Diagnostic of urban tree planting in Guarabiras town, state of Paraíba

Abstract

This study aimed to qualitatively analyze the current situation of urban tree planting in Guarabira Town, State
of Paraíba, Northeast Brazil, as well as serve as a basis for future improvements in the city’s urban forestry.
The research looked at the urban forestry in five different neighborhood of the city, which represents an
expressive part of the studied universe. Among the various methods of environmental impact assessment, in
addition to the observation of maps and satellite images, we opted for the use of the Leopold Matrix, very
common for environmental impact studies of agriculture and which allows interaction between the actions
from the project - in this case, the current condition of municipal urban forestry - on environmental factors.
Among the various problems observed, we can highlight the low diversity of plants and the predominance
of exotic species that result from the lack of planning that result in a disorderly urban forestry, inappropriate
and discontinuous.