Gestão de áreas verdes públicas na cidade do Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil

Abstract

Green areas are crucial elements in the urban landscape and heritage components, built or natural. They have such importance not only for the notorious contribution the physical aspect that characterize the morphology of the city, but are, as well, influential elements of socio- economic aspects, which makes possible to understand the appropriation levels by the society on these areas. In this scenario the agenda of the management of green areas should be one of the conditions for the characterization in its transformation process they went through. This should permeate both its diagnosis and the proposals to change the current scenario in perspective of welfare, of environmental quality and of path in the pursuit of sustainability.. In this study were analyzed public green areas of the city of Recife from the point of view of management, taking as a premise the benefits they generate from their various functions, whether ecological, landscape, social, psychological, etc. and, above all, from the fundamental role in the balance of urban life. This approach allowed to elucidate the importance of these areas in the context of urban space in the city not only by physical factors, but also the historical and cultural values that constitute the process of the city formation. The relevance of green areas in this context, considering the role they play in the quality of life, is in quantitative point of view, reporting and analyzing their distribution in the territory of the city of Recife, its formats, occurrences and classification, from the qualitative point of view, where their influences were identified, either from an objective or subjective point of view in the urban and environmental quality, and consider the opinion of the community, is where is based the objective of this project. For the development of this study, it was adopted a methodological model that required some steps – literature review, data collection and analysis and systematic interpretation of the data. From the discussion and analysis can be inferred, regarding to the management tools, advances upon insertion of urban green in the Master Plan and the establishment of the Municipal System of Protected Areas, for example, in addition, we can identify various projects and innovative actions as the expansion of arboreal covering and the use of environmental compensation mechanisms to improve the green areas. However, it is possible to realizes that the administrative structure is still fragile from the point of view of technology and an adequate number of specialized technicians, in addition to being notorious the disarticulation and overlapping responsibilities among agencies. It was also possible to perceive an identity of the people involved in the management and among users regarding to the opinions about the scenario of public green areas, especially in the perception of the main problems – lack of security; restricted accessibility and lighting and poor maintenance . There was the identification of the attributes of green areas from conceptual approaches concerning its various functions be they ecological, economic, aesthetic, contemplation or leisure, defined in the pilot area (Region Administrative Policy 3 - RPA3) considering, of course, the whole collection institutional units related to protected beyond the resident and user community auscultation, which supported recommendations called Guidelines for the Management of Public Areas Green Recife, becoming an important tool for the sustainable management of municipal green areas.