Parque Urbano da Lagoa da Viúva: diagnóstico ambiental para proposição do Plano de Manejo.

Abstract

The Management Plan is a technical document whereby the Ecological-Economic Zoning (EEZ) of a Conservation Unit (CU) is carried out and must be elaborated within five years from the day of CU’s creation (BRASIL, 2000). This document should include the rules governing the use of the area and the management of the natural resources, as well as the guidelines for the implementation of the necessary physical structures for its management, considering for its elaboration, in addition to the CU area, its buffer zone, its ecological corridors and the measures that are capable of promoting the integration of the area into the economic and social life of neighboring communities (BRASIL, 2000). The Urban Park of the Widow’s Pond (UPWP) is a CU that belongs to the category of the Urban Green Areas of the municipality of Fortaleza – CE and whose main objective is the conservation of the vegetation of the permanent preservation area of the water resource and its surroundings, making conservation compatible with the provision of equipment and urban leisure spaces (FORTALEZA, 2015). The creation and regulation of the UPWP occurred by Municipal Decree No. 13,687, of November, the 9th, 2015. The main objective of this work is the proposal of a management plan to be implemented in the Urban Park of the Widow’s Pond. In the planning phase, the F.O.F.A. analysis and management tool was used. For the diagnostic and preparation stages of the management plan propositions, technical visits, interviews, environmental analyzes and bibliographic surveys were carried out in the study region. As a result, is presented the Management Plan of the Urban Park of the Widow’s Pond, composed by specific targets, programs and actions for each Biodiversity Target and the Masterplan of the region, which consists on the idealized model of the site, presented before the implantation of the Management Plan of the Urban Park of the Widow’s Pond.