2018-03-132018-03-132017-06-30TAGORE, Márcia de Pádua Bastos. O aumento da demanda do açaí e as alterações sociais, ambientais e econômicas: o caso das várzeas de Abaetetuba, Pará. 2017. 155 f. Dissertação (Mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Pará, Núcleo de Meio Ambiente, Belém, 2017. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Gestão de Recursos Naturais e Desenvolvimento Local na Amazônia. Disponível em: <http://repositorio.ufpa.br/jspui/handle/2011/9548>. Acesso em:.https://repositorio.ufpa.br/handle/2011/9548The aim of this research was to examine the increase in açaí demand and the changes in the Amazon floodplain areas, trying to understand how production systems, through intensive models of açaizeiros management, have caused social, environmental and economic changes in riverine life, that adopting practices different from those usually used in the extractive process of production of açaí are the result of changes of several orders, with consequent risks for society. The case study was carried out in Abaetetuba, Pará, based on the analysis of information from 56 dispersed families in 24 Agroextractive Settlement Projects (PAE) of the 72 islands that make up the municipality. Among the families financed for the açaí activity with resources from the National Program for Strengthening Family Farming (PRONAF), based on the database of 56 Appointments to Pronaf (DAP), were chosen for analysis. Time between 2003 and 2016. The exploratory visits were made to the properties of 10 riverside inhabitants in the year 2015 and 2016, when the semi-structured open interviews were carried out with the participation of the families, the questionnaires were applied and the field explorations carried out with ethnographic records, Photographic and geographic coordinates. The management of açai trees in the floodplain areas has provided an increase in the production and income of riverside, but has also implied alterations in cultural, social and work relations, as well as in the environment, leading to the process of landscape homogenization, with a reduction in the species diversification, which will cause in the medium and long term, socioenvironmental risks where they are installed threatening the sustainability of the Várzea ecosystem, with consequences in the production and productivity of the açaizeiros.Acesso AbertoAçaíAçaí - Aspectos sociaisAçaí - Aspectos ambientaisAçaí - Aspectos econômicosVárzeas - AmazôniaAbaetetuba (PA)DissertaçãoCNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::RECURSOS FLORESTAIS E ENGENHARIA FLORESTALUSO E APROVEITAMENTO DOS RECURSOS NATURAISGESTÃO DOS RECURSOS NATURAIS E DESENVOLVIMENTO LOCAL