Equidade Verde: Distribuição e Acesso às Áreas Verdes Urbanas

• Autor(a) principal: WANDA MAIRA MUNIZ ALMEIDA
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMS
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufms.br/handle/123456789/6544
• topic: Equidade Verde; floresta urbana; vulnerabilidade socioambiental; Governança Urbana; Space Syntax; justiça ambiental.

The concept of green equity is defined as the principle that seeks to guarantee human rights and reduce socio-spatial inequalities, considering environmental justice criteria and social markers such as gender, class and ethnicity. Green equity aims to ensure access to urban green areas and the benefits they provide, such as adaptation to climate change and ecosystem services. This research addresses the issue of green equity in the context of sustainable urban development and highlights the importance of public policies aimed at ensuring universal access to safe and inclusive public green spaces, as set out by the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Academic research has demonstrated the existence of distortions in access to green spaces, showing that low-income groups and ethnic minorities face greater difficulty in this regard. Studies carried out in several cities around the world, such as Los Angeles, Sheffield, Santiago and Curitiba, show inequalities in the distribution of parks and green areas. This study/dissertation focuses on the Brazilian city of Campo Grande, MS, and selects an urban district to analyze the distribution of urban parks in relation to the socioeconomic conditions of the population. As evaluation criteria were defined the proximity of residences to green areas in accordance with international recommendations and the contribution of the access road network through spatial syntax analysis. The results reveal inequalities in green equity in the Prosa urban district, where parks are concentrated in richer neighborhoods, while neighborhoods with a less privileged socioeconomic profile face limited access. The study highlights the need to intensify research in developing countries, such as Brazil, in order to understand the specific realities of the urbanization process and address the demands of marginalized urban populations. It emphasizes the importance of public policies that promote green equity, ensuring that vulnerable groups have equal opportunities to enjoy a healthy environment. The research contributes to the understanding of green equity in Campo Grande, MS, and highlights the importance of projects and public policies to promote this equity, as well as the need to evaluate other regions of the city as a whole. The results also suggest the possibility of applying the methodology to other cities.