Focus and Scope

Scope: To disseminate engineering and science applied to territorial development through technical-scientific articles which discuss the local values of a particular region and recognize these values ​​as resources to achieve resilience and sustainability. Our goals are:

• To value work (Labor) and innovation (Engenho) that result from academic research or professional experience.
• To highlight productive and cultural processes which integrate water and territorial systems.
• To promote resilience and sustainability to these processes and systems by conserving the heritage and the landscape, keeping in mind the local development.
• To provide specific knowledge on urban and rural planning, on territorial planning, on water management (city-country system) and on integrated management of watersheds , as well as its water and its territorial resources.

Objectives: To publish, with no cost, excellent articles in Portuguese, Spanish and English, integrating areas of Engineering for territorial planning and sustainable local development.

Target audience: Technicians, scientists, academics, managers and members, companies' and social organizations' directors, citizens, professionals and researchers who work with Labor & Engenho's areas of expertise, which are:

• urban and regional planning;
• urbanism and land use planning;
• urban and rural architecture and engineering;
• environmental heritage and cultural landscape;
• local development, resilience and sustainability;
• climate change applied to agriculture, environment and related areas.

Peer Review Process

Publication Frequency

Labor & Engenho [ISSN:2176-8846] is a quarterly journal since 2010. It was annual from 2007 to 2009.