Agricultural Frontier and the prioritization policy of the municipalities in combating the deforestation in the State of Pará, Amazônia
Fronteira Agrícola e a política de priorização dos municípios no combate ao desmatamento no Estado do Pará, Amazônia
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https://doi.org/10.36920/esa-v28n2-8Abstract
The expansion of the agricultural frontier is a reality in the Amazon region and in the State of Pará, agricultural activities have moved to the Southwest mesoregion of the state, implying in the increase of deforestation in the municipalities embargoed and priority sayings according to the Green Municipalities Program (PMV). Therefore, this research aimed to analyze the advance of the agricultural frontier in view of the PMV policy that prioritizes its actions to combat deforestation in the so-called embargoed municipalities, diametrically opposed to the group of green municipalities (MVs), which according to the PMV, has lower risk of deforestation in the State of Pará. It was verified that among the municipalities controlled (green municipalities)by the PMV deforestation remained stable and among the priority municipalities, deforestation increased substantially in the period from 2004 to 2016 even in the face of the impositions imposed by the program. Concomitantly, a large part of these municipalities are in the new frontier expansion areas, and the growth of agricultural and logging activities in terms of quantity and monetary values has stimulated this displacement. Energy projects and opening roads also contribute to this scenario. The inflection of environmental policies and the effective municipal environmental management that permeates the emerging concept of local governance are fundamental for the control of deforestation in Pará.
Keywords: deforestation; frontier; priority municipalities.
Article received on September 23, 2019. Accepted on March 9, 2020.
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CASTELO, Thiago Bandeira; ADAMI, Marcos; SANTOS, Ricardo Bruno Nascimento dos. Fronteira Agrícola e a política de priorização dos municípios no combate ao desmatamento no estado do Pará, Amazônia. Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura, Rio de Janeiro, v. 28, n. 2, p. 434-457, jun. 2020.
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