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Bordagi, Julien. "De la ville décidée à la ville vécue : Émergence et croissances des petites villes indiennes." Thesis, Avignon, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015AVIG1145/document.
Full textThis thesis of Geography enriches the theoretical corpus of urban, from the study of threesmall towns in Tamil Nadu. Three approaches of the small Indian towns are developed. Àpolitical-institutional approach gives the framework of what is called the decided town; thetown as it is conceived by planners at all scales from the ward members to national policies.The second approach is quantitative; it aims to describe the economic and demographicdynamics of small towns across India. À multivariate analysis is developed to classifydistricts based on their profile. This analysis is coupled with a classification of small towns inthree types thanks to a GIS analysis: the ones located on major corridor of development, theones located in a metropolitan area and the last ones in unpolarized areas. The three casestudies fall into this classification and illustrate the diversity of dynamics in which areembedded the small towns. These dynamics affect the space of representation of theinhabitants which is named the perceived town. Àt the crossroads of the perceived town, thedecided town and the material town a living town is emerging which could structure moreefficient policies
Mainet-Valleix, Hélène. "Les Indiens dans la ville post-apartheid, l'exemple de Durban." Paris 10, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA100158.
Full textLeclerc, Eric. "Mobilité, spatialité, et mondialité. Les informaticiens indiens dans la ville globale." Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux III, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00669182.
Full textDelgado, Agurto Mercedes. "Investigaciones arqueológicas en Villa El Salvador : secuencia cerámica en contextos funerarios." Bachelor's thesis, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2007. http://tesis.pucp.edu.pe/repositorio/handle/123456789/621.
Full textSalaberry, Nicolás Ramirez 1981. "Temática indígena nas obras de Heitor Villa-Lobos : Mandú-Çarará /." São Paulo, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/151593.
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Banca: Nahim Marun Filho
Resumo: Esta dissertação pretende estudar múltiplos aspectos, presentes no Poema sinfônico Mandú-Çarará de Heitor Villa-Lobos, que possam estar relacionados com determinadas características identificadas na música indígena brasileira tratada por autores significativos, bem como, refletidos nos estudos mais recentes sobre o "elemento indígena" em Villa-Lobos. O Poema sinfônico Mandú-Çarará, que integra o conjunto de obras do compositor com esta temática indígena, foi elaborado a partir de relatos nativos recolhidos por João Barbosa Rodrigues (1890). Na busca por compreender as diferentes narrativas dos textos envolvidos, analisaremos a estrutura morfológica de cada uma delas. Destacaremos também aspectos musicais da obra que possam remeter às manifestações musicais indígenas. Finalmente, será apresentada uma possível relação entre o texto cantado e a música da obra.
Abstract: This essay intends to study the multiple aspects from Heitor Villa-Lobos's Mandú-Çarará Symphonic Poem, which may be related to certain characteristics identified in Brazilian indigenous music studied by significant authors, as well as reflected in the most recent studies about the "indigenous element" in Villa-Lobos. The Mandú-Çarará symphonic poem, which integrates the composer's set of works with the indigenous theme, was elaborated from native accounts collected by João Barbosa Rodrigues (1890). In the search to understand the different narratives from the texts involved in the work, we will analyze the morphological structure of each of them. We will also highlight musical aspects of the work that may refer to indigenous musical manifestations. Finally, a possible relation between the sung text and the work's music will be presented.
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Xavier, Maico Oliveira. "Cabôcullos são os brancos:dinâmicas das relações sócio-culturais dos índios do Termo da Vila Viçosa Real – Século XIX." www.teses.ufc.br, 2010. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/3059.
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Este trabalho analisa as dinâmicas das relações sócio-culturais dos indígenas do Termo da Vila Viçosa Real no período oitocentista. O principal objetivo foi, portanto, investigar a visibilidade e atuação dos índios no cenário políticosocial do século XIX, diante das estratégias de dominação adotadas pelos administradores do Ceará, autoridades locais e não índios no sentido de, dentre outras coisas, não reconhecer as identidades indígenas tendo como propósito a expropriação de áreas territoriais pertencentes àqueles. A luta dos nativos para manter a posse das terras outrora doadas aos mesmos pela Coroa portuguesa foi constante no referido contexto. Muito embora tenham sido considerados sujeitos confundidos na massa geral da população civilizada, principalmente do meado do século XIX em diante, e acaboclados no discurso de políticos e intelectual, no Termo da Vila Viçosa os índios estiveram no âmago dos acontecimentos, lutando por seus direitos e perpetuando diversas práticas culturais herdadas dos ancestrais.
