CONTRIBUIÇÃO DA COBERTURA VEGETAL URBANA PARA A QUALIDADE AMBIENTAL E DE VIDA NO CENTRO DA CIDADE DE SÃO PAULO

• Autor(a) principal: Felix, Carolina Scattolini
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Fávero, Oriana Aparecida
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Geografar
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufpr.br/geografar/article/view/46964
• topic: Centro de São Paulo; Cobertura Vegetal; Qualidade Ambiental; Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano; Qualidade de Vida.; Centre of São Paulo, Vegetation Cover, Environmental Quality, Human Development Index, Quality of Life.

Changes in the physical environment caused by the increasing agglomeration leads to environmental impacts growth, especially in large towns and cities in developing and emerging countries, such as Brazil. The environmental and urban life quality becomes unsatisfactory and, to estimate the population welfare, indexes that address contexts related to economic, social and environmental conditions are created. Thus, this study aimed to discuss the indexes criteria to evaluate, especially, the quality of life and verify the contribution of vegetation cover in the environmental quality in the central districts of São Paulo, considering demographics and the Human Development Index. Demographic data, vegetation cover and the HDI were obtained through mappings carried out previously by several authors. The figures concerning the amount of vegetation cover were compared and analyzed according to the number of inhabitants in the 2000 Census. Vegetation Index and the distribution of vegetation cover per capita were related to the HDI for each district, obtained from study conducted in 2002 by the Secretaria do Desenvolvimento, Trabalho e Solidariedade (Prefeitura Municipal de São Paulo). It was found there is a large discrepancy in the expected values for each location when considering demographics, as districts with the highest amount of vegetation not always have the best distribution of this among its inhabitants. Likewise, most of the districts which records considerable HDIs shows a lower distribution of CV/hab. It can be concluded that the indices of assessing quality of life that does not properly consider the nature conservation in urban areas, such as the HDI, does not adequately reflect minimum environmental conditions for a good quality of life. So, it is extremely important that the centre of São Paulo is considered a priority for the local implementation of public policies.