CONSERVAÇÃO DO MEIO AMBIENTE E BACIA HIDROGRÁFICA:ELEMENTOS PARA SUSTENTABILIDADE DO DESENVOLVIMENTO

• Main Authors: Flávio Rodrigues do Nascimento, Osires Carvalho
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Editora da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia 2005-06-01
• Series: Revista Sociedade & Natureza
• Online Access: http://www.sociedadenatureza.ig.ufu.br/include/getdoc.php?id=38&article=13&mode=pdf

Hydrological resources, environmental disturbances and sustainable development are the mainconcern in today´s world. The global population is growing at a fast pace and the availablenatural resources, mainly water resources may not cope with the present fast growing demand ata worldwide level. The present work deal with the water resources management on a social,economic and environmental basis within the Pacoti river basin in the Sate of Ceara NortheasterBrazil. The study also cover the conflicts related to the utilization of land resources. Based on thegeosystem theory and also on the fundamental of the Regional Planning domain, the present studymakes proposal to improve the Pacoti´s river basin eater management, aiming to mitigate environ-mental impacts as well as to reach a pattern of self sustainable development. That is what this studyall about.