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PhD study, inserted in the territorial geographic reading studies highlights the social spatial context of new political subjects seeking to requalify their life space through diverse confronts, in the appropriation of recognition spaces. Occupying positions of power, and in many relationships, territorial processes consolidate the social, material and symbolic reproduction of the community. Consequent the territory recognition, titration and legitimacy manifested as a challenge. The thesis presents the Brejo dos Crioulos as a relational territory from field research, documental and bibliographic research, in the participation, perceptions and observation of relations, approaches, distances and acclimated experiences, in the last four years of the territory and, its relation processes, in the context of land conflicts, validation of constitutional rights and in the exercise of citizenship through the struggle for the right to maintain their daily routine, their ways of life, production modes, relations, identity and culture, focused on life that keeps the place-territory‟ called by them Brejo dos Crioulos. This research is intended to analyze how the heterogeneity from quilombolas‟ territory can be read in the geographic space, considering the specialties between propriety, appropriation, territory and territorialities, in the context of spatial homogenization by globalization. The geographic aspects indicates an immersion in the comprehension of the regional territorial processes, resulting historically from the diaspora of the black people from the north of Minas to a reflection about the production of the Brejo dos Crioulosquilomba traditional territory in the space of struggle, from relations established in many power fields, specialized in the in the context of the quilombola issue in Brazil. The symbolic power materialized regarding the historic oppression of the land property and the flexibility of the Brazilian state of territorial rights from traditional people and communities in part of the SertãoGerais creates new opportunities for reflection about collective rights and constitutional assurances. In this context it is understood that the spatial production from what is presented as place-territory‟ Brejo dos Crioulos is a result of the relational propriety of the territory in the multi dimensionalities from the space lived and the used territory. The cultural landscape of its spatial identity, its existential content, producers and power managers feeds the spatial developments and the expansion of new frontiers. From the fusion of the brejeiro and crioulo space, the relational territory is then designed as a synthesis of social content and the spatial forms that translates its existence. In this case, comprehend the frontier relations between commoditized spaces for the disorders and not commoditized territories that from its spatial relations produces the development of its existence by the critic geographic action resulting in the relational territory.

Observing the historical and spatial development process of Brazilian cities, it can be seen that the actions were planned with a focusing on motoring and individual circulation (specially automobiles and motorcycles) over the urban mobility nonmotorized (walkers and cyclists) and public transportation. As a result of this process, we can see cities with impaired quality of life and where we find few spaces for nonmotorized traffic (on foot or by bicycles), long traffic jams, public transport decline, increased levels of pollution, conflicts and traffic accidents. This fact has a negative impact for sustainable urban mobility, because the spaces are now not accessible and they don\'t offer a safe and adequate infrastructure for the displacements on foot, by bicycle or public transport. The Trips Generators are enterprises that settle in urban areas and, most of the time, they change the dynamics of urban mobility and accessibility of the area of influence where they are inserted and it compromises the quality and sustainability of urban mobility. The main objective is to analyze, from a quantitative point of view (Measures for Sustainable Urban Mobility - MSUM) and qualitative (technical and diagnostic evaluation), the road infrastructure conditions offered to non-motorized modes (walkers and cyclists) and public transportation in Trips Generators areas in Uberlândia-MG. The methodology involves a direct search (data collection obtained through field research and semi-structured interviews) and indirect research with collecting data on public agencies and academic papers. The results confirmed the hypothesis on the thesis that interventions and actions that occur in the areas of Trip Generators influences don\'t consider the infrastructure needs and appropriate conditions for sustainable and inclusive urban mobility that considers as a priority non-motorized modes (walkers and cyclists) and public transportation. Both in quantitative approach (MSUM) and the qualitative approach (technical and diagnostic evaluation) the results showed that the infrastructure of urban mobility in the areas of influence of the analyzed Trip Generators don\'t meet satisfactorily and safely displacement on foot, by bicycle and by public transport, it is therefore necessary interventions.