Ce travail analyse les dynamiques des rapports socio-culturels des indigènes du Terme de la Ville Viçosa Real pendant le XIXème siècle. L’objectif principal a été d’investiguer la visibilité et l’action des indigènes dans le cadre politicosocial du XIXème , face aux stratégies de domination adoptées par les administrateurs de la province du Ceará, des autorités locales et la population non indigènes dans le sens, entre autres, de ne pas reconnaître les identités indigènes ayant pour but l’expropriation des domaines de ceux-ci. La lutte des natifs pour garder leurs domaines autrefois leur donnés par la Courone Portugaise a été constante dans ce contexte. Les indigènes, même s’ils aient été considérés comme des sujets confondus dans la population civilisée, principalement depuis la moitié du XIXème siècle, et obscurci dans le discour des politiciens et des intelectuels, au Terme de la Ville Viçosa Real, les indigènes ont été au sein des évènements, luttant pour leurs droits et perpétuant plusieurs pratiques culturelles héritées de leurs ancêtres.
Carr, Harriet Christian. "Sweet Briar, 1800-1900: Palladian Plantation House, Italianate Villa, Aesthetic Retreat." VCU Scholars Compass, 2010. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/91.
Full textMoreira, Gabriel Ferrão. "O elemento indígena na obra de Villa-Lobos: observações músico-analíticas e considerações históricas." Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, 2011. http://tede.udesc.br/handle/handle/1587.
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This research is mainly aimed to discuss, through music analysis and bibliographical studies the ways in which Heitor Villa-Lobos developed his compositional structures using indigenous elements and built a facet of his style very characteristic, pointing to the Brazilianness through the exotic and wild. Assuming that there is a peculiar way of Villa-Lobos to represent the indigenous, that constitutes a specific language of the composer, this work seeks to reveal musical and hermeneutics aspects of this language. With a comprehensive reading of the events that preceded and followed the cutting time of this research - the 20´s - the musical analysis will relate to information obtained by the analysis of historical and cultural context of the season in Brazil and Europe to synthesize such data in the construction of an interpretation about this musical style of the composer, who accompanied him to the end of his career in the late 50's
Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo central discutir através de observações analíticas e investigações bibliográficas as maneiras pelas quais Heitor Villa-Lobos desenvolveu suas estruturas composicionais utilizando elementos indígenas e construiu uma faceta de seu estilo muito característica, que aponta para a brasilidade através do exótico e selvagem. Partindo do pressuposto de que exista uma maneira peculiar e própria de Villa-Lobos representar o índio que constitua uma linguagem específica do compositor, esse trabalho procura desvelar aspectos musicais e hermenêuticos dessa linguagem. Com uma leitura compreensiva dos eventos que antecederam e que sucederam o corte temporal dessa pesquisa década de 20 - a análise musical se relacionará com as informações obtidas pela análise do contexto histórico-cultural da época no Brasil e Europa as interpretando, para sintetizar tais dados na construção de uma proposta de pensamento sobre o desenvolvimento desse estilo musical do compositor, que o acompanhou até o fim de sua carreira no final da década de 50
Querci, Joël. "Du réseau aux systèmes de villes : un siècle d'urbanisation indienne." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016AIXM3064.
Full textIf India is a predominantly rural country, its urban population is larger than the total population of the United States. Thus, at the end of the 20th century, the Indian urban phenomenon is already well developed, especially as it has a plurimillenary history. The presence of two disturbances have changed the urban logic in the 20th century and led us to question the resilience of the Indian urban system.To present the main mechanisms, we traced the evolution of the Indian urban system across the 20th century. To do this, we used a geographical approach by the population and a more historical one in complement. We emphasized the evolution of the urban hierarchy and that of the cities growth rates.After showing the existence of balancing mechanisms of the urban framework in the 20th century, we focused on the organizational and structural stability of the urban system. This allowed us to highlight the existence of dynamic classes in the urban hierarchy. Their evolution highlights the dynamism of the urban system in the second half of the last century and shows us the stages of its resilience
Éloy, Ludivine. "Entre ville et forêt : le futur de l'agriculture amérindienne en question : transformations agraires en périphérie de São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Nord-ouest amazonien, Brésil." Paris 3, 2005. https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00124085.
