O Parque da Água Branca: o manejo sustentável de uma floresta urbana / Água Branca Park: the sustainable management of an urban forest

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

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The present study evaluated the State Park "Dr. Fernando Costa", also called Parque da Água Branca (Água Branca Park) located in the west part of São Paulo City, its characteristics, its social and natural environment particularities, and its tree composition, as part of the Urban Forest of São Paulo. It describes its evolution along the 20th century until the present time. The study has the objective of defining sustainable actions and strategies, in order to get a balance between the park way of using and the conservation of its natural resources. For that, it analyzed the physical, social-economic and biological environments. The investigation of the physical environment was done via analyzes of its structure conditions and analyzes of the exhaustion of one of its water sources. The evaluation of the social-economic environment was done through 152 interviews with users of the park, watching their degree of awareness about the importance and benefits of the green areas in the improvement of the environment and of the life quality, besides the satisfaction degree about what the park offers. The biological environment was studied through the register in a cadastre and a general diagnosis of tree population presents in the place. The data got in the survey shown the occurrence of 99 species of trees, represented by 35 families in a universe of 2.890 units, most of them growing without any planning, since the park was inaugurated. It was done a comparison with park vegetation survey carried out in 1996, when the park was declared of permanent preservation area by CONDEPHAAT. Both studies show the predominance of exotic species in relation to the native species, with more than 70 percent of the total. The low biological diversity was also detected in both studies and practically half of all of the trees in the Park are represented by only five species, which are facts not desirable for keeping the ecological balance of the area. This extended diagnosis generates a historical description of the area, showing what it was in the past and what it is nowadays. It serves as basis to plan what it is desired the area should be in the future. The natural environment of an urban park when analyzed in relation with the way of human being uses the area, offers a view of the interactions between the natural processes and the human being purposes along the time. It helps the understanding of the current needs and it creates subsidies for the presentation of proposals of interventions that, in this case, will be done at the end of the work.

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urban forest environmental management. floresta urbana plano de manejo urban parks Água branca park management plan parque da Água branca parques urbanos manejo ambiental

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