Levantamento de informações socioambientais na comunidade da praia de Macapá - Luís Correia - Piauí - Brasil: contribuições ao gerenciamento costeiro participativo / Socioenvironmental Information gathering in the communitie of Macapá beach

Os ambientes costeiros são considerados espaços estratégicos devido à diversidade de funções econômicas, sociais e ambientais. Nesses espaços se desenvolvem múltiplos usos, por agentes que possuem os mais variados interesses, levando muitas vezes a conflitos de ordem socioambiental. Estratégias de gestão podem ser usadas para enfrentar tais problemas, especialmente através do envolvimento popular. A inserção das comunidades deve ocorrer desde o levantamento de informações até o processo de tomada de decisão. O presente trabalho objetiva coletar informações socioambientais por meio do uso de questionários semi-estruturados, na comunidade de Macapá, município de Luis Correia, estado do Piauí. Os questionários foram aplicados nas residências da comunidade e respondidos por um representante familiar, perfazendo um total de 78 participantes. A partir das informações levantadas foi possível traçar o perfil socioeconômico da comunidade, avaliar a estrutura higiênico-sanitária e identificar potencialidades e limitações de uso. Assim, verificaram-se o baixo nível de escolaridade e renda média das famílias e as deficiências relacionadas ao abastecimento de água, esgotamento sanitário e coleta de resíduos. Além disso, foi possível identificar potencialidades que podem ser exploradas por atividades de ecoturismo, por exemplo, e limitações relacionadas à implantação de estruturas rígidas. As informações apuradas são úteis para o delineamento de políticas de gestão que compatibilizem o desenvolvimento econômico, a melhoria na qualidade de vida da população e a manutenção da qualidade das funções ambientais.Palavras–chave: gestão costeira, políticas públicas, potencialidades e limitações de uso. AbstractCostal environments are considered strategic spaces due to the diversity of economic, social and environmental functions. Agents that have the most varied interests develop several uses in those spaces, many times leading to socioenvironmental conflicts. Management strategies can be used to face such problems, particularly through popular engagement. The inclusion of communities should happen since the information gathering to the process of decision taking. The present issue aims to collect socioenvironmental information with semi-structured questionnaires in the communitie of Macapá, in the city of Luis Corrêa, State of Piauí. The questionnaires were applied in the cities residences, answered by a family’s representative, making up 63 attendees. From the information gathered, it was possible to draw the socioeconomic profile of the community, to evaluate the hygienic and sanitary structure and identify potentialities and limitations of use. Thus, a low level of schooling and average income of families were verified, deficiencies in relation to water supply, sanitary sewage and waste collection. Besides that, it was possible to identify potentialities that can be explored by ecotourism activities, for instance, besides the limitations related the implantation of rigid structures. The collected information are useful for the drawing of management policies that reconcile the economic development, the improvement of the life quality of the population and the quality keeping of the environmental functions.Keywords: coastal management, public policies, potentialities and limitation of use.

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Current noise pollution situation in the territory of the city of Novi Sad and possible health effects

Sestrinska rec ◽

10.5937/sestrec2081012k ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 23 (81) ◽

pp. 12-15

Author(s):

Emina Kričković ◽

Zoran Kričković

Keyword(s):

Health Effects ◽

Life Quality ◽

Noise Pollution ◽

Population Exposure ◽

Residential Areas ◽

Protection Measures ◽

Novi Sad ◽

The City ◽

Quality Of The Population

Noise pollution or environmental noise is certainly one of the factors which determine health population of the city of Novi Sad and based on noise level depends the life quality of the population. In this paper noise pollution state in subject territory will be identified, through year average values of daily (Lday), evening (Levening), nightly (Lnight) and total (Lden) noise indicators on measuring spots, population exposure to noise pollution, health effects as well as protection measures that should be adopted. During 2019, in the territory of the city of Novi Sad average year values of daily, evening and nightly indicators were elevated in all zones ("zones of city roads", "residential areas", "education zone"), apart from evening noise which, in the zone of city roads, was in accordance with national normative.

