sistemas técnico e leigo. Trata-se da controvérsia relativa ao Convento dos Inglesinhos, um conjunto patrimonial do século XVII que ocupa um quarteirão do Bairro Alto, um dos bairros mais emblemáticos de Lisboa, e para o qual está actualmente prevista a transformação num condomínio residencial fechado de …
O descobrimento do Brasil naimprensa portuguesa: Uma Vontade De Futuro
Este artigo tem dois objectivos principais. O primeiro é descrever a imagem da comemoração dos 500 anos do descobrimento do Brasil que a imprensa portuguesa nos ofereceu durante os anos de 1999 e 2000, com os conteúdos, fontes e sujeitos que privilegiou nas notícias que publicou, a fim de examinar quais os temas e os protagonistas que foram destacados, e quais os que ficaram na sombra. O segundo objectivo foi o de examinar o tratamento dado aos t…
Managing disagreement through yes, but … constructions: An argumentative analysis
The goal of this study is to examine the argumentative functions of concessive yes, but... constructions. Based on ( N = 22) interview transcripts, we examine the ways environmental activists negotiate their agreements and disagreements over climate change through yes, but... constructions. Starting from conversational analyses of such concessive sequences, we develop an account grounded in argumentative discourse analysis, notably pragma-dialect…
How to promote conservation behaviours: The combined role of environmental education and commitment
This study tested the influence of both environmental education (EE) and commitment interventions among teenagers for promoting energy and water conservation at home. Conservation behaviours were measured in two ways – directly and through questionnaires – prior to and after the interventions. Results indicate (1) EE participants may have saved more energy than non-participants and (2) those signing a public commitment saved more energy and water…
Creación musical chilena: Cuadro sinóptico de obras de compositores chilenos interpretadas durante el segundo semestre (octubre 2015-marzo 2016) preparado por Nancy Sattler Jiménez
los intrpretes (abreviado como Int) y cuando sea pertinente se indican los solistas (abreviados como Sol). Si una obra se repite ms de una vez, no se reitera el ttulo, sino que la secuencia de informacin se seala desde la fecha de presentacin en adelante. En orden alfabtico las abreviaturas son las siguientes
Common But Differentiated Responsibilities Beyond the Nation State: How Is Differential Treatment Addressed in Transnational Climate Governance Initiatives
Many multilateral environmental agreements have adopted differentiated rules for different countries, based on the recognition of the 'common but differentiated responsibilities' (CBDRs) of states. By establishing two rigid groups of countries with and without emissions reduction obligations, the intergovernmental climate regime represents the most extreme case of such differentiation. The regime has struggled to overcome this rigidity and the re…
Successfully Contesting the Policy Sphere: Examining Through the Press a Case of Local Protests Changing New Ecological Laws
It is crucial to gain better insights into how psychosocial processes can limit the power of the political/legislative sphere for promoting social change through new laws. One form of accomplishing this is by illuminating the arguments and the content and value of social representations at play in cases in which the public sphere succeeds in contesting new laws. In this article, we explore a case of successful resistance to new ecological laws in…
From legal to normative: A combined social representations and sociocognitive approach to diagnosing cultural change triggered by new environmental laws
Inconsistency between the expressed support for resource-conservation ideas and behaviours has emphasized the need to develop a better understanding of the psychosocial processes through which formal laws (reified universe) also become informal norms (consensual universe). Experimental paradigms of the sociocognitive approach to social norms are able to assess if cultural change fostered by the legal/reified universe has been incorporated by soci…
Covid-19: The impact of a global crisis on sustainable development research
The crisis caused by COVID-19 has affected research in a variety of ways. As far as research on sustainable development is concerned, the lockdown has significantly disrupted the usual communication channels and, among other things, has led to the cancellation of meetings and long-planned events. It has also led to delay in the delivery of research projects. There is a gap in the literature in regards to how a global crisis influences sustainabil…
Past and future of burden sharing in the climate regime: Positions and ambition from a top-down to a bottom-up governance system
National interests and coalition positions on climate change: A text-based analysis
Coalitions play a central role in the international negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. By getting together, countries join resources in defending their interests and positions. But building coalitions may come at a cost. Coalition positions are a result of compromise between their members, and thus the increase in bargaining power may come at a price if the preferences of their members are heterogeneous.…
Coalitions in the Climate Change Negotiations
A framework for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in university programmes
Political science (25 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Law (13 works) · Economics (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Climate change (10 works) · Negotiation (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Law (8 works)