Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-06-15Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:07:19Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 gomes_l_me_bauru.pdf: 1981639 bytes, checksum: 56ec11d7a7a485dfb94874d7df6e2a84 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / A estreita relação entre o uso e a ocupação do solo e qualidade da água é destacada numa bacia hidrográfica periurbana no município de Bauru, Estado de São Paulo, Brasil. Cerca de 70% do abastecimento municipal se dá através do aquífero Guarani, que se encontra regionalmente no limite de sua exploração sustentável e o município tem como única alternativa, em seus limites administrativos, o manancial superficial estudado. O estudo abrangeu a identificação de fontes poluentes, o monitoramento mensal de oitos pontos de amostragem e a elaboração de um modelo de qualidade da água. Fontes pontuais de poluição predominan na região da cabeceira da bacia hidrográfica, pela contribuição de esgoto doméstico advindos de áreas urbanizadas, com indústrias e complexos penitenciários (CP). Fontes difusas predominam no médio e no final do percurso da drenagem principal devido às atividades agropastoris. O modelo de Streeter-Phelps, ajustado para o corpo principal, apresentou boa correlação até o médio percurso, onde as amostragens foram mais detalhadas. Apesar da forte pressão urbana, o Índice de Qualidade da Água (IQA) indica, águas de boa qualidade para abastecimento público. Contudo, os limites dessa qualidade podem ser facilmente extrapolados uma vez que os vetores de crescimento urbano apontam para esta bacia. Este fator demonstra a importância do monitoramento contínuo e a aplicação do modelo de qualidade de água como instrumentos para o desenvolvimento de planos efetivos de gestão desse recurso hídrico / This study covers the use and occupation and their influence on water quality in a watershed in a periurban in Bauru city, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil. About 70% of the municipal supply is through the Guarani aquifer, which is regionally within the limits of their sustainable exploitation and the municipality has the only alternative, in their administrative boundaries, the source surface studied. The study includes the identification of sources if pollutants, the montly monitoring at eight sampling stations and water quality modeling. Point sources of pollution prevalent in the region of the head of the basin, the contribution of sewage coming from urban areas, with industries and prison complex (PC). Diffuse sources dominate the middle and at the very end the main drain due to agropastoral activities. The Streeter-Phelps model, adjusted for the main body, showed a good correlation to the middle path, where the samples were more detailed. Despite the strong urban pressure, the Water Quality Index (AQI) also indicates good quality water for public supply. However, this quality limits can be easily extrapoled since the vectors of urban point to the basin. This factor shows the importance of continuous monitoring and implementation of water quality model as tools to develop effective plants to manage this water resource

Orientador: Maria Tereza Duarte Paes / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociências / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T11:18:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Isoldi_IsabelAraujo_M.pdf: 2377722 bytes, checksum: 6752ebd28fefc932a37ca47244b8ba72 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: No decorrer da formação e ocupação do território nacional, populações negras desenvolveram territorialidades próprias, muitas vezes conflitantes com distintas racionalidades de usos do território, que muitas vezes surgem como vetores de modernização, tais como hidrelétricas, rodovias, mineradoras, monoculturas, que se sobrepõe às antigas ordens vigentes nas comunidades negras. Com o advento do artigo 68 da Constituição Federal Brasileira de 1988, que instituiu o direito à posse legalizada da terra às populações negras, então chamadas remanescentes de quilombo, estabeleceu-se um processo de normatização da identidade dessas pessoas como quilombolas , uma vez que o acesso à terra a partir de direitos étnicos e coletivos trouxe à tona o quilombola como sujeito político. Os moradores de comunidades assumiram sua identidade territorial sob a nomeação quilombola, nem sempre utilizada anteriormente, para adentrar a luta política e jurídica. Para adentrar estudos de caso com mais profundidade, foram vistos os Negros do Trombetas, do Pará e o Povo Kalunga, de Goiás / Abstract: In the course of the Brazilian territory formation and occupation, black population groups developed their own territorialities, very often conflitive with different rationalities of territorial use. These uses appear as modernization vectors, as hydroeletric power stations, freeways, mining houses, monocultures, that are overlapped to the old ordering current in black communities. With the emergence of Article 68 in Brazilian Federal Constitution of 1988, which legalize the right to the ownership of land for the black communities, so-called remaining 'quilombos', it was established an identitary normalization process of these people as 'quilombola', since the access to the land on the basis of ethnic and colective rights brought about the 'quilombola' as a political subject. The inhabitants of these black communities assumed their territorial identity under the name of 'quilombola', which was not a common denomination, to build a political and juridical struggle. To get a deeper insight this research presents two case studies about the Negros of Trombetas from Para and the Kalunga people from Goiás / Mestrado / Análise Ambiental e Dinâmica Territorial / Mestre em Geografia