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Atributos desejáveis para gramados a serem cultivados sob condições brasileiras: uma proposta

Ornamental Horticulture ◽

10.14295/oh.v22i2.841 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 154 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Francisco Humberto Dübbern de Souza ◽

Marcos Rafael Gusmão ◽

Frederico De Pina Matta ◽

Ana Cecília Ribeiro De Castro ◽

Andréa Mittelmann ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Genetic Diversity ◽

Life Quality ◽

Urban Populations ◽

Research Programs ◽

Ground Coverage ◽

Different Characteristics ◽

Environmental Functions

Turfgrass cultivation is a multi-purpose popular practice, associated with life quality of urban populations in consequence of its capability of providing safe, pleasant environments, suitable for recreational and sportive activities. Additionally, it plays relevant environmental functions. For these reasons, turfgrasses constitute an important segment of the agribusiness in many countries. In Brazil, the importance of this type of cultivation has increased in spite of the reduced number of available turfgrass cultivars. Research programs aiming the exploitation of his ample genetic diversity could promote Brazil to the forefront of this type of agriculture in the tropical world. In this work, we discussed and proposed degrees of relevance for different characteristics of grass plants destined for use as permanent ground coverage under a variety of Brazilian situations.

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Environmental Urbanization Assessment Using GIS and Multicriteria Decision Analysis: A Case Study for Denizli (Turkey) Municipal Area

Advances in Civil Engineering ◽

10.1155/2018/6915938 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2018 ◽

pp. 1-7

Author(s):

Erdal Akyol ◽

Mutlu Alkan ◽

Ali Kaya ◽

Suat Tasdelen ◽

Ali Aydin

Keyword(s):

Decision Analysis ◽

Environmental Quality ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Spatial Information ◽

Life Quality ◽

Multicriteria Decision Analysis ◽

Multicriteria Decision ◽

The City

In recent years, life quality of the urban areas is a growing interest of civil engineering. Environmental quality is essential to display the position of sustainable development and asserts the corresponding countermeasures to the protection of environment. Urban environmental quality involves multidisciplinary parameters and difficulties to be analyzed. The problem is not only complex but also involves many uncertainties, and decision-making on these issues is a challenging problem which contains many parameters and alternatives inherently. Multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) is a very prepotent technique to solve that sort of problems, and it guides the users confidence by synthesizing that information. Environmental concerns frequently contain spatial information. Spatial multicriteria decision analysis (SMCDA) that includes Geographic Information System (GIS) is efficient to tackle that type of problems. This study has employed some geographic and urbanization parameters to assess the environmental urbanization quality used by those methods. The study area has been described in five categories: very favorable, favorable, moderate, unfavorable, and very unfavorable. The results are momentous to see the current situation, and they could help to mitigate the related concerns. The study proves that the SMCDA descriptions match the environmental quality perception in the city.

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Quality of Life in Glasgow: An Applied Geographical Analysis

Environment and Planning A Economy and Space ◽

10.1068/a181499 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 18 (11) ◽

pp. 1499-1520 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

M Pacione

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Life Experience ◽

Life Quality ◽

The Elderly ◽

Life Forms ◽

Quality Of Life Indicators ◽

The City ◽

Detailed Work

The structure and distribution of quality of life forms a key area of research in human geography, with particular attention given to conditions at the disadvantaged end of the quality-of-life spectrum. To date, most work has focused on the national, regional, or interurban scale. However, whereas descriptive pattern identification and mapping is of value at the macroscale as a pointer to detailed work, policy-relevant quality-of-life indicators are more likely to be derived at the local scale and to be related to specific life concerns. In the present research, a multiscale multiindicator methodology is used to examine the structure and distribution of life quality in Glasgow. In a series of analyses in which objective and subjective indicators are employed at different geographic scales, the city-wide pattern of life quality is identified and a number of severely disadvantaged subareas isolated. Within one such subarea the quality-of-life experience of a particular social group, the elderly, is examined in detail. Application of the methodology in other cities could facilitate intercity and cross-cultural comparisons of quality-of-life variations within contemporary urban areas. Such investigations can also be of practical utility for decisionmakers seeking to define priorities for social policy.

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Value and Quality in the Dialectics between Human and Urban Capital of the City Networks on the Land District Scale

Land ◽

10.3390/land11010034 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 34

Author(s):

Ludovica Nasca ◽

Salvatore Giuffrida ◽

Maria Rosa Trovato

Keyword(s):

