Abstract-The environmental concerns of the building industry in Portugal have been essentially related with the reduction of economic costs by the energetic optimization of materials production and construction processes. This strategy is focused on using prefabricated industrial materials and maximizing the use of mechanized construction methods. However, with the economic crisis, rising energy costs, rising unemployment and lack of skilled professionals due to emigration, decreased demography and ageing of population, the construction sector faces new challenges. The interest on the refurbishment of existing buildings, as well as on recovering traditional techniques is growing, namely by the use of local less transformed materials in buildings. This paper aims to characterize the availability of inorganic natural materials, such as weathering granitoids for adobe and rammed earth solutions and granite stone in the north of Portugal. The objective is to demonstrate that the use of local natural materials in alternative to conventional industrialized materials can present significant economic and environmental potential related with environmental and economic aspects, using a case study research in the north of Portugal. Considering a reference dwelling with a conventional exterior wall solution in hollow brick, it was evaluated the potential environmental savings of changing the brick of the exterior wall solutions by adobe and granite.
A crescente demanda por água tem ocasionado problemas aos recursos hídricos em todo estado do Maranhão. Em alguns casos, o uso indiscriminado desse recurso tem chegado até a seca total de rios e aquíferos subterrâneos. Lamentavelmente, grande parte da água extraída para as atividades humanas, de qualquer que seja a fonte, é utilizada de maneira muito ineficaz. O objetivo do trabalho é apontar medidas de gestão dos recursos hídricos, correlacionando as bases teóricas da geografia, metodologias de gestão e a problematização dos recursos hídricos na bacia hidrográfica do rio Aurá e Bacanga. O estudo utilizou-se de fontes secundárias, sendo validadas in loco, apoiando-se nos métodos hipotético-dedutivo, baseando na análise de dados adquiridos através de referências bibliográficas, cartográficas, fotográficas e de campo. Os resultados mostraram que ambas as bacias hidrográficas sofrem problemas de seca, decorrente, fundamentalmente, da associação entre a falta de planejamento do uso do solo, a partir do crescimento exagerado das demandas localizadas, além de uma inexistência de um sistema de gestão das águas.Palavras-chave:Recursos hídricos, bacia hidrográfica.
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