Avaliação de nascentes para a gestão ambiental integrada: Insuficiências e proposições apontadas por um painel de especialistas.

The academic community has shown a growing concern with the disappearance and mischaracterization of springs across the planet, despite the advocated importance of these hydrosystems. A tacit gap refers to the lack of consensus regarding techniques for environmental assessment of springs, which many times, do not understand all the complexity inherent to them. This paper reports the results of a Panel of Experts (Delphi technique) to define the most relevant parameters for the assessment of springs in Brazil. The elected indicators were classified in the State-PressureResponse model and qualified according to their acceptance in the scientific community. Finally, the list of parameters that emerges from this proposal compiles interdisciplinary, interscalar and diverse indicators, which can collaborate for the governance of Brazilian springs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]