Thesis title: Procedure of application for a planning permission This diploma thesis deals with the planning permission proceedings, which is a proceeding to render the planning permission that is one of all instruments of land-use planning. The aim of this thesis is to cover the planning permission proceedings and to outline problematic aspects that are relevant in legal regulations. Beside relevant legal regulations the author results from literature and jurisdiction above all of the Highest Administrative Court of the Czech Republic. In introduction defines basic terms and subsume the topic into legal context and covers the goals and aims of land-use planning, as well as individual conceptual and realization instruments. In second chapter describes individual types of planning permissions and cases, when they are needed and on the contrary, cases, when it is possible to place projects into land without these planning permissions. Third and the most comprehensive part of the thesis dedicates to the most important institutes of the planning proceedings and analysis actual legal regulation, focusing provisions that can be problematic to apply correctly. Especially deals with the positions of juristic persons as defined in Building act, ways of delivering and proceeding of discussion of civil...

Abstract The research focuses on rural environments and the questions concerning cultural environment surveys in land use planning. The main purpose of the study is to scrutinize how survey information serves planning. The focus is on pointing out the challenges which can be identified in data management and utilization of information. Main challenges are related to the extendedness and increasing workload of surveys, fragmentation of information and the emphasis put on expertise knowledge. The problems are mainly caused by the lack of well-established practical examples, partly on the hegemony of sector based planning and rationalist-comprehensive tradition in theory of science. Yet the surveys form basically the framework, in which the object or area is been reviewed in the preparation phase of planning. In that sense, the chosen methods in fact-finding also define which qualities primarily come into focus. Single methods or viewpoints and the theories they rely on enlighten the whole only in part. On this basis the aims of the study can be divided roughly in three sections – firstly to the critique of the current practices, secondly, conceptual definition of the structural components of the cultural environment itself, and thirdly, formulation of an integrative approach derived from the above mentioned points of departure. The general understanding of the interaction between man, culture and environment is achieved through phenomenological and existential hermeneutics. The person mapping or exploring the environment with his methods is seen as ”link” between the existing conditions and the future plan. Through that, the overall terms of perception and practice-bound preconditions of human interpretation will come under scrutiny. The study aims to ponder the integration of different approaches and angles, forming a ”toolkit” for environmental analytics and interpretation as a kind of a complexity management. Cultural environment surveys should be developed in a way that they would regard areas as thematic and functional entities instead of a sum of single elements. The research results are presented as a matrix of needs-and-goals -analysis, which forms a framework of assessment for values and desicions. The aim is to clarify the general set-up of land