Uso e qualidade recreativa no aterro da Praia de Iracema, Fortaleza - CE

Abstract

The urban beaches have a great economic and tourism visibility, in this way, there’s a big demand of use by the population. However, major problems of environmental degradation can occur, reducing the quality of beaches, making it necessary and urgent to implement planning measures, decisions and coastal management. The objective of this work was to evaluate the recreational quality, description, and the zoning of the multiple uses of the embankment from Iracema Beach, to ensure goers comfort and sustainable development to the coastal environment. In the investigation of the object of study, we evaluated the recreational quality by means of geo environmental quality and infrastructure indicators. Through video image analysis was observed carrying capacity and frequency of users in beaches compartments throughout the day. The average recreational quality to the embankment from Iracema Beach has good indicator, but some parameters must be improved. As for load capacity, there was great comfort zone in foreshore of the 97,5m / user, showing considerable bearing capacity of this object of study. The zoning was performed showing different activity profiles during the day and at night.