2015-08-272015-08-272009BACELAR, Maria Denise Ribeiro. Epidemias de malária no Pará e sua relação com os padrões de uso da terra nos últimos quarenta anos: uma análise com sistema de informação geográfica. Orientador: Adriano Venturieri. 2009. 188 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Ciências Ambientais) - Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Federal do Pará, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Belém, 2009. Disponível em: http://repositorio.ufpa.br:8080/jspui/handle/2011/6852. Acesso em:https://repositorio.ufpa.br/handle/2011/6852This study aimed to investigate the relationship between the occurrence of malaria epidemics in Para State and the types of space occupation observed there, configured in the main uses of land in the period from 1970 to 2007, seeking to verify the hypothesis that malaria epidemics in Para has been a consequence of space occupation methods (use of the land). So, we tried to examine statistically the relationship between the rates of malaria and population and population and predominant production activities in Para and its regions and the evolution of these variables over time. Also, four villages were selected in Para (one per geographical region), located in the pioneer occupation area in the State, one of them was elected the control village in the study and they were all mapped in order to analyze temporal dynamics of its landscapes over the years 1975, 1991 and 2008. In the selected villages − Itaituba, Anajas, Tucurui and Juruti, − the main landscape types established were identified, and their temporal evolution analyzed, in attempt to verify the existence or not of a cause-effect relationship between these models of landscape and the malaria occurrence in these locations in the period investigated. It was possible to demonstrate in this study, by the data investigated, its historical evolution and statistical correlations, the hypothesis that malaria epidemics in Para in that period, is a consequence of misconducted occupation processes, resulting from government policies introduced in the region after 1970. Similarly, a cause-effect relationship between production activities introduced in the Region and malaria epidemics reported here proved evident. A relevant fact is that geographical occurrence of malaria in the State remains epidemic in areas, as investigated here, where primary production activities are performed using no environmentally correct methods.porAcesso AbertoUso do soloEpidemiaMaláriaDinâmica da paisagemPará - EstadoAmazônia brasileiraDissertaçãoCNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::GEOGRAFIA::GEOGRAFIA REGIONAL