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Table 4 Proposals for mitigating actions in relevant areas for the project
Mitigating actions
Agriculture
• Pre-germinated system (which consumes less water)
• Superficial densification (avoids water loss through infiltration)
• Frame cultivation system (efficient irrigation)
• Proper use of fertilizers and soil correctives
• Less use of pesticides and correctly management of their packs
• Environmental license
• Integrated production
Aquaculture
• Decantation ponds (these ponds reduce up to 60% of the
pollutants through sedimentation of solids and nutrients
suspended in water)
• Water recycling
• Use of the wetlands practice
Industry
• Treatment of the industrial effluents
• Adequacy to current legislation
• Zoning guidelines
• Environmental education
• Water reuse
• Use of alternative water sources
Sanitation
• Sewage collection and treatment systems in every municipality of
the basin
• Monitoring of the treatment systems
• Environmental education programs
Solid waste management • Landfills
• Recycling and selective collection networks
• State policy of solid waste management
• Environmental education programs
resources, establishing an organizational structure to support structural management,
and prospection of financial funding sources.
6 Conclusions
The main goal of this study is to understand how HEIs can promote advances
and acceleration of sustainable development and SDGs in surrounding communities through the case of a Brazilian Community University, Unisul. As a result of
this study, we conclude that Unisul, using the Water Resources Plan of the Itapocu
River Basin in a partnership with the State of Santa Catarina and the community,
has obtained a satisfactory result, creating participative administration in the Itapocu
basin, empowering and educating the local community. It is worth highlighting that
the project has allowed a deeper environmental awareness of the community, developing environmental education and preservation activities that have shown the population how important ecosystemic services are to the local economy. In this sense,
W. S. de Amorim et al.
Table 4 Proposals for mitigating actions in relevant areas for the project
Mitigating actions
Agriculture
• Pre-germinated system (which consumes less water)
• Superficial densification (avoids water loss through infiltration)
• Frame cultivation system (efficient irrigation)
• Proper use of fertilizers and soil correctives
• Less use of pesticides and correctly management of their packs
• Environmental license
• Integrated production
Aquaculture
• Decantation ponds (these ponds reduce up to 60% of the
pollutants through sedimentation of solids and nutrients
suspended in water)
• Water recycling
• Use of the wetlands practice
Industry
• Treatment of the industrial effluents
• Adequacy to current legislation
• Zoning guidelines
• Environmental education
• Water reuse
• Use of alternative water sources
Sanitation
• Sewage collection and treatment systems in every municipality of
the basin
• Monitoring of the treatment systems
• Environmental education programs
Solid waste management • Landfills
• Recycling and selective collection networks
• State policy of solid waste management
• Environmental education programs
resources, establishing an organizational structure to support structural management,
and prospection of financial funding sources.
6 Conclusions
The main goal of this study is to understand how HEIs can promote advances
and acceleration of sustainable development and SDGs in surrounding communities through the case of a Brazilian Community University, Unisul. As a result of
this study, we conclude that Unisul, using the Water Resources Plan of the Itapocu
River Basin in a partnership with the State of Santa Catarina and the community,
has obtained a satisfactory result, creating participative administration in the Itapocu
basin, empowering and educating the local community. It is worth highlighting that
the project has allowed a deeper environmental awareness of the community, developing environmental education and preservation activities that have shown the population how important ecosystemic services are to the local economy. In this sense,