Environmental Impact Assessment in the Expedito Ribeiro Settlement, Santa Bárbara – Pará/Brazil

Abstract

Agrarian Reform was one of the two factors that most promoted or displaced human occupations in the Amazon. In this sense, this research aimed to evaluate the environmental impacts in the consolidation phase of the Term of Consent of Expedito Ribeiro Agroecological Rural Workers, located in the municipality of Santa Bárbara - PA. The methodology applied was an adapted Leopold interaction matrix and weighted quantitative checklist, in which 13 environmental elements were correlated with elements of the consolidation phase of the Opinion in question. The information was cross-referenced in a weighted way for the aspects of Magnitude and Importance and analysis of the Cumulative and Synergy properties. The results mainly show positive economic impacts of medium to high magnitude and mostly positive and of medium importance; Population in its most positive magnitude and importance interspersing the low levels and health in its most negative magnitude and importance varying between the low and high intervals. The cumulative properties present and absent will have positive aspects. Likewise, present and absent synergies. In short, the Expedito Ribeiro Settlement presents some problems common to other, of which two stand out: forest cover, signaling possible environmental impacts such as water and microclimatic deregulation, loss of biodiversity, in addition to favoring two erosive processes.