Estruturação de um estudo de modelagem de escolha no igarapé do Mestre Chico em Manaus-AM

Abstract

This objective work to define ambient attributes of the narrow river of Mestre Chico to subsidize studies of economic valuation, mainly those that use the technique of Declared Preference. The results reached here for the narrow river of Mestre Chico will be able to guide the formularization and implementation of ambient politics and to awake the interest of the society for its restoration and preservation. Two methods of valuation are applicable in this context where if it looks for esteem unrelated value to the use of ambient attributes - contingent valuation and joint analysis. This last one was chosen because it carries through the valuation study analyzing a set of characteristics of an ambient good, while the other value in function of a scale of monetary values previously established and submitted to the interviewed ones. The method of Joint Analysis is a used tool esteem the relative importance that the interviewed ones confer the definitive attributes of goods and services and the utilities associates to these attributes. For its application it has the necessity of the definition of attributes and its levels, that in this work had been selected by the technique of Group of Focus. The election process was complemented by means of interviews with specialists and for consultation the secondary sources. This method allows to the public manager the use of a tool capable to evaluate the preference of the population how much the diverse attributes of projects, programs and public politics. To the end of this work an excellent set of attributes and levels was selected. This will allow the organization of alternatives - a combination of diverse attributes, that applied in the methodology of Joint Analysis, will be capable to catch the declared value of interviewed in relation to the recovery and the maintenance of the ambient quality of the Narrow river of Mestre Chico or other similar courses of water.