This study aims to describe the general importance of landscaping applied to urban environmental quality. This is a bibliographic review, where data were collected by consulting the selected search through the database Scielo and Google scholar, through scientific publications scientific articles. The material was categorized into two approaches: relationship of landscaping and urban forestry for environmental remediation and notes the contribution of landscaping measures. Several studies have explained the importance of the role of landscaping in urban areas, as well as its contribution to environmental improvement. Numerous measures are adopted that provide beyond the environmental, aesthetic and social.

O sistema solo-planta-atmosfera compreende uma série de processos complexos que se inter-relacionam com atributos físicos, químicos e biológicos do solo, da água, da planta e da atmosfera. As trocas entre a superfície terrestre e a atmosfera ocorrem ao longo dos ciclos de, praticamente, todos os elementos biogeoquimicamente ativos, tais como água, carbono, nitrogênio, metano, compostos orgânicos voláteis, entre outros. Esses ciclos são de suma para
o funcionamento do sistema terrestre, definindo padrões de clima, vegetação e solos, razão pela qual o estudo do sistema solo-planta-atmosfera tem sido área de interesse em várias disciplinas: ciências do solo, hidrologia, recursos hídricos, climatologia, ecologia, engenharia florestal, agronomia, entre outras.

Este subcapítulo relaciona a percepção e a comunicação de risco e incerteza de mudanças climáticas. Trata-se de um tema relevante para o Brasil, onde se ampliam a identificação, a avaliação e a adoção de políticas e ações destinadas a mitigar os determinantes do aquecimento global de forma consistente com o desenvolvimento sustentável.

The growing demand for clean energy sources to replace petroleum has substantially expanded the use of biofuels—fuels produced from agricultural products. For Brazil, instead of representing a hindrance to growth because of the need for changes in the country’s energy mix, this represents a great opportunity to generate value and income, since the country has clear comparative advantages in producing these fuels from renewable sources. The main biofuel in the country is ethanol, made from sugarcane. The country’s cane growing sector has been undergoing intense transformations, with the attraction of foreign capital, opening of new distilleries and intensification of mergers and acquisitions. However, doubts have been raised about the socioeconomic effects of the spread of sugarcane growing, such as the effects on the environment, labor market, social conditions and food prices, among others. This work reviews the papers that discuss these impacts. The results suggest that the expansion in recent years helps to improve the capital-labor relationship; the sugarcane growing is not the cause of increased land and food prices; the environmental indicators in sector is better than fossil fuel sector, or other relevant concurrent; the sector has no significant effects (positive or negative) on social conditions in cane growing regions, and that the sector can contribute positively by increasing local tax revenue.