use planning which includes various stakeholders and is multidisciplinary by nature, especially in the context of cultural environments. The needs-and-goals -analysis is based on cultural environment profiling, which includes recognition of values and tolerance towards changes. The purpose of an integrative analysis is to bring out development possibilities and restrictions, together with different development goals. The intensions of different stakeholders should be brought out early enough, in order to prevent disagreements to evolve into conflicts and problems. / Tiivistelmä Tässä tutkimuksessa käsitellään maaseudun kulttuuriympäristöjä sekä maankäytön suunnittelun valmisteluvaiheessa tuotettuja kulttuuriympäristöselvityksiä. Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan, miten suunnittelun tausta-aineistoina toimivat selvitykset ja niiden sisältämä tieto voitaisiin jäsentää palvelemaan paremmin suunnittelua. Tutkimuksessa on pyritty tuomaan esiin haasteita, joita tiedon hallinnassa ja hyödynnettävyydessä suunnittelun pohjaksi on voitu todeta. Pääasiallisesti nämä liittyvät selvitystiedon laajuuteen ja kuormittavuuteen, sektoroitumiseen ja asiantuntijanäkökulman korostumiseen. Tutkimuksessa esille tuodut ongelmat johtuvat osin selkeitten toimintamallien puutteesta, osin sektorisuunnittelun vahvasta taustavaikutuksesta sekä rationalistis-komprehensiivisesta perinteestä tieteenteoriassa. Kaavoituksen valmisteluvaiheen selvitykset muodostavat kuitenkin viitekehyksen, jonka puitteissa suunnittelualuetta tarkastellaan. Siten valitut tiedonhankinnan menetelmät määrittävät mihin ominaisuuksiin tarkastelun fokus ensisijaisesti painottuu. Käytännössä yksittäiset menetelmät tai niiden taustalla olevat tieteenalat valottavat kokonaisuutta kuitenkin vain osittaisesti ja hajanaisesti. Tutkimuksen tavoitteet voidaan jakaa karkeasti kolmeen eri osa-alueeseen - edellä mainittuun nykyisten käytäntöjen kritiikkiin, ilmiöstä itsestään määrittyvien rakennetekijöiden teoreettis-käsitteelliseen määrittelyyn sekä tähän nojautuvan integroivan lähestymistavan muodostamiseen. Tutkimuksessa hahmotellun kokonaiskäsityksen perustana on fenomenologisen ja eksistentiaalisen analytiikan keinoin määritelty ymmärrys ihmisen, kulttuurin ja ympäristön vuorovaikutuksesta. Tarkasteltavana ovat täten havainnoinnin yleiset edellytykset sekä ne käytäntösidonnaiset ennakkoehdot, joiden myötä selvityksen laatija muodostaa tulkintansa. Kulttuuriympäristöä tutkiva ihminen on keinovalikoimineen eräänlainen ”linkki” olemassa olevan ympäristön ja tulevan suunnitelman välillä. Tutkimuksessa on pohdittu eri näkökulmien integroitumista eräänlaiseksi organisoiduksi kompleksisuuden hallinnaksi, jonka perustana on havaintojen tekemisen ”välinekokonaisuus” kohteena olevan ympäristön piirteistä. Selvitysmenetelmiä tulisi kehittää ennen muuta siten, että kulttuuriympäristöjen tarkastelu teemallisten ja toiminnallisten kokonaisuuksien kautta mahdollistuisi nykyistä paremmin yksittäisten kohteitten sijaan. Tutkimuksen tuloksena esitetty tarve- ja tavoiteanalyysi muodostaa tulkintakehyksen suunnitteluvalinnoille ja toisaalta selkiyttää monitoimijaisen ja monialaisen suunnittelun lähtökohtia. Lähtökohtana on kulttuuriympäristöprofiilin laadinta, arvojen ja muutoksensietokyvyn määrittely sekä kehittämispotentiaalien esille nostaminen vaihtoehtoisten kehityspolkujen hahmottamisessa. Eri osapuolten tarpeet ja tavoitteet on myös tuotava esille riittävän aikaisin. Tällä on pyrittävä ennen muuta ehkäisemään ristiriitojen kehittymistä konflikteiksi ja asenteiden lukkiutumista vastakkainasetteluiksi.

