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PRÁTICAS DE PAISAGISMO EM ESPAÇOS DE CONVIVÊNCIA SOCIAL EM COMUNIDADES RURAIS E EM CENTRO DE EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL

The environmental education coupled with landscaping techniques have been used to improve the aesthetics of environments providing numerous benefits to society, thus contributing to improving the quality of life of users of these spaces. The landscaping techniques used for remodeling or landscape revitalization are essential to make the pleasant and conducive to socializing environment. Thus, this study aimed by performing landscaping and gardening workshops, transmit and develop matters on this issue, in order to landscaping areas of social life in rural communities in the municipality of Agudo, RS and CEASM - Centro Environmental Education of Santa Maria, RS. The workshops took place in two moments during the day, morning and afternoon, the morning was for the theoretical part on the topic landscaping and gardening. It was observed in the rural communities that the group of women who keeps care in the maintenance of social living spaces and the preservation of the environment and their cultures. You CEASM noted the concern of teachers to disseminate the knowledge of the ornamentation of school spaces, in order to provide users of these spaces a pleasant and childcare environment.

Diagnosis of the retail flower market of Santa Maria, RS

The present study aimed to diagnose the flowers retail market and ornamental plants in Santa Maria, RS, Brazil, by means of a research in loco, from January to June of 2013, based on questionnaires and interviews applied to the managers of the establishment, as well as of an application of a visual and phytosanitary scale to other establishments that sell flowers and ornamental plants, such as agricultural shops, fairs of horticultural products, supermarkets and providers of funeral services - cemeteries and funeral homes. The diagnosis aims to know the steps of the dynamics observed from the market of flowers until the final consumer, and to segment the types of floricultures, distinguishing them according to the commercial focus — floricultures of arrangements and bouquets, and producing flowers and landscape floricultures. Based on the diagnosis it can be concluded that the Santa Maria retail flowers and ornamental plants follows the national trend of floral arrangements and bouquets shops, with the increase of the companies focused on landscaping and gardening. Among the most marketed plants are the rose as the best-selling cut flower, the begonia as potted flower, the fern for foliage arrangements, the cactus as potted plant, the raffia as garden plant and the pansy as the best-selling plant in boxes

Rooting of cuttings and production of Euryops chrysanthemoides (DC.) B. Nord. in vase

The experiments were performed at the Department of Floriculture of UFSM from August 2013 to May 2014 in two experimental phases. The first experiment aimed to verify rooting Euryops chrysanthemoides in different concentrations of IBA, in a randomized block design, evaluated the number and length of roots. In the second experiment the different plant densities of E. chrysanthemoides pot (1, 2, 3 or 4 plants) in a completely randomized design and analyzed for the number of branches, number of buttons, number of open flowers and drought were evaluated, the average height of the branches, the middle notes of floral stems and closing the height of the vase. Observed a greater number and length of roots in 1.000 mg L-1 IBA. The density of four plants per pot is recommended to number 15

VALORAÇÃO AMBIENTAL SOBRE A PERSPECTIVA DOS PRINCÍPIOS DA PREVENÇÃO E DA PRECAUÇÃO

Among the currently most debated questions when it comes to the relationship between economic, ecological and environmental systems refer to associate economic values to environmental goods and process services. Environmental economic valuation is the identification of non-economic social values relating to the environment, thereby exerting its “incorporation” in concrete economic institutions. The present study aims to conduct a discussion on the topic of environmental economic valuation, in order to measure the activities that generate impacts on the environment through the principles of prevention and precaution, thus demonstrating the importance of values associated maintenance of life for the human beings as members of the environment, as well as their intrinsic values. The methodology used as the source for bibliographic research were books, articles and notes published in scientific journals in the area which include the theme. Thus, environmental legislation grounded in economic and financial activities proposed to anticipate the actions of environmental damage, with the subterfuge of environmental law in the form of the principles of precaution and prevention, which makes it the most efficient and practical environmental valuation. Therefore, the economic value of an environmental good, shouldn’t be a fine or environmental reconnections at their pleasure, as consequence of environmental damage randomly and without anticipatory planning that characterizes the act in fact caused. And, just a way to legally manage the projects, which involve and impact the environment, always seeking to mitigate its losses