The purpose of this paper is to determine the Recreational Carrying Capacity of three
estuarine beaches (Colares, Marudá and Murubira) on the Amazon coast of Brazil, based on …

Bragança's socioeconomic situation is highly dependent on estuarine and marine biological
resources that are influenced by tidal cycles and climatology. Field measurements …

ABSTRACT Sousa, RC, Pereira, LCC, Costa, RM and Jiménez, JA, 2014. Tourism carrying
capacity on estuarine beaches in the Brazilian Amazon region. In: Green, AN and Cooper …

Ecosystems sustain human life and its varied activities through their provision of ecosystem
services. However, a wide variety of human activities are seriously harming ecosystems, as …

Widespread flooding occurred along the Amazon coast during 2009, starting in the early
rainy season, when a La Niña event provoked an abnormal increase in rainfall levels. The …

The sandy beaches of the Brazilian Amazon coast have enormous touristic potential and
attract thousands of visitors each year, principally in July, at the beginning of the summer …

The Brazilian equatorial macrotidal sand beaches present peculiar meteo-oceanographic
characteristics. The aim of this study was to understand the morphodynamic processes of …

Amazon beaches are environments of high energy that present complex climatological and
oceanographical processes. The main aim of this study was to observe the pattern changes …

The coastal zone of the Brazilian state of Maranhão is an area characterized by diverse
human activities and services, in particular in the “Ponta da Madeira” shipping terminal. The …

Amazon coast is a vast and complex estuarine–marine system with highly dynamic coastal
environments driven by an abundance of sediment reworked by fluvial, tidal and wave …