Environmental scenarios in the Atibaia river basin

This paper presents an integrated analysis of the Atibaia river basin. An environmental diagnosis was performed in the study area. It was applied the methodology developed by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, in 2003, coupled to that done by Tricart and adapted by Ross (1994). We selected 33 environmental indicators which allowed physical and spatial representations of the basin and supported the development of scenarios. Three of them were developed for the Atibaia river basin, called trend, management, and conservation. We evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of the basin, which generated results that allowed to manage water resources and environmental conservation. The main conclusion is that, in the conservationscenario, best conditions to restore the environmental quality of the basin were observed.