The following work has as main purpose discuss the present public politics of urban environmental management by analyzing municipal models, practices and experiences, in search of an absolute management. Inside the thematic ...

Describes the proposed upscale business, entertainment, trading and residential urban centre for Sangre Grande, with legal considerations, the physical and socio-economic environments, mitigation and management plans, ...

Describes the proposed development of a business and industrial park at Cove Estate, examining the construction process, legal considerations, natural and human environments, mitigation and management plans, risk analysis, ...

Examines aspects such as urban management and equity; managing urban land; the provision of housing and housing technology; environmental management and infrastructure; and sustainable development of human settlements.

São Paulo State, in Brazil, is getting increasingly crowded, like in other third world countries around the world, so should give great importance to city development. This work considered the phenomenon of closed ...

The agro-industrial production of genetically modified organisms uses great amounts of pesticides, close to cities, which generates growing concern due to the numerous evidence of their negative effects on health and the ...

This work addresses the transformations of urban and environmental approaches in Brazil s territory management, identifying its convergences and divergences. This study was structured from the contextualization of a ...

The Torres River is one of the most urbanized catchments in Costa Rica, with only 46.67 km2 and approximately 50% of its area have urban land uses comprising nearly 13% of the national population. The quick rural-urban ...

The objective of this study was to analyze the progress of environmental degradation in the municipality of São Carlos, Sao Paulo state, as a result of the urban area growth process between 2010 and 2015. The following ...