Sistema de áreas verdes e percepção da qualidade de vida na cidade de Sousa

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Andrade, Débora Pires Xavier de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraí­ba; BR; Engenharia Cívil e Ambiental; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Urbana e Ambiental; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Qualidade de vida; Sistema de áreas verdes; Meio ambiente; Quality of life; System of green areas; Environment; ENGENHARIAS::ENGENHARIA CIVIL
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/5575

This study evalue the urban green spaces, from the standpoint of its concepts, and its quantitative and qualitative assessment, focusing on the town of Sousa city - PB. These urban elements that many consider to be an importants elements of quality of life (QOL) urban environment, still have a nebulous assessment by its subjectivity. As an object, we sought to examine the system of green areas, their size, their qualitative aspects of society and the perception about the quality of life of the town of Sousa. This is a descriptive study, with assessments documentary, cartographic and iconographic, reviews and interviews with a sample of 378 people, residents in the urban perimeter. The methodological procedures, we analyzed the documents of public green areas and leisure through maps and records in the Municipality of Sousa. The indices were calculated: Green Areas (IAV), Land Cover (ICV) and tree cover (ICA). We used the computer program AutoCAD 2009 and the satellite image of Google Earth for analysis and placement of trees. Data were collected between August-October 2009, then the information is scanned into a computer program (Auto CAD) and we estimated the rates established for comparison with the standards of the Association of Urban Tree (bulging) and SPSS . The results of the questionnaires were evaluated by appropriate statistical procedures. It was found that the city, which has an area of 842km2, population of 63,783 inhabitants and a density of 75.45 inhabitants / km 2; area of 713,179.84 m2 vegetation, ICV (urban) 0.0396, the IAV with a total area of squares, of 11.73m2/hab, and 11.39m2/hab, with the area of vegetation in those squares, the minimum standard rate is 15 m2 / hab. The ICA is 6.56m2/hab, 69% of individuals use the spaces for physical activity, there are differences between the majority of respondents, with the exception of: recreation areas but decreased (52.9%) and not (47.1% ) (p = 0.280), location of trees, as well (54.0%) and bad (46.0%) (p = 0.136); agreement of definitions of QOL did not differ by age (p = 0.945 and p = 0.429 ), by socioeconomic status differs (p = 0.002), the official definition, but when we include financial and salary, not (p = 0.127) main elements: good social relationships, 45.5% (p = 0.089 ), good services and urban infrastructure, 46.8% (p = 0.136), good jobs and the workplace, 49.5% (p = 0.877), healthy environment and nice, 46.8% (p = 0.237). The city of Sousa meets their indices of vegetation and green areas below the minimum suggested by bulging the standards of urban quality of life and environment. As for the agreement of definitions of quality of life there was good evidence that social relationships, good service and good urban infrastructure, good jobs and the workplace environment healthy and pleasant, if present in the same way for society indicating that there is a consensus among people that these aspects represent the quality of urban life.