Perception of the quality of the urban afforestation of the city of Pombal, Paraíba, Brazil
Journal Title: Revista Verde de Agroecologia e Desenvolvimento Sustentável - Year 2018, Vol 13, Issue 3
Abstract
The forestation of cities presents countless advantages among the ones which improvement of the microclimate and well to be population. However, the planning lack and knowledge of the responsible public power for that process can provoke effects contrary to those wanted. With that, the objective of this work consisted of evaluating the perception of the local population as the qualification of the forestation in the city of Pombal, Paraíba, in the intention of like this to collect necessary information to the future and correct arboreal planning of this urban center. For that, they were applied semi-structured questionnaires containing 11 objective questions, where four questions were to characterize the interviewees' profile in relation to the sex, age, education level and main activity, and the seven remaining questions included the subjects regarding the forestation of the municipal district, reaching this way a public of 200 people. The city of Pombal-PB is reasonably wooded and they still present problems with electric and phone nets due to lack of correct planning of the responsible public organs. The population notices the benefits of the forestation affirming that the arboreal ones existent they especially favor the shadow and temperature reduction.
Authors and Affiliations
Valéria Fernandes de Oliveira Sousa, Gisele Lopes dos Santos, Marília Hortência Batista Silva Rodrigues, Roberto Ferreira Barroso, Jonathan Bernardo Barboza, Arthur Vinicius Felinto Fernandes
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