Análise socioambiental do município de Belém, Pará: elementos para uma sustentabilidade urbana

Abstract

In recent centuries, the world witnessed "economic progress" at the expense of the exploitation of natural resources and significant urban growth, almost always disorderly, forming unprepared cities that can not manage properly and thus welcome the huge human contingent and absorb the social demands, making their populations vulnerable. In the city of Belém, which is one of the great cities of the Amazon, with more than one million inhabitants, the population is subject to a series of ills. The territory is permeated by a series of problems, be it social, economic and / or environmental, which prevents the city from reconciling the human-nature relationship and reaching the long-awaited sustainability. Thus, the present work aimed to map the social and environmental conditions of the city of Belém, on a macro scale, and a comparative analysis of two neighborhoods of the urban spot, Guamá and Nazaré, and based on this diagnosis, indicate Urban Planning methodology, which make that relationship compatible. The results pointed to precarious environmental and social conditions in the city of Belém, especially in the urban spot, which presents an urban space marked by degradation. These inadequate conditions can and should be addressed through Public Policies that incorporate environmental issues into their agendas, including the participation of society in decision making. Going further, it is necessary to guarantee apparatuses for an effective inspection of public organs, as well as of all citizens.