Áreas de lazer urbanas: um estudo de valoração econômica ambiental realizado no município de Londrina

Abstract

The environmental goods since the beginning of modern life provide supplies and raw materials to the man, however it has been few years in the history of mankind that the environmental goods began representing a monetary value, and even so in the beginning this value was in relation just the capacity to provide worldly goods to the human being. Nowadays the economic value of an environmental good covers the entire benefits gamma that it provides, not only to the human being, but as well to the vicinity ecosystem. However there is still a lot to progress in the valuing of our environmental assets, thus the economical environmental valuation comes as a necessity, providing methods to represent the environmental good, economically considering the non-economical benefits in the environmental assets as well. So it was determined the 3 knowledge areas that cover this theme, being them the existence of leisure areas in urban centers and its impact in the social welfare, a brief history of Igapó lake and in the end the environmental economical valuation techniques. So the magnitude of this value can be determined from several evaluation techniques, and within then there are two that are a little explored by the scientific community, being them the method of travel costs (MCV) and the method of hedonic price (MPH). This way this work purposed to apply these evaluation techniques in one of the most significant environmental good of the city of Londrina, the Igapó 1 Lake. Therefore it has as main objective valuate economically the Igapó Lake 1, located in the city of Londrina, in accordance with its users via techniques of environmental valuation that utilize the disposal to indirect pay. For being a place of great beauty and fit for physical activities and leisure Igapó 1 lake attracts a big number of people in addition to positively impact real estate market around it. So the research was divided in accordance with the used techniques. As to the MCV the data sampling tools were interviews and online surveys and the people who answered them were the users of the environmental good. Regarding the MPH the interview was also done, but the interviewed were the estate brokers that provided the valuation percent value of the real estates with view of the lake. In the end of the samplings equations referring to each used method were done and it was generated two values to the Igapó 1 Lake, R$170.192.379,85 for MCV and R$42.805.971,94 for MPH. It is expected therefore that the present research helps the decision makers to establish the actions taken regarding the environmental asset taking in consideration the monetary value that it represents to the population, improving each time more of the quality of the environmental goods provided to the society.