A center pivot irrigation system was observed to determine water accumulation under the canopy of mature coffee shrub at the expense of water falling on the central region between rows. This fact is justified given the irrigation depth intercepted by what is called the shade effect. The current study describes, schematizes and experimentally proves this shade effect and considers potential savings in water and electricity that are a consequence of this phenomenon. The experiment was carried out on a 115.33 ha plantation of Coffea arabica spaced 4m x 0.7m. Half of this area was planted with the cultivar Catuai and the other half with Mundo Novo. The center pivot irrigation system had 11 towers spread out over a 608.58 m cantilevered span. The description and schematization of the \"shade effect\" were based on field observations and understanding the center pivot function via technical manuals. The \"shade effect\" was investigated using wooden structures covered by plastic sheets (150 microns thick). The structures were positioned between the spans of the last 10 towers to measure irrigation levels both under the shrub canopy and between rows. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and analysis of variance. It was found that irrigation depths under the plant canopies were greater and statistically different from irrigation depths between rows for both cultivars. Specifically, plant interception caused, on average, a 30.4% concentration of the irrigation depth at the outer canopy edge. There was no statistical difference between the shade effect caused by either cultivar despite a height difference of approximately 80 cm. Finally, farmers could achieve water and energy savings by adjusting irrigation timing to take advantage of the shade effect.

Environmental Education (EE) is a formation process of values, skills and attitudes, and it has as view the construction of Sustainable Development (SD). The aim of this study is to understand how the EE is developed in the city of Uberlândia (MG), considering the theoretical concepts defined by the International Conferences, technical and legal principles established by the Public Policy, the relationships established between the main active social actors and the environmental perception of the population, has the planning and Environmental Management (EM) as guiding elements of analysis and reflection process. The specific objectives are to identify and characterize the main actions developed by EE social actors that represent the population from Uberlândia; analyze the integration level and partnerships established between the social actors; understand how does the definition of EE tasks, the level of the projects/programs formalization, sharing of results with the community; identify the main obstacles faced by the social actors in the development of EE tasks, as well to know what is the target audience and the professionals responsible for driving these actions; to identify and evaluate the Environmental Management System s importance to the success of EE actions and evaluate the level of awareness and the involvement of the population from Uberlândia in relation to the environmental issues. The methodology is based on qualitative research. The city of Uberlândia (MG) was taken as a case of study. It was accomplished a literature review and some interviews with representatives of 40 institutions (schools, businesses, public agencies, professional associations, NGO s) and 200 citizens. The results indicate that the population has a naturalistic and ecological vision of \"environment\". It wasn t noticed with concern the causes of environmental problems. 61,5% of the interviewees have too much interest in learning or how to conduct environmental preservation actions. 76% evaluate that the consequences of their daily actions can harm the environment. 52% evaluate the environmental conditions of Uberlândia as regular. 71% don t know companies that develop environmental actions protection. 79% do their daily activities looking for not harm \"the environment\". To inform and supervise offenders are considered efficient ways to promote friendly environmental attitudes. 60,5 % say that they consume more than the necessary. 51% don t do the separation of the recyclable waste at home. The main institutions that influence people to adopt environmentally correct attitudes are the media, followed by school, family and the place of work. Institutions develop EE in a timely manner and without continuity. The main obstacles faced are people\'s resistance to change, bureaucracy and lack of human and financial resources. The integration between institutions is incipient. There is a lack of registration, formalization and socialization of EE activities. The need to improve the process of EM and expand the commitment of managers is considered essential. It can noticed that there is a need for the institutions to adopt a permanent environmental policy and continuing to encourage people to adopt right attitudes. The implementation of the Local Agenda 21, with active participation of the community and its institutions, is an alternative to that EE is consolidated as a Public Policy. EE and EM are complementary processes and inseparable, indispensable to the SD path.

