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 ...

Throughout history, indigenous peoples have fought an intense struggle for recognition and respect: first by right to the possession of their original territories; later, for independence and self-management over them. To ...

This research deals with the analysis of the technical document called the Conceptual Project for Facilitating Equipment in Caves (CP). The CP was an unfolding of the Speleological Management Plans (SMP), whose objective ...

Potentially toxic metals are among the most common contaminants in waters and their origin may be both natural and anthropogenic. As soon as they come into contact with the aquatic ecosystem, the metals can be transported ...

The defense and preservation of the environment are state duties and the fundamental right of all individuals, including assured to the future generations. With regard to the normative principle of constitutional order ...

Facing the unbridled anthropic actions, the fragmentation and disturbance of urban forest fragments have been causing, on a global scale, the decline of species populations, genetic losses, extinction processes, reduction ...

The recognition of the landscape’s geomorphologic aspects may fundament a proposal of urban occupation that considers the hydrological dynamics of a given area, favors the maintenance of the infiltration and reduction ...