This work has as objective to present a previous evaluation of techniques and guidelines of the Urban Drawing of a Ecovillage in way that, they serve as subsidy for elaboration of technician-scientific referential for the ...

In the last 50 years, the Brazilian urban growth process is compromising in many ways the environmental quality of the cities. Thus, among several impacts existents, it s possible to notice an inadequate occupation of river ...

An adequate management of the water supply and sewerage urban systems can reduce several negative impacts. It can also bring positive results to the environment, society and economy. The concept of sustainability tries ...

This research was prepared with the propose of showing the reflections about the which ones ruled this research. It seeks to supply a conceptual frame that expresses the matters that permeated that processors investigation ...

The lack of sanitation systems is one of the main causes of insalubrity and environmental degradation. The term sustainability has provoked a debate in the literature, derived, mainly with the environmental concern and the ...

Water, which is needed by all living beings, is considered an economic and environmental possession of invaluable value to the life of the planet. It is found in Brazil as a possession of public domain, according to the ...

This dissertation initiates with a brief historical revision of Brazilian industrialization process from the end of nineteenth century on. The industrialization process, and consequence rural exodus, produced several ...

This work inserts in the debate of the sustainable local development, specifically about the formularization of the public politics of social habitation that generate changes of regional development and participation of ...

Recent debates about urban development have introduced sustainability as an important principle to consider solutions to socioenvironnmental problems. In the other hand, changes on traditional concepts of urban management ...

The sustainable development concept has been used as a basic framework of urban planning processes. Due to its subjective components there were cases where the sustainability principles were used as marketing instruments, ...