Full textThis thesis is a study of indigenous agriculture transformations around a small amazonian city. More than the demographic density, the agrarian transformations depend on the migration trajectories of the families up to the city, through various property rights in natural ressources and possibilities of collecting incomes mediated by large kinship networks. The farmers select imported agricultural techniques and transform their traditional practices. If one observes the existence of a specialization towards the market, family strategies of diversification are more current. The multilocal territorialities make it possible to compensate for the increasing scarcity of the natural resources, and to satisfy new aspirations. Swidden cultivation plays a central part in these territorial transformations, because, from its flexibility, it combines in space and time with the other activities. These innovations place again the Indigenous peoples as the central actors of the creation of the modernity in their territories
Suárez, Espinosa Margarita. "Lohmann Villena, Guillermo y Enriqueta Vila Vilar. Familia, linajes y negocios entre Sevilla y las Indias. Los Almonte. Madrid: Fundación Mapfre-Tavera, 2003, 350 pp." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2014. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/122106.
Full textWallenius, Sandra. "Vad innebär den tibetanska konsttraditionen Thanka och på vilka sätt varierar den?" Thesis, Karlstad University, Division for Culture and Communication, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-184.
Full textThanka är en tibetansk konsttradition som består av religiösa bilder föreställande en rad gudar och heliga personer ur den buddhistiska tron. Motiven är starkt symbolistiska och strängt traditionsbetingade. Detta arbete beskriver denna företeelse i tre delar där den första är hämtad ur litteratur, jag redogör här för uppkomsten, motiven, tekniken, de religiösa aspekterna och dagens plats. Den andra parten består av intervjuer och den tredje delen sammanfattar processen i den tavlan jag själv målat. Slutsatsen blir att denna konst är mycket komplex och tidskrävande, samt att den i sin lugna precision kontrasterar till den västerländska stressen. Kunskapen om thanka går att applicera i flera av skolans ämnen, så som Historia, Religion och Bild, på grund av sin av tradition befästa plats i det tibetanska samhället.
Thanka is a Tibetan art tradition which consists of religious pictures that portrays several gods, goddesses and holy individuals from the Buddhist faith. The motives are strongly symbolist and strictly traditional. This work describes this occurrence in three parts were the first is taken from literature; I give here an account of the origin, the motives, the technique, the religious aspects and its place today. The second part includes interviews and the third part summarizes the working process in my self-made painting. The conclusion is that this art is very complex and time-demanding, and that its calm precision is contrasting to the Western stress. The knowledge about Thanka is possible to apply in several school subjects such as History, Religion and Art, because of its traditional emplacement in the Tibetan society.
Jalia, Aftab. "Innovative masonry shell construction in India's evolving building crafts : a case for tile vaulting." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/271686.
Full textDavrinche, Anne. "Le paysage religieux de Senji. Étude architecturale et iconographique des édifices religieux de la ville de Senji (Tamil Nadu, Inde du Sud) et de sa région." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA074/document.
Full textThe archaeological site of Senji (Gingee) stands in Tamil Nadu, in Southern India. Senji is famous for its fortified walls and castles built upon and between the three main granitic hills of the area, which contributed to change this part of the Tamil country History between the 15e and the 19e centuries. Known for its military aspects, the religious architecture of Senji had yet never been under proper and full study. This dissertation tries to make a detailed study of the Hindu stone temples and places of worship in Senji and its close area. The research focuses on the pan-Indian Hindu temples and analyses the existing relation between them and the local goddesses whom places of worship are not systematically built in long lasting materials. Monuments are situated in the original historical context, mainly in the 16e century during Vijayanagara-Nāyaka domination. The history of Senji’s Nāyaka dynasty is also analysed in order to understand the concepts that rules temples constructions à these times, and the use of religious architecture in this troubled and warfare context, serving the purpose of legitimacy of their power on the 16e century. This research also tries to consider Senji as the object of conservation and preservation, and in terms of Indian cultural and architectural heritage
Rouanet, Hortense. "Quand les grands promoteurs immobiliers fabriquent la ville en Inde : regards croisés sur Bangalore et Chennai." Thesis, Paris Est, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PESC1187/document.
