Circumstance
a proposal to discuss urban waters
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https://doi.org/10.5935/cadernospos.v24n1p105-117Keywords:
Urban Waters; Hydrographic Basin; Environmental Education; Recovery of degraded areas; Political organization through urban waters.Abstract
Most Brazilian cities have suffered from floods and landslides during the rainy season, making clear the ills caused by disrespecting urbanization of natural conditions as well as the limitations of conventional drainage solutions, unable to face the problem nor its growing aggravation in view of changes weather. Facing this situation imposes new solutions based on diffuse measures of rainwater management, which depend on the participation of local populations and, therefore, on the understanding of what an urban hydrographic basin is and how the dynamics of the water inside it works, aspects fundamental aspects of basic environmental education to recover the quality of life in cities. This article presents the concept of circumstance, related to the portion of a watershed that can be directly and daily observed, as the basis of a proposal to horizontalize knowledge about the functioning of water in urbanized basins and expand discussions on urban water, articulated to the various scales involved therein. The article also presents a report on the circumstances of a sub-basin in Belo Horizonte, illustrating how it can be mobilized in practice.
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