Evaluation Model ◽

Life Quality ◽

Value Theory ◽

Value Judgments ◽

Valuation Model ◽

Levels Of Detail ◽

Complex Process ◽

The City ◽

Different Levels

This contribution proposes an inter-scalar and multi-polar analysis evaluation model of the territory of the Enna district, aimed at providing a robust axiological representation of the salient aspects of the general issue of internal areas, and therefore of the set of criticalities affecting them from the perspective of the human and urban capital they express. In the prospect of investigating the relations between urban and life quality – corresponding to the “city effect” – in the territorial context of each of the 20 municipalities of the Enna district, a hierarchical descriptive-valuation model was created, which coordinates a relevant amount of information units (data) and the corresponding attributes, indicators and indices that have been turned in aggregate value judgments attributed to each administrative land unit, from the perspectives of the criteria referred to as the main forms of the territorial capital. This is a multi-dimensional valuation model based on the Multi-Attribute Value Theory. Each survey and processing is mapped with different levels of detail at the scale of municipalities, census sections and cadastral land units. The outcome of this complex process of analysis and assessment provides multiple comparisons, revealing unexpected and sometimes counter-intuitive aspects in several municipalities, some of which are characterised by innovative prospects and opportunities for redevelopment of their historic centers. Correlations between information units at the different levels of the dendrogram have also indicated interesting trends and attitudes, whose comparisons can address territorial policies on both a local and provincial scale. Furthermore, the focus on the “cities network” is here assumed and proposed as the privileged point of observation of territory and the related aspects of the quality of life.

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Organization of housing and communal services management in Moscow (using the Golyanovo District as an example)

LAPLAGE EM REVISTA ◽

10.24115/s2446-622020206extra-c640p.176-189 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (Extra-C) ◽

pp. 176-189

Author(s):

Ekaterina A. Vetrova ◽

Elena E. Kabanova

Keyword(s):

Well Being ◽

The State ◽

Public Utility ◽

Sharp Contrast ◽

Objective Indicator ◽

Utility Services ◽

Low Efficiency ◽

The City ◽

Quality Of The Population

Since the last decade of the XX century, the sphere of housing maintenance and utilities has been undergoing a period of reform. Its main goal is to transfer the activities of economic entities in this area to market principles, to carry out a comprehensive modernization of its infrastructure, to ensure the economical use of all types of resources, to expand the range and to improve the quality of housing and public utility services. The problem of the study is that in modern conditions the housing maintenance and utilities is among the key life-supporting sectors of administrative-territorial entities and acts as an objective indicator of the level and quality of the population well-being, which contradicts the low efficiency of the housing maintenance and utilities management in certain territories. In some districts of the city of Moscow, it is in sharp contrast to the general advanced innovative level of management and the state of housing maintenance and utilities in the Russian capital.

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INFRASTRUCTURE AND LIFE QUALITY OF THE POPULATION: INTERSYSTEM COMMUNICATION OF REGIONAL

Economy of region ◽

10.17059/2010-2-19 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 197-203

Author(s):

М. G. Nikolayeva ◽

N. V. Mordovchenkov

Keyword(s):

Life Quality ◽

Quality Of The Population

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Analysis of Life Quality in a Tropical Mountain City Using a Multi-Criteria Geospatial Technique: A Case Study of Kandy City, Sri Lanka

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12072918 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (7) ◽

pp. 2918 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

DMSLB Dissanayake ◽

Takehiro Morimoto ◽

Yuji Murayama ◽

Manjula Ranagalage ◽

ENC Perera

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Spatial Distribution ◽

Sri Lanka ◽

Distribution Pattern ◽

Gradient Analysis ◽

Life Quality ◽

Spatial Distribution Pattern ◽

City Center ◽

The City

The blooming of urban expansion has led to the improvement of urban life, but some of the negative externalities have affected the life quality of urban dwellers, both directly and indirectly. As a result of this, research related to the quality of life has gained much attention among multidisciplinary researchers around the world. A number of attempts have been made by previous researchers to identify, assess, quantify, and map quality of life or well-being under various kinds of perspectives. The objectives of this research were to create a life quality index (LQI) and identify the spatial distribution pattern of LQI in Kandy City, Sri Lanka. Multiple factors were decomposed, a hierarchy was constructed by the multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) method, and 13 factors were selected under two main criteria—environmental and socioeconomic. Pairwise comparison matrices were created, and the weight of each factor was determined by the analytic hierarchy process (AHP). Finally, gradient analysis was employed to examine the spatial distribution pattern of LQI from the city center to the periphery. The results show that socioeconomic factors affect the quality of life more strongly than environmental factors, and the most significant factor is transportation. The highest life quality zones (26% of the total area) were distributed around the city center, while the lowest zones represented only 9% of the whole area. As shown in the gradient analysis, more than 50% of the land in the first five kilometers from the city center comes under the highest life quality zone. This research will provide guidance for the residents and respective administrative bodies to make Kandy City a livable city. It the constructed model can be applied to any geographical area by conducting necessary data calibration.

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