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%X Models for the simulation of urban land use change have continuously undergone refinements in the latest decades, what rendered them powerful tools to support decision-making, policy making and initiatives in the realm of town planning. They may meet the most diverse ends, such as the monitoring and control of urban growth, evaluation of infrastructure investment needs, identification of conflicts between urban expansion and site suitability, amongst others. This paper is committed to present a simulation model of urban land use change for the town of Bauru, located in the central west of São Paulo State, Brazil. The thereof generated forecasts indicate how the uncontrolled urban growth may represent serious risks to the water spring of the town and provide thus subsidies for assessing the human dimensions of the vulnerability resulting from threats to water resources due to processes of land use change taking place in the urban fringe of Bauru.
%E Sánchez-Rodríguez, Roberto,
%E Bonilla, Adriana,
%T Computer Models and Forecasts of Land Use Change in Urban Areas
%@isbn 978599875025
%@electronicmailaddress almeida@dsr.inpe.br
%@secondarytype PRE LI
%@nexthigherunit 8JMKD3MGPCW/3ER446E
%K urbanization, global environmental change, sustainable development, Latin America, urban modelling.
%B Urbanization, Global Environmental Change, and Sustainable Development in Latin America
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%@usergroup marciana
%@group DSR-INPE-MCT-BR
%3 Versao_Ingles_UrLib_OBT.PDF
%C São José dos Campos, SP
%@tertiarymark Trabalho Vinculado à Tese/Dissertação
%F self-archiving-INPE-MCTIC-GOV-BR
%2 sid.inpe.br/mtc-m17@80/2007/05.08.18.02.25
%@affiliation Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)
%@versiontype publisher
%I Digital Press
%P 161-182
%4 sid.inpe.br/mtc-m17@80/2007/05.08.18.02
%D 2007
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%7 1
%A Almeida, Cláudia Maria de,
%@dissemination NTRSNASA; BNDEPOSITOLEGAL.
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