Ruralización revisitada para la gestión de recursos hídricos en zonas urbanas
Masato Kobiyama, Karla Campagnolo, Marina Refatti Fagundes
LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas)
Urban Farm DB summary
This literature review traces the institutional and scientific history of hydrology's growing focus on urban areas, where population density and socioeconomic and environmental problems concentrate. It argues urbanization has negative hydrological effects by removing natural vegetation, soil, and rainwater conditions, and revisits the concept of "ruralization"—proposed in 2000 as the reverse of urbanization—through hydrological, philosophical, and applied lenses, detailing measures such as urban rainwater storage, rainwater harvesting, and urban agriculture, while stating that all such practices should be grounded in data obtained from experimental watersheds (bacias-escola).