Valoração econômica do impacto ambiental decorrente dos resíduos gerados pelo transporte fluvial no porto da Manaus Moderna

Abstract

It is a fact that the population growth is responsible by demand increasing for transport services, by land, air or waterway. Given the almost nonexistence of the first two, the latter prevails in the case of the Amazon. Consisting of medium and large ships, which, it transports between 200 and 600 passengers by trip. The main consequence is the increased volume of waste generated during the travels. An alternative to this problem would be to create a tax system designed specifically to mitigate the environmental impact caused. As it is expected such taxation would minimize the adverse effects, once the obtained funds by taxation could be used to pay all or part of collection and disposal services for such wastes. Thus, it can suggest the following questions: "Would the passengers are willing to pay a monetary amount for the mitigation of environmental impact caused by solid waste generation? If so, how much is that amount? Consequently, the researched goal is to verify if the waterway transport users in Amazonas are willing to pay a monetary value, monthly, to mitigate the environmental impact resulting from waste generated during the travels. According to the results, it can conclude that users are willing to pay a value, being approximately R$ 67.00 / user / month. However, the charging of a monthly fee becomes impractical, since the frequency to use the service is not monthly, and neither constant. In this sense it is suggested that in future work should be considered a DAP value/passenger/trip. This value may also be biased by the distance or time of travel.