Permacultura e desenvolvimento urbano:diretrizes e ações para a sustentabilidade socioambiental em loteamentos de interesse social.

Abstract

As a result of the industrialization process, the environment has been degraded both because of the great use of natural resources and energy, growth of the cities, and the difficulty in maintaining a balance between use and planet capacity. However, cities should create conditions to ensure urban and environmental quality standards capable of universalizing, and preventively act to avoid continuation in the current degradation trend. Therefore, it is important to incorporate the principles of social and environmental sustainability for producing human settlements, according to environmental planning. For this purpose, we can alternatively use Permaculture as an environmental planning tool, because it seeks to enable human begins to meet their needs with minimal environmental impact. Based on this statement, this work aims to motivate the discussion on this new paradigmatic base for production of human settlements, designing low-income subdivisions as built ecosystems. Adopting an inductive methodology, based on qualitative method, socioenvironmental guidelines are proposed and corresponding actions are suggested for giving directions to the stages of planning and design of subdivisions. Subsequently, to assist in verifying their employment on low-income housing settlements is prepared a checklist of proposed guidelines. Finally, a relationship matrix to verify the association between the main Permaculture principles of design and proposed guidelines, observing a high degree of interaction between them is created. As a conclusion of this work, we believe that it is possible to employ Permaculture as a tool for environmental planning in human settlements seeking socioenvironmental sustainability, because it incorporates ecological principles for providing a reduction in negative impacts generated by such buildings, besides allowing a better quality of life for its residents. Altogether, we consider that this work contributes to the field of urban planning, encouraging the debate on alternative ways of promoting urban development, by the adopting more environmentally appropriate and socially responsible solutions.