M.A. (Geography) / Fast growing urbanisation in South Africa has resulted in a shortage of housing. Therefore, a programme of informal housing projects was undertaken. The planning of these informal settlements was detrimental because it was done under crisis management. Informal housing will develop over time to formal urban residence and must therefore be properly planned. The purpose of this study was to determine the suitability of Orange Farm as an informal housing area. The goal was achieved by concentrating on certain physiographical (geology, soil, relief, vegetation and climate) and human aspects. Certain physiographical and human aspects were superimposed to establish areas suitable for informal settlement development. The process was aided by using a Geographic Information System. The fmding of the study was that no area in Orange Farm was suitable for informal settlement development. Areas of more and less suitability were indicated according to the physiographical aspects. The study stressed the role of the Government in addressing the problems of planning an informal settlement. Proper informal settlement planning is necessary to assure that these settlements can develop into healthy formal settlements with minimal cost and time. This research proposes certain factors to be considered very carefully in the planning of informal settlements, for ego detailed geological surveys, soil surveys, vegetation research, climatological research and assessment of costs to supply the necessary services and infrastructure. The above-mentioned factors must be taken into consideration, and therefore be analysed, for each settlement as well as the demographical, economical and cultural characteristics of the specific population group in the settlement.

This study sought to identify critical areas for puma (Puma concolor) movement across the state of Arizona in the American Southwest and to identify those most likely to be impacted by current and future human land uses, particularly expanding urban development and associated increases in traffic volume. Human populations in this region are expanding rapidly, with the potential for urban centers and busy roads to increasingly act as barriers to demographic and genetic connectivity of large-bodied, wide-ranging carnivores such as pumas, whose long-distance movements are likely to bring them into contact with human land uses and whose low tolerance both for and from humans may put them at risk unless opportunities for safe passage through or around human-modified landscapes are present. Brownian bridge movement models based on global positioning system collar data collected during bouts of active movement and linear mixed models were used to model habitat quality for puma movement; then, a wall-to-wall application of circuit theory models was used to produce a continuous statewide estimate of connectivity for puma movement and to identify pinch points, or bottlenecks, that may be most at risk of impacts from current and future traffic volume and expanding development. Rugged, shrub- and scrub-dominated regions were highlighted as those offering high quality movement habitat for pumas, and pinch points with the greatest potential impacts from expanding development and traffic, although widely distributed, were particularly prominent to the north and east of the city of Phoenix and along interstate highways in the western portion of the state. These pinch points likely constitute important conservation opportunities, where barriers to movement may cause disproportionate loss of connectivity, but also where actions such as placement of wildlife crossing structures or conservation easements could enhance connectivity and prevent detrimental impacts before they occur.

The graduation thesis Spatial planning in Norway - the comparison with Czech Republic consists of description of spatial planning systems in Norway and Czech Republic. It focuses on differences between divided (regional and spatial planning) Czech system and integrated Norwegian model. The graduation thesis is divided into five parts. The first consists of basic terms, the second of socioeconomic analysis of Norway. Third and fourth part are describing Czech a Norwegian planning models. The main part of the graduation thesis is the part in which are define deuces, differences, advantages and disadvantages of spatial planning in Norway in comparison with the divided Czech model.

This thesis examines city conditions that attract high tech companies in Canada and the United States, gives an insight into the high tech industry in Richmond, analyses factors that determine the location of high tech in the City of Richmond, and identifies possible actions that the City of Richmond could take to attract high technology. The problem statement focuses on factors that determine the location of high tech industries in North American cities, generally, and in the City of Richmond, specifically. The thesis' methodology consists of a literature review, survey and interview research, statistical analysis, and policies and zoning regulations review. The economic and planning literature have provided better understanding of the definition of high tech industry, the types of high technology clusters, and the locational factors affecting the spatial distribution of high tech companies. Both the survey and the interview questions have focused on the effective methods of attracting high tech industries, the conditions making high tech industries successful in the surveyed cities, the development characteristics supporting high tech industries, the development tools used by the cities in practice, and the current effective planning approaches to high technology. The statistical analysis and the review of policies and zoning regulations have provided an insight into the number and size of the high tech companies located in the city of Richmond, as well as into Richmond's policies related to high technology. This thesis finds that high tech industries are foot - loose industries that often change locations due to factors, such as better tax climate, availability of an educated workforce, and post - secondary institutions presence. As a result, there is no standard framework to explain the locational pattern of high technology. However, this thesis identifies two sets of locational factors - general and specific - that are decisive for high technology today. There is an obvious requirement for general locational factors, such as a skilled workforce, post-secondary educational institutions proximity, linkages to other industries, good public transit, good quality business parks, higher building densities, and affordable housing. The specific locational factors depend on the type of high tech sector, and they are required by certain high tech sectors, such as biotechnology. The locational factors revealed by this thesis do not represent a framework that is applicable to all communities that aim to attract high tech businesses. However, the findings of this thesis present valid information for any community to consider before pursuing high tech policies and programs. In addition, this thesis leads to recommendations regarding the steps that communities could undertake in order to develop successful high tech policies and programs. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of / Graduate

