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Coping with Natural Disasters and Urban Risk: An Approach to Urban Sustainability from Socio-Environmental Fragmentation and Urban Vulnerability Assessment
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2014)
Purpose - Cities have been exposed to a variety of natural disasters such as flooding, extreme temperatures, storms, earthquakes, and other natural shocks, and have had to respond and adapt to such pressures over time. In ...
Urban Fabric Patterns on Urban Wetland
(2021)
The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.Latin American cities have experienced rapid urbanization and with it the social and environmental challenges caused by urban sprawl. Over the last ...
LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY OF THE FOREST FRAGMENTS OF RIBEIRAO DAS PEDRAS WATERSHED - CAMPINAS, SAO PAULO STATE
(Univ Federal VicosaVicosaBrasil, 2013)
Mirmecofauna em um fragmento de floresta atlântica urbana no município de Marília, SP, Brasil
(2011-05-01)
The aim of this study was to verify the influence of the habitat fragmentation on the Ant Fauna in an urban fragment of Semideciduous Seasonal Atlantic Forest located in the municipality of Marília, São Paulo, Brazil. The ...
A new model of urban development in Latin America: The gated communities and fenced cities in the metropolitan areas of Santiago de Chile and Valparaiso
(ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2007)
Over the last decades, in the main Chilean cities the development of residential quarters with restricted access increased remarkably. This trend has occurred parallel to the construction of various features that significantly ...
Environmental indicators in forest fragments from urban watersheds
(2018-01-01)
Accelerated urbanization in Brazil promoted the rapid growth of cities and, in most cases, was not based on adequate land use planning. The result was the intense fragmentation of the landscape, causing the destruction and ...
Physical attributes of the soil of urban forests as environmental indicators of environmental degradation
(Centro Pesquisas Florestais, Ufsm, 2020-07-01)
The lack of urban planning has led to a disorderly growth in cities and to social and environmental problems such as lack of basic sanitation, water, air and soil pollution, deforestation, among others and also the ...
Estudo de um fragmento florestal urbano: A interceptação da precipitação, a diferença de temperatura e a vetorização dos fragmentos florestais urbanos de Medianeira-PR
(Universidade Tecnológica Federal do ParanáMedianeiraBrasilEngenharia AmbientalUTFPR, 2017-06-20)
With the urbanization of the environment for the creation of urban centers, most part of the original forests were devastated giving place for small forest fragments. These urban forest fragments have a huge importance for ...
Nesting patterns among Neotropical species assemblages: can reserves in urban areas be failing to protect anurans?
(2018-06-16)
Nestedness among species assemblages implies that sites of lower species richness are subsets of richer sites in a regional species pool. This nestedness is a reflection of a non-random process of species loss as a consequence ...