Full textThe thesis focuses on the little-known role of private developers in making of urban spaces in India, in the metropolitan regions of Bangalore and Chennai. The aim of this doctoral research is to observe and explain how developers contribute to the transformation of the spatial organization of cities and their landscape, but also the way of representing and designing as well as develop and govern the development. By probing the physical, symbolic and political, we explore the mechanisms that help explain the more rapid growth of some promoters to a recent moment in urban history. This then needs to take into account the promotion of the activity of specific scrutinizing the ways in which businesses access to the resources they need (land, capital and regulatory power) while taking care of the historicizing. In the context of liberalized India, we note that the growth of real estate development companies due to three aspects combined: 1) a significant demand for new construction that reflects the real estate consumer companies seeking modern premises to house their employees and a growing upper middle class; 2) a socio-relaxed regulatory environment on all important aspects of the property development business, and in particular the arrangements for access to building materials and labor, but also to urban land and capital to pre-finance development operations; 3) finally, the availability of capital from various sources (financial markets, commercial banks, private investors). In the mid 2000s, some developers have managed to develop very rapidly, while managing to maintain a strong autonomy vis-à-vis investors that underpin their development. This relative autonomy of developers, coupled with the firepower provided by the financial markets allowed them to implement a strategy to conquer real estate markets in both their original spaces and by implanting in other cities of south India. They were able to increase their production volume, multiplying projects characterized by their increasing size. Real estate developers surveyed are in strong position to articulate visions on urban development, the governance of cities and urban Indian society. These views reflected those proposed by other leading Indian business leaders and international audit firms: the Indian city should be transformed to meet a world-class city ideal, characterized by efficient urban infrastructure and services. Proponents disqualify public players because of their incompetence and their use of fraudulent compensation practices. Conversely, proponents boast of producing urban forms responding to this world-class city ideal, provide effective services in their housing complexes, demonstrate probity and professional integrity including meeting the requirements of transparency in financial communication and good governance, and more generally to work for the common good through the production of housing and office buildings adapted to the economic modernization of India. These self-legitimation discourse encourage them to dream aloud to replace public authorities in charge of the development of cities, or at least to assume even greater responsibility in their transformation
Iyer, Manisha. "Memoires de Soie en Inde: La Ville de Kanchipuram et son art de Tissage." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/19628.
Full textBercegol, Rémi de. "L’émergence des municipalités : analyse de la réorganisation des pouvoirs issue de la décentralisation sur la gouvernance des petites villes d’Uttar Pradesh." Thesis, Paris Est, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PEST1040/document.
Full textThis Ph.D research aims to analyse the new political and technical arrangements in small towns governance, especially regarding the management of publics basic services, since decentralisation reforms in India. Various research projects have dealt with these subjects in rural areas and large metropolises but little attention has been paid to the same issues in smaller urban settlements. Yet more than half of the urban population in India lives in these towns. There has been a bias within Indian urban studies against small towns, because the idea of “urban” has always designated large urban settlements. This scientific disinterest translates into a more characteristic way of thinking about the urbanization process and resource allocation in India where big cities have been glorified as part of “Shining India”, while at the same time forgetting the rest of urban India. For this thesis, a sample survey has been conducted in a few selected towns comprising around 20,000 inhabitants in eastern Uttar Pradesh. The fieldwork has focused on urban local bodies and interviews has been conducted conducted with political leaders, government officials appointed at different levels (local, regional and state) and other actors such as engineers. Other interviews have been conducted with citizens as users to verify the information collected on effective service delivery and to understand what their relationships are with elected public servants and service providers. The results of the study gives a good view of the institutional building process consequent to decentralisation reform and the municipality emergence in small towns
Michon, Caroline. "Faire corps des affrontements : le Mouvement Indien des Femmes dans la ville de New Delhi, un réseau militant polymorphe." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019EHES0160.
