Principles of Sustainability as Guidelines of Actions for the Solution of Stormwater Management Related Problems (PAP014335)

Código

PAP014335

Autores

Sidnei Pereira da Silva, Bernardo Arantes do Nascimento Teixeira, Ademir Paceli Barbassa, Xavier Gabarrell i Durany, Joan Rieradevall

Tema

Urban Floods

Resumo

The objective of this work was to establish specific principles qualified of guiding administrators in making decisions related to stormwater problems, and, specifically guide them to continue this work and the development of sustainability indicators for stormwater management. As methodology, in order to establish specific principles for stormwater management, the goal was to search for general principles about sustainability, disparately present in literature, which, most times, present generic and open characters, being qualified of application in any situation or place. From the search results, there was a re-reading and interpretation of the generic principles, searching its adequacy to problems related to urban stormwater. We can see the same methodology for raising issues. As a result, we could issue thirty-six related problems and thirteen principles, which are specific to stormwater management and from the results obtained in the survey; we were able to make correlations of the principles, which were able to lead actions related to the respective problems. This way, we could conclude that it is possible to use these specific principles in different situations, as orientation in the elaboration of public policies and in the development of sustainability indicators, aiming at enhancing the planning and support of decision-making. They will also be useful for orientation to the next phases in the project, in the elaboration of sustainability indicators, targeted to stormwater management.