Urban Insertion in the Housing Program Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV): Evaluation of the Coração de Maria Residential in Salvador, Bahia, Brasil

O desenvolvimento do Programa Habitacional Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV) pelo governo federal brasileiro, a partir de 2009, recolocou questões fundamentais ao estudo da Habitação de Interesse Social, em relação aos seus efeitos no território e na vida das famílias atendidas. Embora inovador na previsão de grandes montantes de subsídios para a Habitação de Interesse Social, o programa apresenta problemas relativos à inserção urbana de seus empreendimentos. Com o objetivo de avaliar os impactos gerados, pela inserção urbana dos empreendimentos, na vida dos moradores, escolheu-se como estudo de caso o Residencial Coração de Maria, localizado no município de Salvador, Bahia. A pesquisa envolveu visitas ao residencial, observação do entorno imediato e observação de imagens de satélite. Foram aplicados questionários aos moradores para analisar como eles avaliam o seu novo local de moradia. Verificou-se que, embora exista uma satisfação dos beneficiários pelo ganho da casa própria, esse sentimento se confunde com a insatisfação pela baixa qualidade urbanística, que não possibilita condições de acesso à cidade e a oportunidades de desenvolvimento social e econômico por parte dos moradores. É neste sentido que a avaliação sobre a inserção urbana das moradias sociais aparece como tema relevante para a pesquisa acadêmica.The Housing Program Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV) developed since 2009 by the Brazilian Federal Government relocated fundamental questions in the study of habitation of social interest, in relation to its effects in the territory and in the lives of the contemplated families. Although it is innovative in the amounts of aids prevision for the Habitation of Social Interest, the program presents some problems related to the urban insertion of its enterprises. With the objective of evaluating the impacts generated by the urban insertion of the buildings in the lives of the residents, this research adopts as a case study the Coração de Maria Residential, located in Salvador city, Bahia. It involved visits to the residences, observation of the surrounding area, and examination of satellite images. In order to analyze how the residents evaluate their new location, they answered to questionnaires in which it was possible to verify a satisfaction with the acquisition of the own house confused with a disappointment related to the urban area in which the buildings are located. These mixed feelings arouse because the area does not give proper conditions of accessing the city center or social and economic opportunities. In this context, the evaluation of the urban insertion of social housing becomes an important theme to the academic research

Neotropical freshwater fisheries : A dataset of occurrence and abundance of freshwater fishes in the Neotropics

The Neotropical region hosts 4225 freshwater fish species, ranking first among the world's most diverse regions for freshwater fishes. Our NEOTROPICAL FRESHWATER FISHES data set is the first to produce a large-scale Neotropical freshwater fish inventory, covering the entire Neotropical region from Mexico and the Caribbean in the north to the southern limits in Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, and Uruguay. We compiled 185,787 distribution records, with unique georeferenced coordinates, for the 4225 species, represented by occurrence and abundance data. The number of species for the most numerous orders are as follows: Characiformes (1289), Siluriformes (1384), Cichliformes (354), Cyprinodontiformes (245), and Gymnotiformes (135). The most recorded species was the characid Astyanax fasciatus (4696 records). We registered 116,802 distribution records for native species, compared to 1802 distribution records for nonnative species. The main aim of the NEOTROPICAL FRESHWATER FISHES data set was to make these occurrence and abundance data accessible for international researchers to develop ecological and macroecological studies, from local to regional scales, with focal fish species, families, or orders. We anticipate that the NEOTROPICAL FRESHWATER FISHES data set will be valuable for studies on a wide range of ecological processes, such as trophic cascades, fishery pressure, the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation, and the impacts of species invasion and climate change. There are no copyright restrictions on the data, and please cite this data paper when using the data in publications