Impactos resultantes da expansão das monoculturas de soja e eucalipto entre 2010 a 2019 na bacia do rio Macacoari, Estado do Amapá – AP

Abstract

The concerns listed with the reality of water resources have been stimulating, all around the world, a series of governmental and social measures, aiming to enable the continuity of many public and private activities focusing fresh water, in particular, those that directly affect people’s quality of life. Besides that, diagnoses about appropriation mode and the types of relationships kept by actors of the territorial dynamic with the natural resources, mostly on the water resources, have led over the past decades to a process of reviewing the state’s attributions and potentialities an its role as a user, and the use of water itself. The soy and eucalyptus monocultures productive chain are growing more and more, especially in the northern region of the country, which requires big areas and water resources. In this sense this article's objective is to analyze the advance of these cultures in the expansion of the Amapá’s economic frontier, as agents that modify the landscape, identifying the positive and negative aspects in the hydrographic basin of the Macacoari River, municipality of Itaubal - AP. For this, bibliographical reviews were made from papers and scientific works published between the years from 2010 to 2019, and a qualitative approach was taken, emphasizing a descriptive and explanatory analyses. As a result, it is pointed out the advance of cultures in the region of the hydrographic basin. Another important fact that was observed was the growing reduction of the native forest, mainly in the surroundings of its permanent preservation area. It was concluded that the expansion of these cultures has been causing significative devastations in areas close to it.