The international conception of smart cities points to the use of smart technologies to solve socio-environmental, economic and cultural challenges. This strategy aims to raise the city's quality of life in the face of ...

The water resources management in Brazil and in the world has been transforming throughout history. Most recently, one of the biggest challenges on this management is the seeking for the reduction of conflicts related ...

Desertification is a serious environmental problem of land degradation, which af fects many countries around the world, but it is in the arid, semi arid and sub humid regions of developing countries that this phenomenon ...

The city of Recife, Pernambuco, has similar social and environmental vulnerabilities to other Brazilian metropolises, a scenario resulting from an exclusionary development model and the lack of investments in urban ...

Environmental management by Brazilian municipalities has been a major challenge for managers, considering the pressures exerted by the growth dynamics of urban centers, and above all, by the new demands of society that ...