Avaliação do processo de aprendizagem em alunos de ensino médio sob a perspectiva dos professores: apontamentos referentes a uma proposta de ensino e aprendizagem interdisciplinar

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Proposta de padronização em avaliação de impactos ambientais

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Ciência, cientistas e democracia desfigurada: o caso Belo Monte

A fronteira hidrelétrica avança sobre a Amazônia com grandes obras como Santo Antonio e Jirau no rio Madeira e de maneira decisiva através dos projetos de Belo Monte proposto na Volta Grande do Xingu, licenciado em fevereiro de 2010, e de aproveitamentos no rio Tapajós. Contudo, os grandes projetos de infra-estrutura de geração de energia nesta região revelam confl itos, disputas políticas e econômicas que evidenciam risco aos processos de licenciamento ambiental, no processo de discussão de obras que envolvem bilhões de reais e consequências ambientais e sociais de grande envergadura. Alerta-se neste artigo à deslegitimação do discurso de grupos sociais que se opõem às políticas oficiais de desenvolvimento materializadas na duvidosa e polêmica usina de Belo Monte-PA, baseado na experiência da rede Painel de Especialistas constituído para análise crítica dos Estudos de Impacto Ambiental de Belo Monte e diversos segmentos da sociedade.

A concepção geossistêmica aplicada ao estudo da dinâmica da paisagem na bacia hidrográfica do rio Lourenço Velho, sul do estado de Minas Gerais - Brasil

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Um modelo de avaliação de fluxos de biomassa e carbono em madeireiras de comunidades isoladas da região amazônica

A Amazônia tem imensos recursos florestais, abrigando um terço das florestas tropicais do mundo. A Amazônia brasileira compreende uma área maior que 5 milhões de km², o que corresponde a 61 % do território brasileiro. A região norte produz 72,45% da madeira em tora do Brasil, o estado do Pará contribui com 55,47% de acordo com IBMA (2007). A exploração madeireira na Amazônia é caracterizada como “garimpagem florestal”, ou seja, os exploradores entram na floresta selecionam as toras de valor comercial e a retiram. Passando-se certo tempo, eles voltam novamente a essa área e a exploram, esse processo de exploração está acontecendo em um intervalo de tempo cada vez menor. A Amazônia legal abrigava 833 serrarias circulares em 1998. Essas serrarias estavam localizadas principalmente no estuário amazônico (71%) – nos furos e tributários dos rios Amazonas, Xingu, Tocantins e Pará. Essas processadoras familiares consumiram conjuntamente 1,3 milhões de metros cúbicos de madeira em tora (5% da produção da Amazônia). Neste trabalho estimou-se o balanço de carbono em serrarias do estuário do rio Amazonas e foi desenvolvido o ciclo de vida do carbono para uma serraria no estuarino amazônico. Foi identificado que no processo produtivo da comunidade há um caminho bem definido do recurso natural (biomassa/madeira): exploração florestal, transporte de biomassa, transformação (empresas madeireiras) / processos produtivos, geração e utilização de resíduos, transporte de madeira processada, comercialização/mercado. O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar os recursos energéticos através do fluxo (inputs e outputs) da madeira e da energia no processo. Para isso, desenvolveu um modelo que simulou os fluxos de carbono, da madeira e a área afetada pela exploração. Neste trabalho criou-se um modelo específico onde se avaliou o fluxo de carbono para o cenário estudado; a avaliação do impacto ambiental foi alcançada, onde obteve um valor positivo, uma captura de carbono cerca de 55 tCO₂/mês, mesmo com a baixa eficiência do sistema produtivo, em torno de 36% conclui-se que o sistema atual de exploração não polui mas poderia ser melhorado a fim de alcançar uma maior eficiência do processo produtivo. Enquanto ao resíduo gerado aproximadamente 64% do volume de madeira que entra na serraria conseguira gerar aproximadamente 1240 kW de energia elétrica mensal.

Geomorfologia aplicada à fragilidade e ao zoneamento ambiental de Caxias/MA

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Políticas de apoio a gestão da arborização urbana: uma análise do programa município verde azul

Pós-graduação em Agronomia - FEIS

Sistema de gestão ambiental: subsídios para a implantação em uma estação de tratamento de esgoto a partir da análise crítica de estudos ambientais prévios

The process of environmental impact assessment (EIA), in the extent of previous environmental studies, has as one of its functions to provide subsidies to the actions of environmental managment of enterprises. However, the proper estructuring of programs that allows to support this managment does not often occurs. This research sought as one of its objectives to evaluate in which extent the process of EIA can be a subsidie for the EMS, providing basic elements of this system. In addition, more specifically, the research had as one of its objetives the development of subsidies for the implantation of an Environmental Managment System (EMS), based on the model of ISO 14001 (2004), for a sewage treatment plant yet to be constructed in the city of President Venceslau / SP. In order to achieve theses objetives, a discussion was held based on the evaluation of environmental studies available in the library of Cetesb / SMA. Still, for the elaboration of subsidies for the EMS of the treatment plant, the research was focused on the structuring of environmental management program, based on the information contained in its Preliminary Environmental Report (PER). The research had as one of its products, the development of subsidies for the planning and control of the environmental aspects and impacts and for the environmental program of the enterprise, based on the use of environmental indicators. It was concluded, based on the results that, in general, the previous environmental studies analyzed showed little emphasis on the phase of development of structured environmental programs that offer guidelines to achieve the desired results for the environmental performance of the company.

