@MASTERSTHESIS{ 2021:1555091277,
 	title = {A gestão e os impactos do uso público em unidades de conservação  municipais: o caso do Parque Natural Municipal do Espalhado (Ibicoara– Bahia)},
 	year = {2021},
 	url = "http://tede.unifacs.br/tede/handle/tede/877",
 	abstract = "Conservation units (UC's) in the strict protection category, notably those of the Park 
 type, have become the preferred stage for the practice of ecotourism in Brazil, 
 according to data from ICMBIO (2020), which, in 2019 alone, accounted for 15 million 
 visitors. For this reason, this type of tourism must unite the conservation of natural 
 resources and the enhancement of indigenous cultures and needs to be planned to 
 minimize their possible impacts, which constitutes a major challenge for the structurally 
 less prepared municipal authorities of the financial and technical point of view, to 
 undertake this task. This study aimed to evaluate the levels of implementation and 
 management effectiveness of the Espalhado Municipal Natural Park, in the 
 municipality of Ibicoara, Chapada Diamantina region (BA), with regard to its ability to 
 control the impacts of public use resulting from tourist activity. For this, the Rapid 
 Assessment and Prioritization of Protected Areas Management (RAPPAM) methods 
 developed by WWF were used to assess the effectiveness of management and the 
 level of implementation of the Unit, the Visitor Impact Management (VIM), to monitor 
 and indicate mitigation measures focused on the impacts caused by visitation, in 
 addition to conducting a survey with tourists, through the application of questionnaires 
 on the infrastructure and perception of environmental impacts. The results found 
 showed that, despite the difficulties faced, the unit presents five of the six parameters 
 used to assess its level of implementation, not only counting on the existence of a 
 management plan. Regarding the effectiveness of management, of the sixteen 
 parameters evaluated by RAPPAM, the UC obtained a high percentage in only five of 
 them, a result very influenced by the lack of formal planning instruments. Regarding 
 the verification of the environmental impacts caused by the visitation, The variation in 
 the width of the trail, the existence of unofficial trails, trees used as support for the 
 transposition of obstacles, exposed roots, breakage and cutting of branches and 
 vandalism and social impacts resulting from the encounter of groups of visitors were 
 considered. For these impacts, corrective measures were established to help remedy 
 them. Furthermore, it was also noticed that these impacts are not perceived by visitors 
 and, therefore, do not constitute factors that may, at the present time, harm the 
 experience of tourists",
 	publisher = {Universidade Salvador},
 	scholl = {Desenvolvimento Regional e Urbano},
 	note = {Desenvolvimento Regional e Urbano}
}