Cenários de uso da terra nas mesobacias hidrográficas dos igarapés Timboteua e Buiuna, Pará

Abstract

The northeastern Pará is among the first regions of the Amazon receiving projects for induction occupation. Their forms of land use intensely focused on agricultural production triggered in the course of time a distortion of the natural landscape, natural resources and commitment to change in natural processes. Currently, the region is considered the most degraded landscape of the Amazon may be an example for areas frontier agricultural. Thus, this work focused on two river basins located between the towns of Igarapé-Açu and Marapanim in the northeastern region of the State of Pará, with the aim of understanding the dynamics of existing land uses, as well as its future trends, emphasizing their likely consequences on natural resources. The study adopted remote sensing techniques to obtain information about the dynamics of land use based on Landsat-TM image for the years 1984, 1994, 1999, 2004 and 2008. From the resulting use of dynamics, modeling tools were applied to generate future scenarios of land use, were also analyzed in terms of opportunity cost in some agricultural crops in order to discuss probable alternatives to existing forms of use. The results present the scenarios generated for the year 2020 for the two river basins studied; focuses on the impacts that may arise from the different scenarios generated and also highlight the need for projects that take into account local economic and social activities so that production and conservation can be complementary and not opposing, which can be built with technical and scientific support and political will.