Urban and peri-urban forests provide a variety of ecosystem service benefits for urban society. Recognising and understanding the many human-tree interactions that urban forests provide may be more complex but probably ...

Urban agriculture came to stand out in the world scenario in the last years of the twentieth century and beginning of the XXI, due to the greater concern of the population with food security and the aggravation of social, ...

We assume that for the study of a particular situation like that of Campinas, would need to fixate some points of its development: the understanding of urban crises, as well as issues resulting from them and, finally, why ...

Population concentration in urban centers has been a striking feature of the world development process. The accelerated growth of cities is often confused with development; however, in parallel with the ...

This work sought to understand the dynamics existing in cities and their consequences. These consequences generate urban problems such as segregation, social inequalities and criminality. In an attempt to understand how ...

The urban growth and the environmental relationship are several times joint as to the of the urban soil occupation as to the urban area development. The transformation of the several kinds of soil use and the human being ...