Arborização em áreas públicas : uma avaliação do Bairro João Francisco, Cidade de Goiás/GO - 2010

Abstract

Urban afforestation, including street or road afforestation, is an important component in urban landscape, as it directly influences the population's quality of life, offering benefits such as: shade; absorption of solar rays; reduction of air pollution, sound and visual; contributes to improving thermal sensation, among others. The gift work aimed to understand the road afforestation of the João Francisco neighborhood, City of Goiás- GO, quantitatively and qualitatively, as well as the population's opinion on some aspects related to this process. The methodology was based on the following steps: a) bibliographical survey and review, to raise the main concepts, classifications, technical recommendations, legislation, among others; b) quantitative survey and identification of species, to find out how the afforestation of the João Francisco neighborhood was composed; w) quantitative assessment, by sampling, of the trees in the neighborhood in question, from which evaluated the physical and phytosanitary conditions of tree individuals, as well as the location of these in relation to the built elements; d) application of a questionnaire to the population of the neighborhood to investigate the assessment it makes regarding the neighborhood's afforestation. Before the study carried out, the main results indicate that the afforestation of the João Francisco neighborhood is carried out inappropriately, that is, without a study and planning of the species adequate; Another aspect observed is that, in most cases, tree planting is carried out by the population itself, species of inappropriate size are planted for the space available, which conflict with urban equipment and built elements, resulting in drastic pruning that leads to the mutilation of tree individuals.