The environmental situation of the cities, especially the larger ones, presents serious problems arising from human's inability to meet the demands of the agglomerations as they are settled, generating environments with low conditions of habitability. The supremacy of economic interests on natural ecosystems has established a complex network of impacts in raising resources to build the cities, from the extraction of material to the issuance of its final waste.
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A major challenge of Brazilian municipalities is to harmonize urban growth with the provision of public service. São Carlos, a municipality in the State of São Paulo also tries to solve this issue. The lack of urban planning coupled with the absence of occupation control measures promotes the soil sealing, which is responsible for the flooding in the valley bottoms. Considering this scenario, the object of study of this dissertation is the creek watershed Santa Maria do Leme. This watershed, even undeveloped, suffers with the occurrence of flooding in the region of its mouth.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchAugust, 2012Sao Tome and Principe
A certeza que os eventos críticos relacionados às mudanças climáticas afetam direta e indiretamente as atividades humanas surgiu, principalmente, com a divulgação do relatório do Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) de 2007. O referido relatório confirmou que os países menos avançados (PMAs), particularmente, os situados no continente africano, são considerados os mais vulneráveis aos efeitos das mudanças climáticas.
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