Análise comparativa dos estudos de impacto ambiental (EIA-RIMA) de projetos dutoviários no Brasil: estudo dos gasodutos Paulínia-Jacutinga, Rio de Janeiro-Belo Horizonte e Urucu-Porto Velho

Pipelines are linear construction that intersect several environments, requiring integration of environmental and technical aspects in its various elaboration steps. Environmental impact assessment if made to integrate the environmental information to enable environmental characterization, possibility identify previously fragilities of environment what contributes to the safety forecast of the significant impacts. These studies shall consider superimpose of the elements and the worsening of critical situations that already exists. In this way, meet and analyse informations about the environmental impact assessment, constructive aspects related to pipelines transport and get environmental impact studies of the case studies, providing the student a critical vision for the discussion of the apropiate balance between description and analysis, methodological rigour and the interface between construction and the environmente with inserts. Performing the critical analysis of methodologies and applied criteria for the environmental diagnosis and impact identification, search improve the methodologies for elaboration of environmental impact studies for linear construction, particulary pipelines, minin conflicts and giving security for the license process. Await provide subsidy to direction data collection, for choosing environmental indicator and for the prognosis and indentification of impacts.

Modelo de avaliação de impacto ambiental utilizando a teoria dos conjuntos fuzzy: um estudo de caso para a indústria automobilística

Pós-graduação em Ciências Ambientais - Sorocaba

Avaliação ambiental simplificada dos recursos hídricos na bacia hidrográfica do Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo

The objective of this study was to evaluate environmental impacts on the Ribeirão Preto basin in order to define the most degraded areas and their causes and to propose solutions and management strategies for them. An impacts indicator questionnaire was designed, that allowed us to establish a direct relationship between reactions achieved and environmental factors by attributing value to some impacting parameters obtained by simple visualization in the field. The questionnaire was applied at 22 points, based on the influence area of the sub-basin and variability in land use. It was determined that the main environmental impacts that affect the basin are in nature effluent wastewater released into water bodies, the disposal of waste and deforestation. These factors were mainly noticed near to Ribeirão Preto city (State of São Paulo), the most populated region. Such information provides subsidies necessary to environmental management in this basin to decreasing environmental degradation. Among the management strategies suggested, it is possible to highlight that related to the accomplishment of environmental legislation, recuperation of degraded areas and adequate treatment and disposal of effluents.

Impactos ambientais na bacia hidrográfica do Ribeirão Monjolo Grande, Ipeúna, SP

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

O impacto social dos serviços de convivência e fortalecimento de vínculos para pessoas idosas: um estudo sob a ótica dos trabalhadores do SUAS

Pós-graduação em Serviço Social - FCHS

State of the Arctic October 2006

This State of the Arctic Report presents a review of recent data by an international group of scientists who developed a consensus on the information content and reliability. The report highlights data primarily from 2000 to 2005 with a first look at winter 2006, providing an update to some of the records of physical processes discussed in the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA, 2004, 2005). Of particular note: • Atmospheric climate patterns are shifting (Fig. 1). The late winter/spring pattern for 2000–2005 had new hot spots in northeast Canada and the East Siberian Sea relative to 1980–1999. Late winter 2006, however, shows a return to earlier climate patterns, with warm temperatures in the extended region near Svalbard. • Ocean salinity and temperature profiles at the North Pole and in the Beaufort Sea, which changed abruptly in the 1990s, show that conditions since 2000 have relaxed toward the pre-1990 climatology, although 2001–2004 has seen an increase in northward ocean heat transport through Bering Strait (Fig. 2), which is thought to impact sea ice loss. • Sea ice extent continues to decrease. The sea ice extent in September 2005 was the minimum observed in summer during the satellite era (beginning in 1979), marking an unprecedented series of extreme ice extent minima beginning in 2002 (Fig. 3). The sea ice extent in March 2006 was also the minimum observed in winter during the satellite era. • Tundra vegetation greenness increased, primarily due to an increase in the abundance of shrubs. Boreal forest vegetation greenness decreased, possibly due to drought conditions (Fig. 4). • There is increasing interest in the stability of the Greenland ice sheet. The velocity of outlet glaciers increased in 2005 relative to 2000 and 1995, but uncertainty remains with regard to the total mass balance. • Permafrost temperatures continue to increase. However, data on changes in the active layer thickness (the relatively thin layer of ground between the surface and permafrost that undergoes seasonal freezing and thawing) are less conclusive. While some of the sites show a barely noticeable increasing trend in the thickness of the active layer, most of them do not. • Globally, 2005 was the warmest year in the instrumental record (beginning in 1880), with the Arctic providing a large contribution toward this increase. Many of the trends documented in the ACIA are continuing, but some are not. Taken collectively, the observations presented in this report indicate that during 2000–2005 the Arctic system showed signs of continued warming. However, there are a few indications that certain elements may be recovering and returning to recent climatological norms (for example, the central Arctic Ocean and some wind patterns). These mixed tendencies further illustrate the sensitivity and complexity of the Arctic physical system. They underline the importance of maintaining and expanding efforts to observe and better understand this important component of the climate system to provide accurate predictions of its future state.