Identificação de áreas não-edificantes como subsídio para a gestão ambiental do município de Caucaia-CE

Abstract

The municipality of Caucaia-CE comes passing by an intense process of expansion of its urban area in recent years, with the population growth along with the large enterprises as main guiding agents. Being more and more latent the importance of directing the vectors of urban expansion and rural to the municipality, with a view to preserving the natural characteristics, and therefore avoid environmental degradation, through the determination of areas of exception. Thus, the research aims to define and analyse the areas-the uplifting municipality of Caucaia-CE, as well as highlighting its importance to the environmental and urban management of the municipality. The methodology of the work was based on obtaining data through field survey, followed by the instrumentalization of cartographic bases and and bibliographic sources through Geographic Information System. The demarcation of the areas was based on the legislation in force in the federal, state and municipal levels, being divided in the following groups and subgroups for a better understanding: Protected Areas; Permanent Preservation Areas (dunes, mangroves, top of hills, water bodiesand rivers); Indigenous Area; Highways; Railway and Power transmission lines. The mapping step took place with the use of the software ArcMap 10.1, observations in the field assisted in the interpretation of satellite image and the vaulting of the areas investigated, through the software it was possible to calculate them individually and in their totality, generating a quantitative non-uplifting areas to the city, resulting in a total of 207.53 km². The appropriation of the concept of non-uplifting area provided a vision associated with the social and environmental aspects, outlining a potential strategy to aggregate a number of legal instruments with the purpose of integrated management of the local municipality.