Percepção e Qualidade Ambiental no Ambiente Universitário: estudo de caso no Campus 2 – Presidente Prudente/SP

Abstract

The disorganized production of urban space generates negative consequences on the well-being and quality of life of the inhabitants, also promoting environmental damage that may be irreversible. The paper aims to analyze the envinronmental perception of a university campus through the application of mental maps, as well as to analyze the urban environmental quality of a university campus throught the survey of environmental indicators relevant to the object of study. It ir na applied research, with field work to obtain data on the physical aspects of the Campus infraestructure and unsystematic observations. For the analysis of the urban environmental quality of the Campus, images form the Landsat 8, Planet and Alos satélites were used to elaborate and build thematic maps, as well as fiedl surveys, composing the graphic representation of each indicator. When applying the perception analysis and applying the questionnaires, the interviewees were divided into three classes: student, teacher and employee. They were asked about meaning of the Campus, distinctive elements of the palce, indications of the most common route taken by the interviewees and justifications for the indications of the distinctive elements. Positive definitions prevailed in the classifications about the meaning of the Campus, being: broad and afforestation/trees, mentioned by 25% of the interviewees. The was divergence between the distinctive elements and the frequency of their representation through schemactic maps. Representations on maps were classified as: symbolic, sem-structures and structured. Among the students, the representations were made equally in three modes, amogs the employees, the semi-structures representation predominates and the professor represented the physical structure of the campus only in a structures and semi-structured way. The results obtained indicate that mental maps were importante and effective instruments to identify the construction of spatial knowledge and readability by students, teachers and serves on the campus. It is concluded that the understanding of the space and environmental conditions by users and the study also showed that the áreas with the greatest environmental atribute are the áreas with density of arboreal vegetation associated with infraestructure for access to services, directions the interventions focus to local planning.