Recuperação paisagística e ambiental do Vale do Rio Paúba: estudos para um plano de espaços livres

Abstract

This paper has been written as a final work for the Brazilian Capacity Building Programme for Landscape Architecture. It is a teorical exercise for land planning based in a proposal for Paúba River Valley at São Sebastião district located in the north shore of São Paulo State. In the valley there is small village that has a growing vocation for tourism as all the region surronding, but their geographic conditions dictates a ecological fragility that has been misunderstood during in its urban occupation. Nowadays, the area is in intermediate level of urbanization and environmental degradation but it is still possible to stop or minimize this process of ecological damage. The plan is based at the economic and social development of the community and at the search for better environmental and social conditions to increases the local potential. The principles and theories of Landscape Ecology has been used at this plan.