Isabel Boavida

Biographic Data

ID5644539
NAMEIsabel Boavida
GIVEN NAMESIsabel
FAMILY NAMEBoavida
SIGNATUREBOAVIDA I
ORCID0000-0001-6005-3751
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • The power of hydropeaking

    Open AccessTerese E Venus, Oreoluwa Ola et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2025References: 3

    The operational practice of "hydropeaking" allows hydropower plants to cover peaks and deficits in energy demand, but it also impacts river ecosystems. The assessment of hydropeaking impacts plays an important role in safeguarding ecosystem services, but is challenging due to the relative importance of impacts at different sites. To compare impacts in hydropeaking rivers, we elicit expert judgment on the relative impacts of hydropeaking on river …

  • Pedro Páez’s History of Ethiopia 1622

    Isabel Boavida, Christopher J Tribe et al.BOOKPedro Páez's History of Ethiopia,…2020

    This book, in two volumes, contains an annotated English translation of the História da Ethiópia by the Spanish Jesuit missionary priest Pedro Páez (Pêro Pais in Portuguese), 1564-1622, who worked in the Portuguese padroado missions, first in India and then in Ethiopia, long thought to be the kingdom of the legendary Prester John. His history of Ethiopia was written in Portuguese in the last ten years of his life and survives in only two manuscri…

  • The Indigenous and the Foreign in Christian Ethiopian Art

    Isabel Boavida, Manuel João RamosBOOKThe indigenous and the foreign in…2017

    In the rural plateaux of northern Ethiopia, one can still find scattered ruins of monumental buildings that are evidently alien to the country's ancient architectural tradition. This little-known and rarely studied architectural heritage is a silent witness to a fascinating if equivocal cultural encounter that took place in the 16th-17th centuries between Catholic Europeans and Orthodox Ethiopians. The Indigenous and the Foreign in Christian Ethi…

  • Celestino da Silva, a rede de postos militares e a ocupação colonial efetiva de Timor português (1895–1905)

    Isabel Boavida, Isabel Boavida Isabel BoavidaARTICLEJournal of Asian History2014

    Isabel Boavida, Celestino da Silva, a rede de postos militares e a ocupação colonial efetiva de Timor português (1895–1905): Um processo (des)construtivo, Journal of Asian History, Vol. 48, No. 2 (2014), pp. 227-261

  • Ambiguous Legitimacy

    Manuel João Ramos, Isabel BoavidaARTICLEAnnales d Ethiopie2005

    Joao Ramos Manuel, Boavida Isabel. Ambiguous Legitimacy: the Legend of the Queen of Sheba in Popular Ethiopian Painting. In: Annales d'Ethiopie. Volume 21, année 2005. pp. 85-92