Environmental Impact Assessment of reservoir construction: new perspectives for restoration economy, and development: the Belo Monte Power Plant case study

• Main Authors: JG. Tundisi, T. Matsumura-Tundisi, JEM. Tundisi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Instituto Internacional de Ecologia
• Series: Brazilian Journal of Biology
• Subjects: watersheds; reservoirs; development; restoration economy
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-69842015000500010&lng=en&tlng=en

Abstract The Environmental Impact Assessment of reservoir construction can be viewed as a new strategic perspective for the economic development of a region. Based on the principles of a watershed approach a interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary systemic view including biogeophysiographical, economic and socio environmental studies the new vision of a EIA provides a basic substratum for the restoration economy and an advanced model for the true development much well ahead of the modernization aspects of the project of a reservoir construction.