Valores ambientais e desenvolvimento: um estudo de caso do Distrito de São Jorge e do Parque Nacional da Chapada dos Veadeiros

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Domiciano, Carlos Shiley
• Orientador(a): Ribeiro, Francis Lee
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Goiás
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Ambientais (PRPG)
• Departamento: Pró-Reitoria de Pós-graduação (PRPG)
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Chapada dos Veadeiros; Valoração; Desenvolvimento turístico; Custo de viagem; Valores
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Valuation; Touristic development; Travel cost; Values
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CONSERVACAO DA NATUREZA::RECUPERACAO DE AREAS DEGRADADAS
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/3819

The need to save and protect the environmental goods and services against the uncontrolled human consumption and interventions led to the institutionalization and creation of the Conservation Units. And these, in addition to ensuring the conservation of a certain biome's natural patrimony and biodiversity, carry with them environmental, social, economic, cultural values, among others, attributed by people, due to the use and non-use of their environmental goods and services. For the evaluation of the values related to that kind of unit, this work took place in the São Jorge District, City of Alto Paraíso de Goiás, State of Goiás, Brazil, in the Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park (PNCV), with the intention of evaluate the importance of the Conservation Unit in the context of the development of the region, identifying the values that people (residents and visitors) attribute to the Park's set of goods and services and the District surroundings. At first, it became a study case of the elapsed historical context in the region, to analyze the socioeconomic activities developed there since the time of mining, until the tourism arising from the National Park, in order to apprehending the notion of value of the local residents. Then proceeded to a environmental valuing, based in the Travel Cost Method, to measure the values that the visitors attribute to the PNCV's set of goods and services, according to their expenses with the travel. It was found that the Park represents a range of values for the residents of the District and surroundings, since the economic, environmental and sociocultural, constituting in a element of development to the region. To the visitors, the highlighted values refer to the monetary, related to the travel cost, which reveals a willingness to pay for the goods and services that the PNCV has. Were also obtained, but not measured, non-monetary values related to knowledge, social interaction, culture, among others, that a travel like this provides.