Natural capital assessment for Canela's master plan

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

How do you put a number on a city's natural capital, and use it to balance development with conservation?

Ecosystem services and natural capital assessment for the revision of Canela's Plano Diretor (urban master plan). The core deliverable was a habitat quality map using InVEST and the Equivalent Biodiversity Area (EBA) metric, providing the scientific basis for a no-net-loss compensation mechanism within the municipality. The work also covered vegetation indices, hydrological indicators, water balance modeling, soil loss estimation, geological and hydrological risk mapping, and stream carrying capacity analysis.

Gramado expansion plan

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

How do you define environmental boundaries for urban expansion on a plateau with sensitive wetlands and a conservation unit?

Environmental characterization for Gramado's planned urban expansion to the north, conducted through the NTU at UFRGS. I provided land use assessment, topographic analysis, drainage mapping using high-resolution DEM (~1 m), and a hydrologically-grounded proposal for the buffer zone of a conservation unit, arguing that catchment boundaries, not arbitrary distances, should define the protection area.

Urban Planning on Iporã Possantti, PhD

Natural capital assessment for Canela's master plan

Gramado expansion plan