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| Author(s): |
Marcelo da Silva Gigliotti
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Geociências |
| Defense date: | 2010-08-31 |
| Examining board members: |
Regina Célia de Oliveira;
Cenira Maria Lupinacci da Cunha;
Archimedes Perez Filho
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| Advisor: | Regina Célia de Oliveira |
| Abstract | |
The coastal regions are great fragility and vulnerability areas in which natural processes predominate, and are therefore very unstable areas. The intense human intervention in such fragile áreas maximizes the natural systems instability levels by promoting risk situations associated with, for example, the gravitational mass movements processes and even the floods. The Metropolitan Region of Baixada Santista is involved on a very complex relief structure, with two distinct dynamics, an area related to mountainous ground with high slope, which can reach 45 degrees, susceptible to gravitational processes related to mass movement. The other dynamic observed is associated with areas of coastal plains, subject to periodic flooding, with shallow ground water and unconsolidated sediments subjected to constant accommodation. Under this scenario, this paper proposes the implementation of a study of Geoenvironmental Zoning for the entire region of Santos-SP, using the methodology proposed by Rodriguez, Cavalcanti and Silva (2002) of the Landscape Geoecology, by natural and socio-economic status data aqquisition and analysis, seeking to define the framework for geoenvironmental units of the study area at 1:100,000 scale as the final product. It is considered that the results of this study may help to subsidize use plans and land use considering the natural weaknesses diagnosed in the area, to minimize the environmental impacts context observed in the area that combines the many levels of fragility natural systems functioning dynamic with important land use dating back to the beginning of the territory occupation (AU) | |