Water has been being called in the last times of the blue gold . However, a big part of the water resources of the planet are shared by two or more sovereign State. This brings afloat the need from thinking in a joint administration, in a species of international solidarity. This reciprocal action, then, implies in a new vision of the state sovereignty concept over their natural resources. This study is about the form witch the States organizes, or they would organize, to resolve the enormous conflicts that arise in the management of one very irreplaceable good, even when it has to equilibrate the natural abundance of any State and the water stress of another. This way, this work has as general goal to propose new forms to treat the transboundary water resources in Brazil, specifically, and in the world in general. To reach this objective, it analyzes the evolution of the environmental protection in the planet, it studies the transboundary water resources protection in the international plan, it evaluates the juridical posture and Brazil's Policy front to these resources and, at the end, it proposes a new form to work with the transboundary superficial fresh water resources, besides it suggest the creation of a World Organization of Water as international forum to agglutinate common interests of the countries with fresh water big reserves.

Due to intense changes in the landscape over the last century, as well as the improvement of study techniques and prevision models of environmental scenarios changes, geography has played an important part for being a science that presents an integrated vision of phenomena, allowing planning and management activities, as well as the impacts mitigation efficiency. Paranaíba River, whose drainage basin was chosen as the area of the method application, presents an area of about 230.000 km², with a diversity of extremely interesting environments for environmental studies. Therefore, this research had as the main objective evaluating the data use of MODIS/AQUA sensor to estimate the real evapotranspiration in the river basin of Rio Paranaíba. The estimates are important to understand processes that compose the hydrological cycle and, consequently, the water availability; therefore we accomplished these estimates using SEBAL (Surface Energy Balance Algorithms for Land) algorithm, developed by Bastiaanssen (1995). This model uses physical principles involved in the reflection, transmission and absorption of energy by the surface, requiring few data collected in the field and, therefore, allowing the study of extensive areas or to regions with few data available or of difficult access. The model applies as to images of TM/Landsat sensor, as to images of MODIS (TERRA or AQUA) sensor, since the last ones are the most recommended to extensive areas due to covering areas of 10° x 10°. From the modeling results, it s possible to notice that as the radiation balance to the surface, as well as the estimated heat fluxes and the real evapotranspiration present a strong relation towards the land use and vegetation coverage and, secondarily, with the seasonal rainfall variation, with identified higher levels in images between the months of November and March, which correspond to the rainy period of the region. Regarding the land use, areas with a dense vegetation coverage (silviculture and forests), as well as the reflecting pools of hydroelectric power plants present higher levels of evapotranspiration in every month, while cerrado and pasture areas don t present significant differences between them. It wasn t possible to notice great differences in the registered values in areas of irrigated and not irrigated agriculture, mainly due to the low spatial resolution of the products generated by MODIS/AQUA images, which is 500 meters. One of the failures presented by the model is in the fact that it doesn t consider specific data of the soils in the evapotranspiration estimate, since the soils present distinguish patterns of retention and loss of water in different processes. Another failure can be found in the estimate of sensitive heat flux, which needs climatic data, specially wind speed, to its calibration. From the analysis of the results and, considering the bibliography about the theme, we can consider a reliability of the estimated data over 90% for the used scale, which is 1:2.000.000.

