- Sustainable urbanism in coastal environment: an applied project to expanding urbanized zone of Aracaju City, Sergipe, Brazil   1151 kb by    Goncalves Garcia, Marina & Vasconcellos Garcia, Antonio Jorge | nina_0601@hotmail.com    Short Outline This paper presents partial results of geo-science multidisciplinary studies applied to coastal environments and its usefulness in terms of a proposal for sustainable urban development in the expansion of the city of Aracaju, capital of the State of Sergipe, in the northeast of Brazil. Abstract This work is a proposal for the development of solutions to be applied to the problems faced by regions of urbanization in coastal areas. Coastal environments are places of great instability and fragility geo- environmental and offer great difficulties in their occupational planning and growth, significantly aggravated disorderly expansion situations, leading to occupation of environmentally sensitive sites. The city is the State capital of Aracaju, Sergipe, located in northeastern Brazil. The city had its beginning as a planned city, following a regular urban model. Currently, however, the expansion of the city has been occupied so little committed with its consequences, in terms not only of damage to the flora and fauna as well as to the physical environment (coastal dunes and coastal ecosystems) and hydrological system (underground water and ponds). Although far from the central districts of Aracaju and no continuity with the consolidated urban fabric of the city, Zone Expansion is the largest space for future development of much of the urban functions of this capital. The city currently lives its transformation process conducted by a real estate dynamics driven by its rapid population growth, a consequence of your current situation. The human occupation on the natural environments for urban areas must be strictly preceded by environmental impact studies and in this context the photo-geological studies and field surveys of the conditions of ''environmental vulnerability'' are part of the surveys required to perform an adequate assessment of the conditions of environmental ''sustainability'' of the area to be urbanized. The situation of the urban expansion of the city of Aracaju requires higher speed in decisions regarding the preservation of the environment, therefore, seek recovery of already degraded environments and prevent further destruction where, ecosystems can be preserved. In developing studies will be presented suggestions aiming at the preservation of coastal ecosystems, as well as the maintenance of the hydrological balance of the area, integrating the buildings and access roads to the physical environment and its geo-biodiversidade. Keywords sustainable urbanism environment Case Study presented on the ISOCARP Congress 2013: Frontiers of Planning - Evolving and declining models of city planning practice   Click to open the full paper as pdf document   Click to send an email to the author(s) of this paper