Environmental fragility of Pontal do Paranapanema priority municipalities

• Grant number: 16/04593-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: April 01, 2016
• End date: March 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography
• Principal Investigator: Raul Borges Guimarães
• Grantee: João Paulo de Oliveira Pimenta
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 12/23959-9 - Mapping and analysis of territory of sugarcane agrohidrobusiness in the Pontal do Paranapanema region - São Paulo State - Brazil labor relations, conflict and land and water use and environmental health, AP.BIOEN.TEM

Abstract

The research aims to analyze the Environmental Fragility and the estimation of soil erosion losses, with the application of Equation Universal Soil Loss in the Pontal do Paranapanema, in the western state of São Paulo. As a final product, a map overview with hierarchical levels of environmental fragility and estimated figures for land loss will be generated (ton / ha / year). (AU)