Environmental implications of the infrastructural development: urban sanitation

• Autor(a) principal: Mendes, Carlos Henrique Abreu
• Data de Publicação: 1992
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/8710
• topic: Sanitation ECO-92.; Saneamiento ECO-92.; Saneamento da ECO-92.

In the introduction, the author stresses the vastness of the sphere of action of activities comprised in providing sanitation systems and services, in a dual and contradictory society such as the Brazilian one. Next, he develops a brief survey of the history of sanitation in the country, after duly particularizing the interdependence between public health and the existence or the absence of sanitation. The organs encharged with the provision of the services are presented in chapter 3, and the sector's perspectives in chapter 4, being succintly analysed the factors which condition its crisis, as well as some alternatives for surpassing it. The conclusions are an effort to instill in the reader a deep hope of reaching the end of this century enjoying a real process of change, as concerns the quality of life of the Brazilian population.