Full textThis political anthropology study of the Indian Women's Movement in New Delhi explores the tangible realities of the NGO phenomenon and the resistance against it. Based on participating observations and interviews with its activists, I propose to analyze the structure of the MIFD and update the collective representations that give it the status of a social and political community. Starting from the concept of "balanced antagonism", I develop a critical reading of the political dissensions that drive it. The latter seem to be a significant source of identity plurality while emphasizing the maintenance of the political character of the Movement. By mobilizing the concept of gender globalization and the subordinate (??subaltern??) approach, this thesis demonstrates that the MIFD is a community where social relationships are replayed and challenged in the light of equality paradigms. In this militant network of women, the unique problems of India are mixed with international and transnational injunctions. Together, they form a space where women's causes are a source of conflict, domination and contestation by subordinate women, who are often deprived of their right to speak and represent. The MIFD is thus in the grip of a double phenomenon, between social and structural homogenization and an attempt to include women's plural identities. In this perspective, my thesis contributes to the development of knowledge on mobilizations by southern women and on gender in urban political anthropology
Terral, Roméo. "La rénovation urbaine de Pointe-à-Pitre du départ de Félix Eboué (1938) à la fermeture de l'usine Darboussier (1981)." Thesis, Antilles-Guyane, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AGUY0615/document.
Full textUrban renewal of Pointe-à-Pitre (1961-1981) was one of the 1argcstever conducted in France during the years (1961- . 1981) and the fust programmed overseas territories. 1'0 respond to the housing crisis and renovate parts of unhealthy ceUsthat had spread in an uncontroUed manner on wetlands located around the city it was intended to. Urban renewal was not simply a development operations because it served as a frontier laboratory and the actors of the urban composition overseas by sctting up public bodies to which the State gave a functional competence develop the territory. On this occasion were introduced in Guadeloupe, a new architecture and new urbanism reflection of modernity
Falk, Renström Johannes. "DEN IDEALA COWBOYEN : En komparativ studie av maskuliniteten inom den amerikanska audiovisuella westerngenren på 1950-talet samt 2010-talet." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, JMK, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-165577.
Full textWiggins, Leticia Rose. "Planting the "Uprooted Ones:" La Raza in the Midwest, 1970 - 1979." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1468604290.
Full textKlein, Achim. "Annoyance indicators for various urban road vehicle pass-by noises and urban road traffic noise combined with tramway noise." Thesis, Vaulx-en-Velin, Ecole nationale des travaux publics, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015ENTP0002/document.
Full textNoise pollution is a major concern for residents of urban areas. To date, the European directive 2002/49/CE requires member states to represent community noise through noise maps. These are produced using the Lden (day-evening-night level) index which is also employed for dose-effect relationships in noise annoyance prediction. However, for the assessment of noise annoyance in urban areas, its relevance is often questioned. Numerous studies have shown that noise annoyance due to community noise is not solely based on the sound pressure level and other acoustical signal characteristics such as temporal and spectral features influence noise annoyance ratings. This thesis aims to improve the assessment of noise annoyance due to various road vehicle noises in cities. It is based on experiments carried out in laboratory conditions and comprises two main parts. The first addresses the enhancement of the physical and perceptual characterization of annoyance due to various urban road vehicle pass-by noises, such as buses, poweredtwo- wheelers, heavy vehicles and light vehicles. A specific focus is put on the characterization of annoyance due to powered-two-wheelers which are among the most annoying road vehicles and studied little in the existing literature. An indicator accounting for annoyance-relevant auditory attributes of urban road vehicle pass-by noises is determined: it comprises loudness, a spectral index and two modulation indices proposed in this work. In urban agglomerations, people are often exposed to road traffic in presence of a variety of other environmental noise sources. The focal point of the second part is on the prediction of total annoyance due to urban road traffic noise combined with tramway noise. In the aim of adequately characterizing total annoyance, first the perceptual phenomena involved in annoyance due to the combination of the sources are studied. Furthermore, the analysis allows for the testing of the proposed noise annoyance indicator for the characterization of urban road traffic noise. To characterize annoyance due to tramway noise, an indicator determined in a recent study is employed. Based on these indicators and the findings regarding perceptual phenomena, models for the prediction of total annoyance due to combined urban road traffic and tramway noise are proposed
Bellégo, Marine. "Enraciner l'empire : les multiples vies du jardin botanique de Calcutta, c. 1860 - c. 1910." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019EHES0156.
