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The Rio dos Sinos watershed: an economic and social space and its interface with environmental status

2010; Instituto Internacional de Ecologia (Brazil); Volume: 70; Issue: 4 suppl Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s1519-69842010000600001

1678-4375

JAS Figueiredo, Elisabeth Cristina Drumm, Marco Antônio Siqueira Rodrigues, Fernando Rosado Spilki,

Science and Science Education

The Rio dos Sinos watershed is located in the eastern region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul and includes 32municipalities. These municipalities develop several different economic activities such as farming and livestock along the 190 km length of the Rio dos Sinos, one of the rivers with the worst quality of water in Brazil. The region is also characterised by growing urbanisation and heavy industrialisation. The main economic activity is the leather and footwear industry. This diversified land use puts the Rio dos Sinos watershed at risk of a wide range of potential environmental impacts. The aim of the present article is to discuss the socioeconomic process currently implemented in the Rio dos Sinos watershed and the effect of these human actions on the environmental quality described throughout this special issue of the Brazilian Journal of Biology.