Uploaded on 2014-11-30 by TagoreVillarim

[1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/1417381387567869.jpg Urbans Stock and Flows Water and Energy I live in the city of Recife, state of Pernambuco, in northeastern Brazil. This is an area characterized by tropical climate and has long droughts. Thus, to water supplies is strategic for survival and for regional development. In rural areas, water for human and animal consumption is stored in dams and underground tanks, verifying public and private dams on farms. In urban areas, the water supply throughout the year is held from large reservoirs after undergoing treatment plants and be brought to the homes of a large distribution network. This system depends on rainfall, especially in the first six months of the year, when water supplies are formed. In addition to human consumption, water is stored in reservoirs also to generate power and irrigation in agriculture. So a good rainy season it is important to restore the water supplies of the reservoirs of hydroelectric plants in the region. CHESF - Cia. De Energy of San Francisco, the main supplier of electricity in the Northeast region, has a generating capacity of 11,000 MW from hydroelectric plants that depend primarily on rainfall to fill large reservoirs. Food The supply of fresh produce food of Recife is done from small family producers located largely in rural areas of the Metropolitan Region of Recife (RMR), with production being distributed by CEASA (Central Supply and Logistics Pernambuco ), supermarket chains (small, medium and large), public markets and public fairs. Drawing highlight government programs such as PRONAF and the MANDALA, financed by BNDES and the Bank of Brazil, to support family farming and food production close to large urban centers, as well as the growth of organic agricultural production and the expansion of trade of fruit and organic vegetables in recent years. People Recife has a center that concentrates most of the commercial activities and city services. Although we did see a trend towards decentralization of activities to other neighborhoods in the city in recent decades, the concentration is still considerable, verifying, so many neighborhoods bedrooms, where people live, and neighborhoods where people work. One consequence of this city model is that the center is desert night, causing security problems. Another problem arising from this model is the very bad traffic on the way schedules for work early in the morning and back home time, in the late afternoon and early evening. Thus, a better urban planning, to consider both the revitalization of the city center for residence and as the best distribution of economic activities in urban territory, would improve the stocks and flows of people in the city and therefore the flow of vehicles on streets and avenues of the city, reducing thus congestion and unnecessary waste of fuel and hence greenhouse gas emissions. Land Recife is a city and located on the coast. In recent decades, the city suffered a lot with the advance of the sea, noting the need to work for the recovery of land of beaches of Recife and neighboring cities that make up the metropolitan area and suffered with the advance of the sea. It was carried out a project for the recovery of land ranges from the beaches that had disappeared with the advance of the waters. The first city to carry out the project for recovery of the beaches of land was Jaboatão Guararapes, nearby Recife. This recovery project of the beach strip of land for leisure protected the buildings that were threatened by the advance of the sea, reclassified a strip of land for construction of an avenue for vehicles and enabled the construction of new buildings on the waterfront land that still had not been busy. Regards, Tagore Villarim de Siqueira