Estudo da distribuição espacial da vegetação natural em Areas de Preservação Permanente : subsidios a gestão da APA Municipal de Campinas (SP) / Study of the spatial distribution of natural vegetation in Permanent Preservation Areas : management contributions to the EPA of Campinas City, southeastern Brazil

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

The Permanent Preservation Areas (PPAs) and the Environmental Protection Areas (EPAs) are juridical instruments defined by Brazilian Federal Legislation, which takes care of the creation of territorial units, with the purpose of protecting biological diversity and to guaranteeing the environmental quality of the ecosystems. The purpose of this work is to evaluate the spatial distribution of the natural vegetation in PPAs. The chosen region was the EPA of Campinas City, in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, which occupies a strategic region in natural and cultural resources; however, it has shown itself to be quite vulnerable to the environmental impacts produced during the processes of territorial utilization and occupancy, resulting in a great part of the PPAs being deprived of their natural vegetation and left in a conflict situation with legislation. The mapping and analysis was done according to the following sequence: (1) mapping of the natural vegetation and land use; (2) mapping of the PPAs; and (3) integration and analysis of the obtained data. The results were edited in a dynamic cartographic base, which permits, in an interact-friendly way, to visualize and query informations about the natural and cultural elements configuration of the studied area, which serves as an aid for the construction of a fundamental critical knowledge to identify territorial management alternative solutions to introduce recuperation and conservation actions

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sistemas de informação geografica environmental protection spatial analysis (statistics) geographic information systems vegetation zoning proteção ambiental analise espacial (estatistica) zoneamento - campinas (sp) territorial management vegetação - campinas (sp)

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