Impacts of urban sprawl in the Administrative Region of Ribeirão Preto (Brazil) and measures to restore improved landscapes

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dc.contributor.authorMarianno de Olivera, Laís Caroline [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorde Mendonça, Gislaine Costa [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorAraújo Costa, Renata Cristina [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorLeite de Camargo, Regina Aparecida [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorFernandes, Luís Filipe Sanches [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorPacheco, Fernando António Leal [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorPissarra, Teresa Cristina Tarlé [UNESP]
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
dc.contributor.institutionPrograma de Mestrado em Análise Geoambiental (MAG)
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-29T15:13:35Z
dc.date.available2023-07-29T15:13:35Z
dc.date.issued2023-01-01
dc.description.abstractThe present study addressed the problem of urban expansion in a large metropolis of Brazil (ARRP – Administrative Region of Ribeirão Preto), relating the evolution of urbanization in the past 35 years with losses of agricultural area and respective equivalent production and economic effects. Besides these food security and agribusiness issues, the study tracked important environmental consequences of the observed growing urbanization. This included water insecurity related with the occupation of watercourse networks, destruction of riparian vegetation that is legally protected as Permanent Preservation Areas (PPAs), and the occupation of Guarani Aquifer recharge areas with impermeable surfaces. The database consisted of Landsat images interpreted and processed in a Geographic Information System (GIS). The results indicate losses of rural area exceeding 350 km2 in the studied timeframe, with equivalent production and economic losses around 1.1 Mton/year and 230 MR$/year, on average. It is worth to mention the 40–75% overlap between the impermeable surfaces of some ARRP municipalities (e.g., Cajuru, Altinópolis) and recharge areas of Guarani Aquifer. The impermeable surfaces within the ARRP also affected approximately 7000 headwaters that were potential hotspots of shallow aquifer recharge. The urban sprawl destroyed more than 9100 km of natural watercourses and nearly 630 km2 of PPAs. The pathways recognized to improve the ARRP landscape included implementation of urban agriculture and landscape planning measures capable to protect the recharge to and the quality of Guarani Aquifer water, mostly anchored in the Municipal Director Plans, the prominent land use policy tools in the ARRP. This integrated, long-term, spatially explicit and quantitative assessment of urban sprawl impacts assembled with indications of landscape restoration policies and measures is novel in Brazil. On the other hand, studying the ARRP is worthwhile because of its historical relationship with the Brazilian ethanol program that brought an accelerated development to the region following the World oil crisis of 1970 s until now.en
dc.description.affiliationFaculty of Agrarian and Veterinary Sciences São Paulo State University (UNESP/FCAV), SP
dc.description.affiliationUniversity of Guarulhos (UNG) Programa de Mestrado em Análise Geoambiental (MAG), Praça Tereza Cristina, 239, SP
dc.description.affiliationCITAB—Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environment and Biological Science University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Ap. 1013
dc.description.affiliationCQVR—Chemistry Center of Vila Real University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Ap. 1013
dc.description.affiliationPOLUS—Land Use Policy Group Paulista State University (UNESP), Access Way Prof. Paulo Donato Castellane, s/n, SP
dc.description.affiliationUnespFaculty of Agrarian and Veterinary Sciences São Paulo State University (UNESP/FCAV), SP
dc.description.affiliationUnespPOLUS—Land Use Policy Group Paulista State University (UNESP), Access Way Prof. Paulo Donato Castellane, s/n, SP
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106439
dc.identifier.citationLand Use Policy, v. 124.
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106439
dc.identifier.issn0264-8377
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85141493564
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/249348
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofLand Use Policy
dc.sourceScopus
dc.subjectAgricultural land reduction
dc.subjectDestruction of riparian vegetation
dc.subjectLand use policy
dc.subjectLandscape planning
dc.subjectReduced aquifer outcrops
dc.subjectUrbanization
dc.titleImpacts of urban sprawl in the Administrative Region of Ribeirão Preto (Brazil) and measures to restore improved landscapesen
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