Arborização urbana e parâmetros ambientais em conjuntos habitacionais de interesse social no município de Presidente Prudente

Abstract

The aim of this work was to evaluate the arboreal species diversity at PAC built housings and to verify its relationship with the environmental parameters and the electric energy consumption per habitant in differnt seasons of the year (summer and winter). Populational growth has drastically changed as natural as built environments, substituting areas of natural vegetation by edifications and low permeability paving. That environment transformation has doing a great influence on environmental parameters in urban centers. Thus, urban vegetation has been recognized as a sustainable alternative for environmental parameters maintenance. However, social interests’ housings have been developed whit no consideration of weather and environmental features. This work hypothesis is that vegetation presence, as long as its species diversity, can change buildings environmental parameters, influencing electrical energy consumption of PAC (Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento) standards housings. Environmental parameters in different day times, the vegetation characteristics on the streets, species diversity and the electric energy consumption average were analyzed through regression equations in three housings on Presidente Prudente city. Results indicated that, regardless species diversity, the vegetation, mostly trees dimensions, highly interferes on neighborhoods environmental parameters, indirectly lowing theses houses electric energy consumption per habitant