title: Environmental Impact Assessment of reservoir construction: new perspectives for restoration economy, and development: the Belo Monte Power Plant case study.
abstract: The Environmental Impact Assessment of reservoir construction can be viewed as a new strategic perspective for the economic development of a region. Based on the principles of a watershed approach a interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary systemic view including biogeophysiographical, economic and socio environmental studies the new vision of a EIA provides a basic substratum for the restoration economy and an advanced model for the true development much well ahead of the modernization aspects of the project of a reservoir construction.
authors.affiliation: Instituto Internacional de Ecologia, São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Tundisi
authors.affiliation: Instituto Internacional de Ecologia, São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsumura-Tundisi
authors.affiliation: Instituto Internacional de Ecologia, São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: J E M
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Tundisi
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D064308:Ecological Parameter Monitoring; D017753:Ecosystem; D011210:Power Plants / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation; D045483:Rivers