Árvores urbanas em Juiz de Fora/MG: proteção de espécies imunes de corte no contexto de formação de uma paisagem afetiva

Abstract

The ecological and environmental benefits that trees bring to our cities are recognized, assuming that they are fundamental elements for the well-being of the population. From this point, this dissertation aims to address the case of trees in the city of Juiz de Fora that were declared immune to cutting as a sample of public policies for the preservation of urban vegetation and aiming to reveal what is their contribution to urban life, including symbolic and affective aspects of their relationship with the inhabitants. We used studies dedicated to the concept of affective landscape, the Forest Code (2012) and municipal decrees that grant cutting immunity for certain trees in the locality as a bibliographic basis. Combining this effort with data collection through photographic and satellite images, we were able to verify the conservation status of trees that are immune to cutting, their planting conditions, care and integration with the surroundings, observing the degree of success of public protection policies to the native and exotic species found here. We conclude that the city of Juiz de Fora lacks continuous and consistent projects for the proliferation of public green spaces, as the proportion of green area for inhabitants is low.