Full textEstablished at the end of the eighteenth century by the East India Company, the Calcutta botanic garden became a centre for the acclimatization and classification of plants. The garden was funded by the imperial government and the last three decades of the nineteenth century, when the Raj reached its apex, represented its golden age. Situated in Calcutta, which remained the capital of British India until 1911, the garden contributed both economically and symbolically to the imperial system. This thesis chooses to consider these two aspects together, contrary to garden histories that have generally separated them. While the garden directly served British capitalists by contributing to the agricultural exploitation of colonized lands, it also embodied a historical discourse according to which colonization was a civilizing entreprise. Its semiotically dense space displayed the colonial control over nature. The plants, specimens and publications that it produced played, by word and deed, into the hands of a power that represented itself as global, productive and scientific. Histories of the garden produced within the colonial sphere have therefore insisted on the part it played in the dissemination of new species in India. By doing so, these histories have created a paradigm of botanical introduction that was often taken for granted in the subsequent historical production about the garden. This thesis chooses precisely to study the historical ideology that the garden embodied and sustained, a careful study of which shows that it was full of contradictions, failures and absurdities. Both the garden and the empire that it served were deeply dysfunctional. Based on a great variety of sources, this thesis presents a spatial, material and social history of the garden which sheds new light on the nature of imperialism in India at the end of the nineteenth century
Fernandes, Carla Alexandra Mirra. "Environmental conditions that constrain invertebrate communities and the performance of benthic indices to assess ecological status in mediterranean streams." Master's thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/2071.
Full textCom a publicação da Directiva Quadro da Água em 2000, Portugal assumiu, assim como os restantes Estados Membros da Comunidade Europeia, o compromisso de alcançar o bom estado ecológico das suas massas de água superficiais até 2015. Contudo, para tal é necessário primeiramente averiguar o estado actual destas mesmas massas de água. Tendo por base as metodologias propostas para os rios do Sul de Portugal, procedeu-se ao estudo das comunidades de macroinvertebrados bentónicos existentes em 13 locais nas bacias hidrográficas de Santo André e Melides. Verificou-se que, tal como em outras ribeiras mediterrânicas, os insectos são o grupo predominante, com uma elevada densidade de taxa generalistas. A forma como os macroinvertebrados bentónicos respondem a diferentes variáveis ambientais permitiu averiguar que a concentração de oxigénio dissolvido, a granulometria e a concentração de matéria orgânica são factores estruturantes destas comunidades, sendo fundamentais para a posterior avaliação do estado ecológico das ribeiras. O Índice Português de Invertebrados do Sul (IPtIs) proposto para a avaliação do estado ecológico da maioria dos rios do sul de Portugal foi aplicado aos locais em estudo. Os resultados deste índice sugerem que destes treze locais apenas três se encontram num estado ecológico considerado bom ou excelente. Para uma avaliação ecológica integrada e abrangente aplicaram-se também índices de qualidade do habitat fluvial (IHF) e da galeria ripícola (QBR). Uma vez que a criação do índice IPtIs é relativamente recente, não foi ainda possível uma ampla aplicação do mesmo de modo a verificar a sua eficiência em diferentes tipos de sistemas aquáticos. Como tal, foi estudada a responsividade deste índice às pressões identificadas nas bacias em estudo. Chegou-se à conclusão que, apesar de este índice ter uma boa responsividade em ambientes lóticos, o mesmo não se verifica quando aplicado em ambientes lênticos ou com zonas de interface com águas subterrâneas, subestimando nestes a qualidade ecológica.
ABSTRACT: With the publication of the Water Framework Directive in 2000, Portugal and all other Member States of the European Community, assumed the commitment to achieve a good ecological status of all water bodies by the year of 2015. The accomplishment of this major objective requires the assessment of the current status of all water bodies. Benthic macroinvertebrate communities of 13 locations of the Santo André and Melides river basins were assessed based on the methods proposed for the Portuguese Southern rivers. As in other Mediterranean streams, insects were the predominant group with a high density of generalist taxa. Dissolved oxygen concentration, sediment grain-size and organic matter concentration were the major environmental variables structuring these benthic macroinvertebrate communities. The Portuguese multimetric index of the South (IPtIs), proposed for the assessment of the ecological status of southern Portuguese rivers was determined for the studied locations. The obtained results suggest that only three of these thirteen sites are in an ecological status considered good or excellent. Riparian vegetation quality (QBR index) and the habitat diversity (IHF index) were also assessed for a broader and integrated ecological assessment. The recent proposal of the IPtIs index as an assessment method is relatively recent and for that reason a wider use in order to verify its responsiveness and, therefore, improve its accuracy was not possible. The responsiveness of this index to previously identified pressures in the Melides and Santo André river basins was a major objective of this study. Although this index showed a predictable response in lotic environments, it did not show a good performance when applied to lentic environments and groundwater/surface water interfaces, underestimating ecological quality.