In 2015 a Written Ministerial Statement (WMS) expanded the Localism Act in England which effectively gave neighbourhoods the power to decide on onshore wind power development in their area. By doing so, the planning process for such development ‘went local’. Literature on the effects of ‘going local’ during the planning process for onshore wind power development is conflicting. On the one hand, the involvement of local communities can lead to a higher level of trust and hence a higher success rate of development processes. On the other hand, it appears that people are often reluctant to accept wind power develompent in their own area even though they are in favour of the technology in general.  This thesis explores the effects of ‘going local’, in the form of the WMS of 2015 in England, on onshore wind power development by investigating the local and neighbourhood plans, as well as the planning applications, in the administrative County of Cornwall with the help of qualitative document analysis and a thematic analysis framework provided by Braun & Clarke (2006).  The results show that currently 4 out of the 213 Parish and Town Councils in the ceremonial county of Cornwall truly comply with the WMS, which means that onshore wind power development will only be possible in these areas. The development in these and all the other neighbourhoods is limited to small-scale clusters of turbines. In addition to this, the results show that there are four over-arching aspects that play a role in the decision-making process of neighbourhoods: i) benefits for the neighbourhood, ii) negative impacts on the neighbourhood area, iii) socio-political attitude, and iv) conditions set by the neighbourhoods or local authorities.  The results show that, with the current planning policy framework in England, onshore wind power development will be limited to a significant extent in terms of size and possible locations. The conflicting literature on ‘going local’ reappears in the planning documents and a broad range of factors plays a role for all the neighbourhoods. The given weighting to the different factors is what determines a neighbourhood’s stance on onshore wind power development.

abstract: The science community has made efforts for over a half century to address sustainable development, which gave birth to sustainability science at the turn of the twenty-first century. Along with the development of sustainability science during the past two decades, a landscape sustainability science (LSS) perspective has been emerging. As interests in LSS continue to grow rapidly, scholars are wondering what LSS is about and how LSS fits into sustainability science, while practitioners are asking how LSS actually contributes to sustainability in the real world. To help address these questions, this dissertation research aims to explore the currently underused problem-driven, diagnostic approach to enhancing landscape sustainability through an empirical example of urbanization-associated farmland loss (UAFL). Based mainly on multimethod analysis of bibliographic information, the dissertation explores conceptual issues such as how sustainability science differs from conventional sustainable development research, and how the past, present, and future research needs of LSS evolve. It also includes two empirical studies diagnosing the issue of urban expansion and the related food security concern in the context of China, and proposes a different problem framing for farmland preservation such that stakeholders can be more effectively mobilized. The most important findings are: (1) Sustainability science is not “old wine in a new bottle,” and in particular, is featured by its complex human-environment systems perspective and value-laden transdisciplinary perspective. (2) LSS has become a vibrant emerging field since 2004-2006 with over three-decade’s intellectual accumulation deeply rooted in landscape ecology, yet LSS has to further embrace the two featured perspectives of sustainability science and to conduct more problem-driven, diagnostic studies of concrete landscape-relevant sustainability concerns. (3) Farmland preservationists’ existing problem framing of UAFL is inappropriate for its invalid causal attribution (i.e., urban expansion is responsible for farmland loss; farmland loss is responsible for decreasing grain production; and decreasing grain production instead of increasing grain demand is responsible for grain self-insufficiency); the real problem with UAFL is social injustice due to collective action dilemma in preserving farmland for regional and global food sufficiency. The present research provides broad implications for landscape scientists, the sustainability research community, and UAFL stakeholders. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Sustainability 2020