Geoenvironmental zoning for sustainable regional development and the ecotourism of the Brotas municipal, SP

• Grant number: 16/19020-0
• Support type: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): October 01, 2017
• Effective date (End): December 31, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Urban and Regional Planning - Methods and Techniques of Urban and Regional Planning
• Principal researcher: Luiz Eduardo Moschini
• Grantee: João Vitor Roque Guerrero
• Home Institution: Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde (CCBS). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 18/02836-2 - Geo-environmental cartography applied to the analysis of ecosystem regulatory services: subsidies for the conservation of water resources, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

The current process of ecosystems' degradation has become increasingly worrying due to their environmental functions and services they provide. Several methodologies attempt to analyze and measure the local ecosystem services, but are limited to analyzing only the biological characteristics, with the study of vegetation. Therefore, this project aims to identify and analyze the ecosystem services of Brotas from the integration of two models of environmental cartography: the environmental fragility, which essentially assesses the physical environment and ecosystem vulnerability that considers the biological environment through the metrics of landscape and the presence of habitats. The integration of these two models combined with multi-temporal analysis of land use and vegetation cover will allow an integrated analysis of the local ecosystem services identifying how is their relationship to human activities and the proposition of a geoenvironmental zoning directed to the sustainable regional development and ecotourism. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

ROQUE GUERRERO, JOAO VITOR; TEIXEIRA GOMES, ANTONIO ALBERTO; DE LOLLO, JOSE AUGUSTO; MOSCHINI, LUIZ EDUARDO. Mapping Potential Zones for Ecotourism Ecosystem Services as a Tool to Promote Landscape Resilience and Development in a Brazilian Municipality. SUSTAINABILITY, v. 12, n. 24 DEC 2020. Web of Science Citations: 0.

GUERRERO, JOAO V. R.; ESCOBAR-SILVA, V, ELTON; CHAVES, MICHEL E. D.; MATAVELI, V, GUILHERME A.; BOURSCHEIDT, VANDOIR; DE OLIVEIRA, GABRIEL; PICOLI, MICHELLE C. A.; SHIMABUKURO, YOSIO E.; MOSCHINI, LUIZ E. Assessing Land Use and Land Cover Changes in the Direct Influence Zone of the Braco Norte Hydropower Complex, Brazilian Amazonia. FORESTS, v. 11, n. 9 SEP 2020. Web of Science Citations: 0.