**Author details**

Sérgio António Neves Lousada1,2,3, João Pedro Gouveia1 and Rui Alexandre Castanho2,3,4,5,6\*

1 Department of Civil Engineering and Geology, Faculty of Exact Sciences and Engineering, University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal

2 VALORIZA - Research Centre for Endogenous Resource Valorization, Portalegre, Portugal

3 Institute of Research on Territorial Governance and Inter-Organizational Cooperation, Poland

4 Environmental Resources Analysis Research Group (ARAM), University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain

5 ICAAM—Institute for Agrarian and Environmental Sciences, Évora, Portugal

6 Faculty of Applied Sciences, WSB University, Poland

\*Address all correspondence to: acastanho@wsb.edu.pl

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