This work aims to present and discuss some issues concerning Higher Education in Northern Minas Gerais region, with emphasis on the Geography Course of FUNM, in the main city of region: Montes Claros (MG). The development in the 1960s, in the norte-mineira region, is exposed through industrialization via Superintendence of Northeast Development (SUDENE) and also represented through the implementation of the higher education that was a consequence of the joints and longings of political and economic elites to meet local and regional demand, being the higher education seen as social mobility and propelling of the regional development. The overall objective of this thesis is to understand how the higher teacher training policy adopted in the country influenced the Geography Course offered by FUNM in the period 1964-1971, emphasizing the unfoldings of thereof to the development of Montes Claros / MG. It constitute in evidencing, also, that the concepts of development manifested in the North of Minas Gerais, with highlight in Montes Claros (MG), correspond to the development manifested in the national context. Higher education in the North of Minas Gerais also accompanied the process of internalization of this level of education throughout Brazil, this development which sometimes manifested exclusionary and unequal. We established the Curricular Structure of the course as focus of analysis and we realized that the course of Geography of FUNM fully followed the opinion 412/1962, on which was signed the first minimum curriculum for the degree course in geography, who happened to have a duration of four years. Therefore, the methodology used consisted of various sources such as: legislation; ata of course implementation; local newspapers; data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics - IBGE of the 1950s and 1960s from State of Minas Gerais; programs of the subjects of the first classes of the Geography Course from State of Minas Gerais; sites; memorialists books; theses; dissertations; work completion course and oral history. The relevance of this study is justified by presenting contributions to the theoretical debate and also geo-historical about the development of the city of Montes Claros (MG), besides the relation of this development with the implantation of the Superintendence of Northeast Development - SUDENE and the implantation of Faculty of Philosophy, Science and Letters - FAFIL belonging to the Norte-Mineira Foundation of Higher Education - FUNM / Course of Geography / licensure. The results obtained show that, within the time frame of this study, the graduates in geography had a strong presence in montesclarense society. The social recognition was visible both those linked to academia, as to connected to other professional areas, always guided by the visibility of Norte-Mineira Foundation of Higher Education, which has become regional point of reference in vocational training. Lastly, we point out that the role of the Degree Course in Geography of FUNM was fulfilled to train teachers to work in the norte-mineira region, contributing in fact to regional development.

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The operating practices of natural Cerrado resources were intensive and degraded the ecosystem due to the fragmentation of natural habitats process because it changes the continuity of native vegetation areas, causing changes in the structure and composition of the same and thus cause the loss of biodiversity. Arises landscape ecology that unlike ecosystem ecology that seeks to understand and explain the vertical relationship of biota with their environment, ie the synergy between the various trophic levels of the same community, seeks to understand the horizontal relations of biota with the environment , i.e. the interaction between different communities distributed throughout the space. From the need to advance the studies on the regional scale fragmented habitats landscape, this study aimed to evaluate the spatial patterns of fragmented landscape by the research method proposed by the Landscape Ecology and contribute methodologically to connectivity conservation management for habitats Basin of Araguari River, located in the middle region of Triangulo Mineiro and Alto Paranaiba, Minas Gerais, through the proposition of ecological corridors. The ecosystem research of the interaction processes between headquarters and forest fragments allowed to ride the conceptual and mathematical structures that enabled spatial modeling and the development of studies covers an area of 22,146.23 square kilometers. For the mapping of native vegetation in 2014, the images are the OLI / Landsat 8 sensor has a spatial resolution of 30 meters. As a result, the study area has 149,521 units of forest fragments of native vegetation. From this the quality of these habitats was evaluated through metrics Landscape Ecology concerning the shape, size, edge density, the edge length and central area. Mathematical models were adopted to evaluate the spatial heterogeneity of the landscape in order to identify areas probalísticas of individuals to a species X having dispersion power of up to 3.6 km across the spatial scale. It diagnosed that the downstream portion of the river Araguari spring presents considerable percolation both from east to west, the lengthwise (index ≥. Pc). In the central portion of the study area it is recommended to build connectivity structures to provide percolation in north-south direction (index ≤. Pc). In addition to the habitats percolation model was evaluated the matrix permeability of the condition of this genre, it was realized that the dispersion of possibilities taking into account the shortest distance present difficulties imposed by the matrix, since, 4363.1 km of potential routes dispersion for this species are located in areas of pastures and 873.419 km in agricultural areas. Another threat to the Cerrado fauna is the road network which carries varying effects on habitats and the trampling of wildlife. It is understood that the roads may have degrees distinct susceptibility to the danger of being hit for wildlife. This review took into account the spatial organization of fragments of native vegetation and the close relationship of the same towards the roads. The River Basin Araguari has 1774 km of road network. 22 sites were suggested with high need, 7 locations with moderate needs and 6 places with low requirements for the implementation of safe passage for wildlife. After identifying the gaps habitats in the study area was proposed a methodology for priority choice for conservation / restoration of habitats and proposed network (network) ecological corridors for the River Basin Araguari.

