Diagnóstico ambiental das nascentes do Córrego dos Macacos – município de Álvares Machado/SP

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Denise Marini [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/120493
• topic: Geografia; Política ambiental; Bacias hidrograficas; Nascentes; Álvares Machado (SP); Córrego dos Macacos (Álvares Machado/SP); Environmental planning; Hydrographic basin; Headwaters; Macacos' Stream (Álvares Machado/SP)

Environmental diagnosis fits in analysis social-spatial organization insofar it contributes to understanding past and present aspects of how a territory works as well as enables the creation of statements for future ordainment. In this context, the present study aims at contributing with data for creating recovery and environmental preservation projects for the basin of Macacos‟ stream‟s headwaters, located in the north of Álvares Machado county in São Paulo state. To achieve this purpose, the main characteristics and existing uses in the basin have been analyzed and its main environmental problems were identified in the data and information collected in journals, field work and interviews with dwellers from the interested area and local government authorities. On this way, a diagnosis of the environmental state of the studied area was performed considering its specific issues regarding the natural and physical process as well as human influences. From the analysis carried out it was possible to identify environmental impacts on different levels resulting from the conflictuous relation between uses and occupations and the natural dynamics of the studied basin.