Environmental Analysis and Zoning of Campeche Island (Florianópolis, Brazil): a Landscape Ecology Approach to Insular Management

Campeche Island is situated about 1,5 kilometres far from Santa Catarina Island (Florianópolis-SC), with a total area of 531.200 m2 and about 4,480 meters of shoreline. Due to encompasses a wide range of natural and archaeological resources, the island was considered as National Heritage by IPHAN si...

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Published inJournal of coastal research pp. 941 - 944
Main Authors Mazzer, A. M., Panitz, C. M. N.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Coastal Education & Research Foundation (CERF) 01.12.2006
Subjects
Anthropic principle
Coastal ecology
Environmental conservation
Environmental legislation
Landscape ecology
Landscapes
Tropical rain forests
Vegetation
Zoning
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Summary:Campeche Island is situated about 1,5 kilometres far from Santa Catarina Island (Florianópolis-SC), with a total area of 531.200 m2 and about 4,480 meters of shoreline. Due to encompasses a wide range of natural and archaeological resources, the island was considered as National Heritage by IPHAN since 2000. This study is an application of landscape ecology approach with emphasis in spatial configuration and landscape elements arrangement to improve with relevant information the island management and its environmental conservation. The methodology was shared in four steps of data processing: Inventory, Manipulation; Analysis and Synthesis. At the final, the data integration provides a environmental zoning based on landscape units potentialities and vulnerabilities. In the landscape structural analysis the spatial arrangement demonstrates a strong influence of two functional vectors: wind and water flow. The determination of landscape units was followed by the weighting each attribute showed that the place more vulnerable to these functional vectors and other natural hazards was the eastern steep rocky coast, southern scarps, and the northwest hillslope. The human use and the landscape analysis suggests five classes to the environmental zoning. This compartments requests distinct actions and decisions at the management level to keep an healthy functioning and structuring of the Campeche Island's landscape. The use of Landscape ecology approach was very useful to perform a spatial analysis using ecological criteria, and its application to an island helped to establish the most relevant factors in an environmental analysis to planning and management purposes.
ISSN:0749-0208
1551-5036