This thesis is about contributory participation in the elaboration and updating of urban planning and its goal is to demonstrate the influence of contributory management in the transformation processes which currently ...

The fact that Ribeirão do Feijão basin (243.16km²) is a source of water supply for the city of São Carlos, the disorderly and, many times, chaotic urban sprawl, and the occurrence in its majority of the Botucatu Formation, ...

This research proposes, based on the recognition of the right to water as a human right, inseparable from the right to life and other human rights, by the General Assembly of the United Nations, to investigate the possibility ...

Understanding the mechanisms that involves the relations between plants and the abiotic environment is vital for the knowledge of the successional dynamics of native vegetation in degraded areas. Several studies have ...

The National Policy of Solid Waste (NPSW), instituted by the federal law nº 12.305/2010, establishes the guiding principles, legal instruments and objectives to order the actions and practices of waste management in Brazil. ...

Throughfall (TF) is affected by different biotic and meteorological factors that can interact, resulting in high variability in estimates, increasing the uncertainty in hydrological models and the forecast of environmental ...

Biological, physical and chemical characteristics of the soil are environmental filters that strongly influence the composition of the plant communities. The knowledge of the effect of soil conditions on the survival and ...

Anthropic activities generate impacts to the environment, among them, the biodiversity loss is highlighted. Protected Areas have emerged as a way to protect the remaining biodiversity, but they suffer from external ...

All over the world today, there are more people living in cities than in the countryside. The accelerated urbanization associated with the socioenvironmental impacts of the capitalist mode of production is presented as one ...

Cinema can be used for many purposes nowadays, such as: entertaining, educating and also as an important device able of spreading knowledge, provoking reflections on relevant themes, such as the water issue, its scarcity ...