Environmental management must be based on knowledge of the physical environment. Large cities have their policies and develop actions to equate the problem caused by different types of use of the natural environment. In smaller areas, public power finds it difficult to implement policies, or by other interests, due to lack of workers, equipment for work or lack of financial resources. The fact is that the problems related to the environment are not restricted to large cities. Verissimo also has environmental issues as critical as in any other city. This research had as the main objective the characterization and environmental analysis of the physical environment as a subsidy to the development of environmental public policies. For this analysis, we used the book Eco dynamic of Tricart (1977) as a critical source for systemic reviews and interpretation of the use of the landscape. Maps theme were developed for this research and the Geodynamic units and environmental fragility is the primary, therefore, it gathers the generated information during the search and it enables greater knowledge of the entire area of the city. For preparation of this map, relief was the main element for the distinction of magazines and geodynamic environments. Verissimo is a city which is in transition to become a highly degraded environment. It is necessary the adoption of conservation practices to change the precarious situation. Therefore, it is important to know its environment better.

The Cerrado has climatic conditions that offer extremely favorable conditions to successive occurrences of fires, which cause serious environmental, social and economic losses. Therefore, this research had as objective to develop a methodology for modeling of forest fire risk in Cerrado areas, from a structural index and other dynamic thereby foster the development of a monthly mapping of integrated risk of fire. For the development and application of the methodology was chosen as the study area the municipality of São Valério, located in the Mesoregion of Eastern Tocantins. This choice was made due to the presence of several phytophysiognomies of Cerrado, large areas of pasture and also recurrent occurrences of fires. It's necessary to highlight that all data used in the proposed methodology are from remote sensing. The structural fire hazard is based on the combination of factors that don't vary in a short period of time, being considered, in this study, the following factors: distance from roads and urban areas, land use and native vegetation cover, hypsometry, slope and orientation from the slopes. The dynamic risk has as an objective detecting changes in the variables capable of causing changes in the flammability of forest fuels, being raised, in this research, the factors: precipitation, water deficit and NDVI. Was generated, for each factor a fire susceptibility map, with classes ranging from high, moderate and low. It was possible to consider as high susceptibility to fire those areas which showed the following conditions: near roads and urban areas; occupied by the categories of landuse and vegetation cover Park Savanna, Grassy-Woody Savanna and Cultivated Pasture; altitudes up to 600 m; slopes over 40%; orientation of slopes facing north, northeast and northwest; monthly precipitation less than 25 mm; monthly water deficit over 80 mm; and NDVI values between 0.00 to 0.25. The fire susceptibility maps were associated from a multi-criteria analysis in a GIS environment, using a weighted linear combination technique, thus generating the structural risk maps and dynamic forest fire risk. Then, the structural and dynamic risks were added, generating monthly maps of integrated fire risk. The results showed that the proposed methodology enables a spatial and temporal analysis, which in turn facilitates the development and formulation of strategic prevention actions in the critical areas, undoubtedly providing greater effectiveness of the measures taken and optimizing material resources to such intervention.

