Aplicação de metodologia multicritério de apoio à decisão para priorização de ações de intervenção ao Parque Estadual do Cocó

Abstract

The Parque Estadual do Cocó (Cocó State Park) is a green area of high environmental relevance, consisting of areas of mangroves, restingas and dune fields, forming a fundamental space for the preservation of the species and growth of Fortaleza population’s quality of life. As newly regulated as an Integrated Protection Conservation Unit, its management requires a systemic and integrated perspective, considering the environmental, social, political and cultural sides of difficult insertion and comparation, combined with the economical and technical aspects, easily quantified. Therefore, the objective of this work is to apply a multi-criteria methodology, aiming to order intervention actions to the Cocó Park, allowing an efficient management of its multiple uses, taking into account its preservation, restoration, defense and maintenance, as well as contributions of a managerial nature. The method chosen was the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), which works with hierarchical problems and allows a great number of alternatives and criteria to be correlated from the perceptions of specialists who maintain a direct contact with the reality of the researched topic. Despite the sensitivity of the method to the variations of value judgments made by the decision makers, the practicality of the research was reached, given that the proposed methodology is based on criteria of easy reproducibility and that the actions considered as priorities are related to the main objectives of the National System of Nature Conservation Units.