Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt
@conference {2224, title = {Assessment of the Effects of the Expansion of the City of Estarreja on the Rational Land Use}, journal = {Euro-ELECS 2015 - 1st Latin-American and European Conference on Sustainable Buildings and Communities}, volume = {3}, year = {2015}, note = {Ser{\^o}dio F., Fernandes J., Mateus R., Bragan{\c c}a L. Assessment of the Effects of the Expansion of the City of Estarreja on the Rational Land Use, Euro-ELECS 2015, vol. 3, pp. 2045-2054, 2015.
}, month = {2015-07-21 00:00:00}, pages = {2045-2054}, publisher = {Multicomp}, address = {Guimar{\~a}es, Portugal}, abstract = {The management of urban environment, together with the preservation of the natural environment and the creation of a sustainable built environment, is a complex challenge for contemporary societies. In the name of progress, cities are contributing for the degradation of all surrounding ecosystems. Therefore there is an arising demand for developing new strategies and a new urban development paradigm settled in the search for the equilibrium between natural and built environments and efficient use of resources. The objective of this paper is to analyse how the urban expansion of the city of Estarreja took place in relation to the land use, based on the land capability classification maps of the area. Based in the results some sustainable development strategies that might be applied to the city are discussed. The obtained results demonstrate that the city has been growing faster then its population, consuming vast portions of land, since its growth as been occurring in a linear form. Despite this fact, results show that most of this expansion took place towards a territory of lower agricultural potential, when comparing to the location of its original settlement.
}, keywords = {rational land use., sustainable urban development, urban sustainability assessment}, isbn = {978-989-96543-8-9}, doi = {10.13140/RG.2.1.1991.0160}, author = {Ser{\^o}dio, F. and Fernandes, J. E. P. and Mateus, R. and Bragan{\c c}a, L.} }
The Centre for Territory, Environment and Construction (CTAC) is a research unit of the School of Engineering of University of Minho (UMinho), recognised by the “FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia” (Foundation for Science and Technology), associated to the Department of Civil Engineering (DEC), with whom it shares resources and namely human resources.
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Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt