<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <article key="pdf/10010166" mdate="2019-02-04 00:00:00"> <author>Juliana C. Alencar and Monica Ferreira do Amaral Porto</author> <title>Restoring, Revitalizing and Recovering Brazilian Rivers Application of the Concept to Small Basins in the City of S&amp;atilde;o Paulo, Brazil</title> <pages>183 - 189</pages> <year>2019</year> <volume>13</volume> <number>3</number> <journal>International Journal of Urban and Civil Engineering</journal> <ee>https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10010166</ee> <url>https://publications.waset.org/vol/147</url> <publisher>World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology</publisher> <abstract>Watercourses in Brazilian urban areas are constantly being degraded due to the unplanned use of the urban space; however, due to the different contexts of land use and occupation in the river watersheds, different intervention strategies are required to requalify them. When it comes to requalifying watercourses, we can list three main techniques to fulfill this purpose restoration, revitalization and recovery; each one being indicated for specific contexts of land use and occupation in the basin. In this study, it was demonstrated that the application of these three techniques to three small basins in S&amp;amp;atilde;o Paulo city, listing the aspects involved in each of the contexts and techniques of requalification. For a protected watercourse within a forest park, renaturalization was proposed, where the watercourse is preserved in a state closer to the natural one. For a watercourse in an urban context that still preserves open spaces for its maintenance as a landscape element, an intervention was proposed following the principles of revitalization, integrating the watercourse with the landscape and the population. In the case of a watercourse in a harder context, only recovery was proposed, since the watercourse is found under the road system, which makes it difficult to integrate it into the landscape. </abstract> <index>Open Science Index 147, 2019</index> </article>