Territorial analysis surrounding Salto Grande reservoir (SP) through geoprocessing: contributions to multiple uses of the water

Author(s)

Marcelo Fernando Fonseca

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Geociências
• Defense date: 2013-07-06

Examining board members

Lindon Fonseca Matias; Ailton Luchiari; Andréia Medinilha Pancher; Silvia Méri Carvalho; Edilson de Souza Bias

• Advisor: Lindon Fonseca Matias

Abstract

The research undertaken here is to draw up a study to provide indicators for decision making in the process of territorial planning and management surrounding Salto Grande reservoir, located in the cities of Americana, Nova Odessa and Paulínia, in São Paulo State, adopting as prerogative the statement of multiple uses of water. As support to the analysis, it has used geoprocessing procedures and techniques, concurrently with the geographic analysis methodology for the establishment of a comprehensive georeferenced database. The planning and management of urban areas, conducted in a disjointed and misguided way, have contributed decisively to the deepening of contradictions and socio-spatial inequalities, giving rise to conflicts that must be reflected, in particular, in human sciences, and undoubtedly in geography. It has observed the immersion of the study area in current processes of urbanization, accompanied by environmental impacts directly related with remarkable damage to water quality and its surrounding area. Thus, evaluating their specificities and potentialities, under a geographical focus, it is argued in the sense of predicting a new background and propositions that address the multiple uses of water to the reservoir and its surroundings, emphasizing the importance of all social agents relations directly and indirectly involved with the sociospatial issue which is developed there (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 09/11244-2 - Geoprocessing applied to the territorial management planning of the environment reservoir from Salto Grande (SP), focused on multiple using
• Grantee: Marcelo Fernando Fonseca
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate