Recognizing Sustainability in a University Campus …
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this situation occurs, the situation must be managed to guarantee the perpetuation
of biodiversity. Peng et al. (2019) declares that the relation between the number of
native and exotic species are negative at smaller sizes, and positive at bigger sizes.
Thus, it is interesting to highlight that, according to Fuller et al. (2007) apud Carrus et al. (2015), biodiversity increases the psychological benefits associated to “the
green experience”.
This way, the importance of the area is strengthened, creating a natural scenery
that allows users to enjoy an ambient with native and exotic species, with an improved
microclimate and green connections among the buildings.
It is possible to conclude that, beyond the social role of the Campus, the coexistence of distinct species demonstrates the importance of collective work among
culture, history and biodiversity.
3 The Use of Campus I as a Study Object
The UPF Campus I’s flora has been monitored since 2012 by studies that analyze the
species and their growth, cataloging them as native or exotic species, highlighting the
ones that are threatened of extinction. This study produces a monitoring report, made
by the own University, and is kept as a data source. These studies are coordinated
inside the University, by investigation projects that involves teachers and students
from different courses. The study and cataloging allows the University to function as
a living laboratory and a unique source of data, because it allows the understanding
of the functioning of a whole living system, like as the existent in the APPs.
These studies form a data source, this way, beyond the monitoring of the species,
it is also sought to understand the relation between users and the environment, by
interviews and surveys.
Further than the studies for data collection, the University also encourages the
creation of projects that seek for alternative and sustainable solutions, for example, the
mobility question. The ideas contest from the Architecture course of the UPF called
“Desafio das 8 Horas (DA8)” (8 h challenge), in 2015. Its proposal was to create
a cycling system, that would connect the original complex of the Engineering and
Architecture Faculty (FEAR) to the new building. Which, if implemented, “would
serve as a pilot plan to a whole cycling system, that would reached all the campus,
focusing the efficient and zero emissive transport, that is possible by the bicycle”
(Melo et al. 2016).
The University also publishes weekly an informative of the existent vegetation
species in the Campus on their social network, with the intention of democratizing
the information for all the community that accesses Facebook, by a spreading project
called “Árvores UPF” (UPF Trees) (Facebook 2019). There are informations around
the popular name, scientific name, photos, flowering, fruiting, ecological importance,
family, origin and uses. The publication of this material is possible by the existence
of the project “Preservação Sustentabilidade da Vegetação Arbórea” (Preservation
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this situation occurs, the situation must be managed to guarantee the perpetuation
of biodiversity. Peng et al. (2019) declares that the relation between the number of
native and exotic species are negative at smaller sizes, and positive at bigger sizes.
Thus, it is interesting to highlight that, according to Fuller et al. (2007) apud Carrus et al. (2015), biodiversity increases the psychological benefits associated to “the
green experience”.
This way, the importance of the area is strengthened, creating a natural scenery
that allows users to enjoy an ambient with native and exotic species, with an improved
microclimate and green connections among the buildings.
It is possible to conclude that, beyond the social role of the Campus, the coexistence of distinct species demonstrates the importance of collective work among
culture, history and biodiversity.
3 The Use of Campus I as a Study Object
The UPF Campus I’s flora has been monitored since 2012 by studies that analyze the
species and their growth, cataloging them as native or exotic species, highlighting the
ones that are threatened of extinction. This study produces a monitoring report, made
by the own University, and is kept as a data source. These studies are coordinated
inside the University, by investigation projects that involves teachers and students
from different courses. The study and cataloging allows the University to function as
a living laboratory and a unique source of data, because it allows the understanding
of the functioning of a whole living system, like as the existent in the APPs.
These studies form a data source, this way, beyond the monitoring of the species,
it is also sought to understand the relation between users and the environment, by
interviews and surveys.
Further than the studies for data collection, the University also encourages the
creation of projects that seek for alternative and sustainable solutions, for example, the
mobility question. The ideas contest from the Architecture course of the UPF called
“Desafio das 8 Horas (DA8)” (8 h challenge), in 2015. Its proposal was to create
a cycling system, that would connect the original complex of the Engineering and
Architecture Faculty (FEAR) to the new building. Which, if implemented, “would
serve as a pilot plan to a whole cycling system, that would reached all the campus,
focusing the efficient and zero emissive transport, that is possible by the bicycle”
(Melo et al. 2016).
The University also publishes weekly an informative of the existent vegetation
species in the Campus on their social network, with the intention of democratizing
the information for all the community that accesses Facebook, by a spreading project
called “Árvores UPF” (UPF Trees) (Facebook 2019). There are informations around
the popular name, scientific name, photos, flowering, fruiting, ecological importance,
family, origin and uses. The publication of this material is possible by the existence
of the project “Preservação Sustentabilidade da Vegetação Arbórea” (Preservation