NATURAL RESOURCES AND THEIR USES: THE CASE OF THE PARQUE DA CIDADE, TERESINA, PIAUÍ, NORTHEAST REGION OF BRAZIL
Keywords:
Parque da Cidade, natural resources, forms of use.Abstract
The environmental damages caused by the technological advance are noticeable. It is a fact that any extraction of nature resources produces damage, but is possible to minimize them. With the purpose of make a balance between exploration and conservation, were created laws which are aimed at the creation of protected areas, which are called in Brazil of Conservation of Nature and are also a step towards the conservation of global biodiversity. This paper has the objective of to make a diagnosis of the potential use of natural resources in the Parque da Cidade, in Teresina municipality, Piauí State, northeast Brazil. The specific objectives are: see the big pictures identify the physical and infrastructure, to know how it is used for the environment as in this present research, sustainable alternatives to the use of resources of that park. This is regarded by law 9.985/2000 as Integral project Protection Unit, with vast natural beauty and with an infrastructure built to serve visitors. To achieve the results, fifteen (15) visitors chosen at random, and three (3) employees in the Park were interviewed. The results showed that there is significant dissatisfaction of visitors with current infrastructure, due to problems of financial nature, which result in lack of maintenance of instruments; poor quality of children playground; insecurity due to lack of adequate lighting and insufficient staff. In the current pattern of sustainable development suggest for every nations, it becomes impractical to biodiversity conservation, due to insufficient investment and overlap in the economic environment.Downloads
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2012-04-24
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