Cristina Matos Ricardo Bento Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Wastewater Treatment, Sustainability, Environment, Water Resources Management
C - MADE - Centre of Materials and Building Technologies, University of Beira Interior, 6201-001 Covilh
I am Cristina Matos Ricardo Bento, belonging to C - MADE - Centre of Materials and Building Technologies, University of Beira Interior, 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal. Interested in the field of Wastewater Treatment, Sustainability, Environment, Water Resources Management.
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Author(s): Cristina Matos Ricardo Bento and Isabel Bentes
Urban Land-Cover, Urbanization Type and Implications for Storm Water Quality: Vila Real as a Case Study
Land use changes associated with urban expansion, such as vegetation removal, replacement of earlier pervious areas with impervious surfaces and drainage channel alterations, consistently result in changes to the characteristics of the surface runoff quality. These consequences are due to the introduction of pollutants of physical, chemical and biological origin resulting from various anthropogenic activities common to urban areas.In the present study the main aim was to characterize the view moreĀ»