Quality index of permanent preservation areas of urban water resources: PPAWater

Urban expansion is widely acknowledged to have a substantial impact on water bodies. The objective of this work is to propose and apply a composite index to evaluate the quality of Permanent Preservation Areas (PPAs), which protect urban rivers. The PPAWater index aggregates information from six ind...

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Main Authors: Francisca Dalila Menezes Vasconcelos, Francisco Suetônio Bastos Mota, Maria Cléa Brito de Figueirêdo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Pesquisas Ambientais em Bacias Hidrográficas (IPABHi) 2021-02-01
Series:Revista Ambiente & Água
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Online Access:https://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1980-993X2021000100306&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en