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Are citizens and territories represented in Local government in Portugal?
Public policies may change public behaviour and demographic dynamics. Government has the responsibility to ensure economic, social and territorial cohesion, territorial planning and sustained development, as it was written into the 1976 Constitution. However, by proximity, it’s the local government’s responsibility to ensure these rights in its territory and to provide the best conditions to improve the quality of life of its citizens. At the local level, there are new and improved ways for citizen participation, as a result of legislation innovation, such as independent citizen groups, as well as participative budgets. This research focuses on urban / rural contrast and the responses of central and local government to society’s new challenges, such as climate change and water scarcity, new forms of extractivism, including intensive agriculture and mining, investments in tourism, gentrification and the real estate problem, depopulation of interior regions and demographic pyramid turned upside down, immigration and new labour conditions, among others. NGOs and citizens associations are raising awareness on many of these issues. Are central and local government providing appropriate answers? Is our territory protected from the risks posed by these challenges? With the goal of analysing citizen participation and its practical results, several examples are presented of citizen associations and their actions toward the defence of their territories and quality of life, compared to the responses of local representatives regarding these concerns. ; This research has been financed by National Funds of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) within the project UID/00758 and the Research Centre in Political Science, University of Minho/ University of Évora. https://doi.org/10.54499/CEECINST/00018/2021/CP2806/CT0022
Are citizens and territories represented in Local government in Portugal?
Public policies may change public behaviour and demographic dynamics. Government has the responsibility to ensure economic, social and territorial cohesion, territorial planning and sustained development, as it was written into the 1976 Constitution. However, by proximity, it’s the local government’s responsibility to ensure these rights in its territory and to provide the best conditions to improve the quality of life of its citizens. At the local level, there are new and improved ways for citizen participation, as a result of legislation innovation, such as independent citizen groups, as well as participative budgets. This research focuses on urban / rural contrast and the responses of central and local government to society’s new challenges, such as climate change and water scarcity, new forms of extractivism, including intensive agriculture and mining, investments in tourism, gentrification and the real estate problem, depopulation of interior regions and demographic pyramid turned upside down, immigration and new labour conditions, among others. NGOs and citizens associations are raising awareness on many of these issues. Are central and local government providing appropriate answers? Is our territory protected from the risks posed by these challenges? With the goal of analysing citizen participation and its practical results, several examples are presented of citizen associations and their actions toward the defence of their territories and quality of life, compared to the responses of local representatives regarding these concerns. ; This research has been financed by National Funds of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) within the project UID/00758 and the Research Centre in Political Science, University of Minho/ University of Évora. https://doi.org/10.54499/CEECINST/00018/2021/CP2806/CT0022
Are citizens and territories represented in Local government in Portugal?
Almeida, Maria Antónia Figueiredo Pires (Autor:in)
07.03.2025
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