The main objective of this thesis was to analyze the tectonic structure and relate to the morphology of the basin of Stream Douradinho and Stowage. This area is located in contact with Chapada relief dissected the Rio Tijuco basin, south of the city of Uberlândia. The literature review of the genesis and evolution of the Paraná Basin was important goal for inserted the search area in the larger context. Digital processing of morphometric data was one tool used to analyze the geometry of the shapes and analyze the behavior litoestrutural context. These data were obtained through field work, photogrammetry and remote sensing. Efforts during the Cretaceous-Tertiary caused the uplift of the Alto Paranaiba, tectonic feature responsible for moving old parallel fault zones to Suture Itumbiara and Flexura Goiania. The tectonic movement acted dismantling the deposits of the Bauru Group present in the area, generating structural depressions (Graben) Uberaba to south and east lifting the Chapada (Horst). It is considered that the regional paleogeographic heritage kept the faulting systems NE-SW and NW - SW reflecting distinct stress field in the reactivation of old systems. Thus, the effects of faulting systems in this area conditioned: a) the drainage patterns; b) the anomalies observed in major drainages; c) the regularity and spacing of the drainage channels; d) the regularity in the spacing of ways, either by possible uniformity of the rocks of the Bauru Group in the area, either by conditioning brittle failure; e) the large number of 1st order rivers; f) the asymmetry of the drainage channels; g) the alignment of gullies, h) NE catches in shorter segments in progress, or eminent and i) desenível topographic between the plateau and dissected relief of the Tijuco river basin.

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Wetlands in tropical regions constitute an important frontier of knowledge due to the complexity of the mineralogical constituents of the biogeochemistry dynamic and the roles it plays in maintaining the Cerrado biome sustainability. Occur in these areas of topographic depression, hydromorphic soils, characterized by the condition of poor drainage and waterlogging. Already in Plains occur when replaying morphological patterns, characterized as lots of semielliptical lands and depressions, known as \'murundus fields . Two thoughts talk about their training, one that deals with the geomorphological origins of large heaps, describing them because of differential erosion of the land, and another that assigns to the biological origin, which would be promoted by mesofauna, primarily by termites, so cumulative usually. In the microregion of Uberlândia in the Triângulo Mineiro (MG) presents several murundus fields, in the transition between the plateau (drained) and areas of depression. The objectives of this research were to determine the biogeochemical aspects of morphological and murundus, from chemical, physical and biological indicators, and assessing the ability of mathematical models about the interactions and correspondence of variables and the optimization and simulation of indicators in a same catena. The data obtained from soil analysis reports sampled, correspond to open trenches in areas of murundus, plateaus, edge and center of the depression, surface and depth, and understand the complex sorptive, total oxides and textural aspects. The highest coefficients of significant response to organic matter in generalized linear model (GLM), were obtained in the areas of border and Central depression (10.14 and 11.84, respectively), but decrease quickly, varying greatly from one stratum to another deep (-7.45 and 5.01 of 51-100 cm, respectively). Although smaller significant coefficients observed in the GLM, to murundus areas in (8.13 of 00-20 cm; 5.57 of 21-50 cm), more uniform trend was observed as to the variation up to 100 cm (3.04 of 51-100 cm). The traces of the hydromorphy and bioturbation activity in the fields of large heaps are indispensable for understanding the dynamic character of heterogeneization of profile and primarily, of accumulation of organic matter and increase cargo complex on the ground. On the plateau, in all the proposed mathematical models, it has not been possible to observe significant response capacity to the levels of organic matter. Multivariate non-hierarchical models, contacted if more correspondence between the factors that make up the complex indicators sorption (grouped) and the areas represented by the environments with any trace of hydromorphy (mu, T1P2) or typically hydromorphic (bd, T1P3; cd, T1P4), reiterating the composition of the generalized linear model. As for the overlay simulation of responses, it was evidenced only strong resemblance between the murundus and the edges of the depression, as the behavior of the relationship Fe(OH)3/Al2O3. The results of simulation and optimization demonstrated that the murundus areas with better set of geomorphological attributes for MO content expression and values of CTC, under a minimum parameter range of Al2O3 (34.9487%) and a maximum range of Fe(OH)3 (9.2278%).

