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THE ENVIRONMENT DEGRADATION AS A FUNCTION OF THE 
RANDOM URBAN SETTLEMENT - THE CASE OF SANTA CATARINA 
Dora Maria Orth 
Jucilei Cordini 
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC 
Depto. de Engenharia Civil 
Campus Universitário - Trindade 
Caixa Postal 476 
88040-900 - Florianópolis - SC, Brazil 
ISPRS Commission VII / Working Group 9 
ABSTRACT 
The beaches, lagoons, mountains, dunes and swamp areas of the Santa Catarina island form ecosystems with 
great natural beauty and large weakness. The beauty of these ecosystems is the reason of the increasing 
tourism, on the other hand, the tourism itself is a real threatening on these ecosystems. This threatening can 
be minimized whether or not the land use is planned and executed efficiently. The City administration has 
difficulties in keep up the control over the land use for many reasons, among them, the technical reasons. 
These technical reasons are very dependent on the lack information about the actual local reality and 
following its evolution. 
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