THE MYTHS ABOUT COCÓ’S ECOLOGICAL PARK CONSERVATION,
FORTALEZA, CE, BRAZIL
HS Sampaio1, LS Rabelo2, JMP Bey1
1 - UIB
2 - UFC
joana.petrus@uib.es
THE MYTHS ABOUT COCÓ’s ECOLOGICAL PARK
CONSERVATION, Fortaleza, ce, bRAzIL
Helena Stela Sampaio[1]
Joana Maria Petrus Bey[2]
Laudemira Silva Rabelo[3]
ABSTRACT
The article
discusses the relation between urban parks and the population affected by their
implementation, as well as the importance of digital cartography as a support
tool for taking decisions in projects involving society and nature questions.
The confrontation of necessity and what is established brings out controversies
through the real citizens’ expectations in utilizing urban parks. The
determination of an area becoming a nature reserve, taking the local community
away, frequently causes the feeling of human beings not taking part in nature,
leading to conflicts between use and preservation, besides raising the question
of viability of the current conservation model and its beneficiaries. By means
of digital cartography, there is a better visualization of the Cocó Park
area, detailing the places affected by the current development model and the
possibility of reflections about the existence of easing actions to a better
management of the park. In this research are analyzed, through a case study,
controversies and obstacles of the applicability of environmental laws in the
implementation and continuity of the largest urban park in Latin America,
located in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará.
Keywords: Urban parks, conservation¸ digital
cartography.
Theme 11 chosen: Cartography and satellite image to the management of
natural resources and the environment, sooner warning and easing of
natural disasters.
[1] Doctorate in Geography (UIB), Master’s degree in
development and environment – UFC (Brazil), specialization in Public Law (UFC),
undergraduate degree in Law (UFC).
E-mail: helenasampaio1974@yahoo.com.br
[2]
Doctorate in Geography, professor at Universidade de las Islas Baleares,
director of the department of Earth science, Spain.
[3] Master’s degree in development and environment – UFC (Brasil),
specialization in Social Responsibility: multisectorial projects management to
the sustainable development (FIC) e undergraduate degree in Industrial
Chemistry (UFC). Research scholarship from CAPES. E-mail: laudemira@yahoo.com.br