The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is an instrumentfor integrating the environmental issue into strategic planningwith increasing the emphasis on impact assessment research in theworld. Although it is not mandatory in Brazil, there are applications andinitiatives for its formalization. The objective is to explore the Brazilianacademic research on SEA through quantitative and qualitative analysisof papers, theses, …

Strategic Environmental Assessment in Brazilian Academic Research Leia mais »

The thermal behavior of lakes and reservoirs determines the occurrence of stratification and mixing events, on a daily or seasonal pattern. In order to properly use and rely on mathematical models for the assessment of current or future scenarios, the model’s performance, limitation and biases must be well known by the modelist. This paper aims …

Assessing The Thermal Behavior Representation Of A Small-Polimitic-Tropical Lake With An One-Dimensional Model Leia mais »

Recent public policies in developing countries have emerged to address challenges of delivering water-related ecosystem services in urban areas. Some initiatives, such as the Brazilian Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change (BPACC) highlights sustainable urban drainage as a key strategy for promoting sustainable cities, including ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) measures. Despite the importance of these national …

Local Society Perception on Ecosystem Services as an Adaptation Strategy in Urban Stream Recovery Programs in the City of São Paulo, Brazil Leia mais »

Small hydropower plants (SHPs) are rapidly sprawling, both globally and across the Amazon’s free flowingrivers, threatening provision of ecosystem services, river connectivity, biodiversity conservation, and the livelihoods of indigenous and traditional communities. In Brazil, cumulative impacts of SHPs have been largely neglected in planning and policy instruments. In this perspective article, we highlight current policy …

Improving policies and instruments to address cumulative impacts of small hydropower in the Amazon Leia mais »

A Avaliação de Impacto Ambiental (AIA) surgiu no National EnvironmentalPolicy Act (Nepa) nos Estados Unidos, em 1969, criando a necessidadede os projetos do governo federal considerarem os impactossobre o meio ambiente na tomada de decisão. No Brasil, foi instituída em 1981como instrumento de política ambiental pela Política Nacional de Meio Ambiente(PNMA). Diversas regulamentações seguiram este …

Gestão Adaptativa na Etapa de Acompanhamento da Avaliação de Impacto Ambiental Leia mais »

Although hydropower companies and governments have promoted monetary-basedBenefit-Sharing Mechanisms alone as a vector of local development for flooded municipalities,it is not possible to identify this evidence in the scientific literature. The presentwork investigates the quantitative influence of Financial Compensation on HumanDevelopment Indexes (HDI) in flooded municipalities over 2000–2010. The econometricanalysis shows that there are no …

Evaluating Monetary-Based Benefit-Sharing as a Mechanism to Improve Local Human Development and its Importance for Impact Assessment of Hydropower Plants in Brazil Leia mais »

Este trabalho visa apresentar a implantação de planilha de controle para coleta de dados de qualidadede água de córregos da região norte da cidade de São Paulo, como Mandaqui, Charles D’Gaullee Elisa Maria. Implementando essa ação, as tomadas de decisões tornam-se imediatas à comunicaçãodos problemas relatados nas planilhas de controle e contribuem efetivamente para que …

Implantação de planilha de controle para coleta de dados de qualidade de água de córregos na região Norte de São Paulo Leia mais »

A despoluição de rios representa uma iniciativa de requalificação do ambiente urbano. Córregos revitalizados abrangem ações de saneamento, mas ensejam expectativas de agregar valor à qualidade de vida. A gestão urbana tem o desafio de mensurar o bem-estar proporcionado por políticas públicas. Enquanto os serviços ecossistêmicos culturais representam os benefícios vivenciados no contato com ambientes …

Oferta de serviços ecossistêmicos culturais na despoluição de rios urbanos em São Paulo Leia mais »

A tomada de decisões relativas à qualidade da água possui inúmeras incertezas, como a dificuldade de monitoramento de poluentes nos corpos hídricos. Modelos matemáticos são frequentemente utilizados como ferramentas de diagnóstico e elaboração de cenários para a tomada de decisões em recursos hídricos de modo geral e, especificamente, para a tomada de decisões relativas à …

Modelagem Integrada de Quantidade e Qualidade da Água em Bacias e Rios Leia mais »

Tiering in impact assessment has been advocated for mainstreaming environmental goals into different levels of planning. Likewise, the ecosystem services concept has been receiving increased attention for its potentialcontribution to the difficult mission of integrating the fragmented views of society’s dependence on nature whentaking decisions about development proposals and public policies. Using the tiered planning …

Addressing ecosystem services from plan to project to further tiering in impact assessment: Lessons from highway planning in São Paulo, Brazil Leia mais »