Since the 1960s, the Upper Ribeira State Tourist Park - PETAR - receives visitation in its caves. However, the combination of factors, such as the delicate environment, fragile management and vulnerable security culminated ...

Public entities use the legal means to acquire their durable goods, which are acquired through bids, regulated by Federal Law No. 8.666 / 1993. In order for these bids to reach a higher level of success, it is necessary ...

Many natural areas of high biological diversity and endemism, such as those in the Atlantic Forest domain in the southeastern state of São Paulo, have been degraded to meet man's need to convert these areas into agricultural ...

The Ecological-Economic Zoning (EEZ) formulation must, necessarily, be a participatory process, comprising the methodological adaptations according to the regional peculiarities. This research aimed to study, from the ...

Among the environmental programs implemented in regions potentially impacted by oil activity is the Beach Monitoring Program (PMP). Its objective is to evaluate the possible impacts caused by the exploration, production ...

The Morro do Osso Natural Park is a Conservation Unit located in the middle of the intense urbanization of Porto Alegre, capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The area is rich in conserved environments and of fundamental ...

The concern about sustainability, a comprehensive and multidisciplinary theme, it is effective in several areas of knowledge and in different sectors of society, since everyone, directly or indirectly, contributes to the ...

The Biotic Integrity Index has been an effective biomonitoring tool utilizing freshwater fish assemblages. In tropical and subtropical countries, however, its use over time has been developing, although adaptation in these ...

In Brazil, the sanitation sector exhibits a lack of attention to the quality of water resources, causing, in the last decades, pressures that have compromised the quality and availability of water for the population. The ...

In Brazil, semi-deciduous seasonal forest (SSF) is one of the physiognomies of Atlantic Forests, and sited between the Atlantic Forest and Savanna Biomes. Over the last decades, SSF has been fragmented by use of the soil ...