A OCUPAÇÃO DAS VÁRZEAS NO ALTO TIETÊ E A REPRODUÇÃO DESTE MODELO URBANO NA BACIA DO RIO BAQUIRIVU GUAÇU, GUARULHOS E ARUJÁ - SP

Abstract

Although floods are natural phenomena, conditioned by various aspects of the physical environment, in urban areas, man, through their economic activities, transforms these events into troubles. In this context, the experience accumulated over the twentieth century in the Alto Tietê watershed is an important reference for the analysis of land use in the Baquirivu Guaçu watershed as an experience to be considered in the selective of measures to be taken for inundation control.