ENVIRONMENTAL VALUATION: EXAMPLES OF ITS WATERSHED APPLICABILITY

Abstract

At the current sustainable development speech, it's important to develop a better management of water resources to guarantee and ensure life quality to the actual and next generations. The environmental valuation has shown to be an important instrument of applicability about watershed. The environmental valuation is the process of seeking to estimate the economic value of natural resources through the measurement of equivalence of the other available resources inside the economy. The measurement of thesis that assess the valuation applied to watershed is crucial to allow glimpses about the research scenario of the post-graduation programs in Brazil. Therefore, a bibliometric research that allowed the identification of that thesis has been made in Brazil, at the length of time from 2006 to 2012. The thesis concentration about southeast economy programs was observed. However, the existence of other programs studies shows the possibilities of valuation as a capable instrument of providing mechanisms that can assist the development of a good management of water resources.