The knowledge about the physical-natural environment to be explored is extremely important for the correct development of human activities. The planning of land use and occupation minimizes the environmental impact, ...

Drinking-water supply is one of the main issues that populations face in many coastlands. Shallow coastal aquifers are often characterized by the presence of lens-shaped freshwater floating on the saline groundwater plume ...

This paper proposes a modeling approach for assessing changes in groundwater pollution hazard under two different socio-economic and environmental scenarios: The first one considers an exponential growth of agriculture ...

In the Metropolitan Region of Natal, the underground water potential is constituted by the Dunas- Barreiras aquifer system, which has large underground water reserves, capable of supplying the population for domestic, ...