BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESEARCH ON THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF URBAN GREEN AREAS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE POPULATION'S QUALITY OF LIFE

Abstract

Urban afforestation has not accompanied, in extent, urbanization in places where population growth is the factor for the expansion of local territories.  The objective of this study was to promote a quantiqualitative analysis about the benefits that urban green areas provide to the populations where they occur. For this accomplishment, a Systematic Literature Review was employed, with an observational nature. The secondary data for the composition were obtained from specialized electronic links such as the Portal of the Coordination for Research and Teaching of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES). The data obtained from the 23 selected literatures identified that, in most of them (n = 5.0; 65.2%), the researches associate "green areas with quality of life, or even "green areas with health and quality of life (n = 9.0; 39.13%). There were also citations as to the benefits of green areas in urban perimeters such as suitability for leisure, recreation, and conservation of flora and fauna. As disadvantages, the researches cited the replanting of vegetation with inadequate species, whose surface roots tend to damage the sidewalk and sidewalk, which can cause falls in visually impaired people and become a non-transitable area for the physically impaired.