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Global International Waters Assessment: Brazil Current, GIWA Regional Assessment 39

dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programme
dc.coverage.spatialSouth America
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-11T20:08:21Z
dc.date.available2016-10-11T20:08:21Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/8804
dc.descriptionThis report presents the assessment of the GIWA region Brazil Current, including drainage basins and their associated coastal/marine zones. Three separate sub-regions have been assessed within the region: the South/Southeast Atlantic Basins, East Atlantic Basins, and So Francisco River Basin. Increased anthropogenic pressures due to economic development and urbanisation in the coastal area have polluted the water environment and caused severe impact on important ecosystems such as coastal plains and mangrove ecosystems. Significant changes in the suspended solids transport/sedimentation dynamics in the river basins due to unsustainable land use practices associated to intense deforestation and damming has caused increasing erosion of coastal zones, siltation of riverbeds, and modified the stream flows resulting in periods of water scarcity and flooding in some basins. The root causes of pollution and habitat and community modification are identified for the bi-national Mirim Lagoon Basin, a transboundary freshwater body shared between Brazil and Uruguay, and Doce River Basin that hosts biomes of global importance. Potential remedial policy options are presented.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherUniversity of Kalmar on behalf of United Nations Environment Programme
dc.rightsPublicen_US
dc.subjectnatural resourceen_US
dc.subjectresource conservationen_US
dc.subjectresource managementen_US
dc.subjectwateren_US
dc.subjectwater analysisen_US
dc.subjectwater conservationen_US
dc.subjectwater consumptionen_US
dc.subjectwater demanden_US
dc.subjectwater managementen_US
dc.subjectwater monitoringen_US
dc.subjectwater protectionen_US
dc.subjectwater qualityen_US
dc.subjectwater resourceen_US
dc.subjectwater utilisationen_US
dc.subjectenvironmental assessmenten_US
dc.subjectfreshwater conservationen_US
dc.subjectfreshwater degradationen_US
dc.subjectfreshwater ecosystemen_US
dc.subjectfreshwater monitoringen_US
dc.subjectfreshwater pollutionen_US
dc.subjectfreshwater resourceen_US
dc.subjectpollution controlen_US
dc.subjectpollution costen_US
dc.subjectwater pollutionen_US
dc.subjectenvironmental conservationen_US
dc.subjectenvironmental impacten_US
dc.subjectenvironmental impact assessmenten_US
dc.subjectenvironmental protectionen_US
dc.subjectcoast protectionen_US
dc.subjectcoastal areaen_US
dc.subjectcoastal ecosystemen_US
dc.subjectcoastal environmenten_US
dc.subjectcoastal pollutionen_US
dc.subjectcoastal wateren_US
dc.subjectmarine conservation areaen_US
dc.subjectmarine ecosystemen_US
dc.subjectsea resourceen_US
dc.subjectsea water protectionen_US
dc.subjectcoastal fishingen_US
dc.subjectcoastal managementen_US
dc.subjectriver basin developmenten_US
dc.subjectriver managementen_US
dc.subjectwater resource conservationen_US
dc.subjectwater resource developmenten_US
dc.subjecttransboundary pollutionen_US
dc.subjectenvironmental pollutionen_US
dc.titleGlobal International Waters Assessment: Brazil Current, GIWA Regional Assessment 39
dc.typeReports, Books and Bookletsen_US
wd.identifier.sdgSDG 14 - Life Below Wateren_US
wd.identifier.sdgiohttp://purl.unep.org/sdg/SDGIO_00000048


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