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As a result of the Scientific Revolution which began in the 16th and 17th centuries, modernity characterizes a moment in the history of planet Earth when we human beings have managed to see ourselves separated from nature and rationally superior; therefore, devoid of essential subjective dimensions. Thus, wondering like nomadic beings blinded by the light of Cartesianism, we voraciously started to pillage natural resources which at our side should facilitate survival conditions for all generations to come. Paradoxically, in an attempt to reach high levels of material well-being, we have distanced ourselves from our essence and have ended up building an environmental society socially unjust, violent, self-centered and extremely materialistic. Consequently, a group of values that form a more sustainable and welcoming world vision have had to provide room for other essential values to implement this societal model. The 1960 s was described as being the beginning of important movements like the environmental movement. In its context, the necessity to adopt an educational demeanor which could guarantee the permanence of preservation deeds proposed by this movement came about. Then, in the 1970 s Environmental Education, as a result of various national and international discussions, gave emphasis to the formation of values in children. Our research looked for data, which could characterize Environmental Education nowadays, in two schools in Araguari, MG Brazil that focused on the first few years of primary school. Our research put us face to face with a reality that leaves no doubt: Environmental Education deviated from its objective to work with values, which emphasize concepts passed on in an attempt to increase environmental awareness is not successful, because it doesn t touch on the important dimensions in a subjective point of view. In the midst of the reality, we built a methodological proposal in Environmental Education for the educators of the primary schools based on the revival of traditional knowledge. Our proposal does not represent an attempt to rewind the film, but above all to call each educator to seek abandoned values in their own history and in the history of their people with the possibility of rethinking life of the Earth planet.

American Cutaneous Leishmaniosis ACL and American Visceral - AVL are non-contagious infect-parasitic diseases of zootic character, caused by protozoa of several species of the gender Leishmania that attack man, several species of domestic and wild animals. These diseases are considered re-emerging infections that reappear or are spread out in a way they can reach other areas in which its presence had not been noticed before. The World Health Organization considers ACL as being the second most important disease caused by protozoa when it concerns public health. The vectors of ACL and of AVL are phlebotomine of the Lutzomyia genus. Worldwide about 800 species are known of which 229 are found in Brazil. Of these approximately 40 species are considered either suspect or proved to be Leishmaniosis vectors. The objective of this work was to monitor the phlebotominic fauna relating it to environmental alterations and climatic elements. The researched area was the one of construction of the barrage of the Hydroelectric Power Plant Capim Banco I, in Araguari river basin, in Uberlândia, MG, before and during the construction, and after the filling of the lake. The barrage of the Hydroelectric Plant Capim Branco I was built in the latitude 18° 47'25"S and longitude 48°08'50"W, in the Km 150 of Araguari river, starting in its. This research was accomplished from May 2003 to December 2006, being initiated by a demarcation of the plots for captures. Two capture plots were chosen in the area of the Hydroelectric Plant. The first plot was set beside the bridge of Pau Furado and the second one approximately 184m of the edge of the river. To capture the phlebotomine Shanon traps were used with the light of a gas lantern with screens of 500 candles, 3 luminous traps of CDC type (Center on Disease Control), with 6-volt batteries each, and suction tube, capturer of Castro. In order to study the environmental dynamics of the area, an Ecological Profile was developed. 87 captures were accomplished with 522 hours of field work and 1500 hours of laboratory work. 301 phlebotomine of two genders being 160 Brumptomyia and 141 Lutzomyia. 199 were captured in the CDC traps and 104 in the Shannon trap. 135 were male and 166 female. The capture of two species responsible for carrying ACL (L. whitmani and L. neivai) and the species responsible for carrying AVL in the Southeast Area (L. longipalpis), shows the necessity of a System of Environmental Surveillance in Health with prevention actions and phlebotomine control, in order to avoid risks to the residents of the settlement "Vila Nova" as well as to the visitors looking for leisure and fishing.

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