METHODOLOGY FOR HYDRO-ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT FOR INTERVENTION PROJECTS IN PERENE RIVERS (MASRios)

Methodology for hydro-environmental sustainability assesment for intervention projects in perennial rivers (MASRios): application and considerations from case studies

Authors

  • Andreza Tacyana Felix CARVALHO Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Centro de Tecnologia e Geociências
  • Jaime Cabral Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5016/geociencias.v41i02.15833

Abstract

To assess the environmental feasibility of structural interventions in fluvial environments, the choice to use specific methodologies based on sustainability indicators can be useful tools for the technical basis of the analysis of environmental licensing. Thus, this research aims to evaluate the Methodology for Assessment of Hydro-environmental Sustainability for Interventions in Perennial Rivers (MASRios), based on its application for the analysis of dam, dredging, rectification and requalification projects in first and second orders perennial rivers, according hierarchical river classification. Based on bibliographic, documentary and field research, case studies, data and information from three projects of intervention in perennial water courses, which were objects of environmental licensing at the State Environmental Agency of Pernambuco between the years 2011 and 2017. Finally, it is verified through the results of the numerical and graphical values presented, that MASRios has the capacity to integrate the hydro-environmental impacts under study, as well as technical agreement to support the sustainability assessment of these types of projects.

Keywords: Environmental management instrument. Hydro-environmental sustainability indicators. River system. Environmental licensing. Environmental feasibility.

Author Biographies

Andreza Tacyana Felix CARVALHO, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Centro de Tecnologia e Geociências

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Centro de Tecnologia e Geociências,

Rua Acadêmico Hélio Ramos, S/N, Cidade Universitária - Recife – PE.

Jaime Cabral, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)

Adjunct Professor of the Civil Engineering Course at the University of Pernambuco (UPE) and Full Professor of the Postgraduate Course in Civil Engineering at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE). Address: Federal University of Pernambuco, Center for Technology and Geosciences, Rua Acadêmico Hélio Ramos, S / N, Cidade Universitária - Recife - PE - Brazil, CEP: 50740-530.

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Published

2022-10-17

Issue

Vol. 41 No. 2 (2022)

Section

Artigos