Atividade portuária em Barcarena (Pará): caracterização e análise ambiental de seus efeitos no desenvolvimento local da vila de Itupanema

Abstract

The current work’s main objective is to characterize and analyze the environmental changes caused by the port activity and their effects over the local development at Itupanema village, located at Barcarena County / PA, over the past 20 years. The analysis of the aspects and environmental impacts was realized through the analytical process of Evaluation Post- Occupation (APO) based in bibliography and georeferenced data setting-up. Starting at the selected remote sensing image, the APO took place by visual interpretation technique, eletromagnetical radiation and digital classification of the images for empirical investigation of the environmental urban expasion fenomena and the impacts over Itupanema village. The results showed that was a progressive growth of urban areas over the vegetation. As results, this work concludes that the Itupanema village had suferred sensitive changes caused by the great enterprises established near the community, with special emphasis on Albrás, Alunorte, Pará Pigmentos, Imerys Rio Capim Caulim from 2000 to 2005, and after that was affected by the construction of the Ports, making a metamorphosis at the original landscape, highlighting the suppression of the green areas giving place to urban areas as side reflex of the populational expansion at the Barcarena County. The changes were the main responsible of several environmental impacts as the deforestation and the absence of the local development expected for the the Itupanema village community.