Author(s): Azevedo, Ana Catarina Leão Serra de
Date: 2014
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/7405
Origin: Repositório da UTL
Subject(s): territorial planning; National Ecological Reserve; waterlines headwater; aquifer recharge; susceptibility index; landscape
Mestrado em Arquitectura Paisagista - Instituto Superior de Agronomia
Presenting as fundamental objective the preservation of the essential biophysical structures to maintain landscape quality, REN represented an important role in the Portuguese landscape ecosystems prevention. However, having been a pioneering document, published in the national legislation at the beginning of the definition of European guidelines for the territorial community spatial planning, has been losing the original strength status and appears highly predictable its dissolution in other legal systems. Having suffered several changes, is this work option to study the Waterline headwaters situation - knowing their actual disguise under “Strategic areas of aquifer protection and recharge” – fact that doesn’t reveal scientific sense. As such, were applied new strategic guidelines, concerning Recharge Areas delimitation, in two casestudies – Évora and Vila Nova de Paiva - what have confirmed that its actual delimitation does not ensure the Headwaters protection
