Avaliação da sustentabilidade do plano de gestão do corredor ecológico Araguaia – Bananal, inserido na bacia do médio Araguaia - Brasil

Abstract

The present study aimed at assessing the sustainability of the Management Plan of the Ecological Corridor Araguaia - Banana plantation, inserted in the Middle Araguaia, between the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso, Pará and Tocantins, whose field of action covers the areas of the Cerrado and Amazon. Evaluation tools, we adopted the methodological procedures of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) proposed by the Ministry of the Environment, by this permit analysis of broad and systemic action policies-Plans-Programs (PPP) over a particular region or sector focus. Their evaluation stages comprise the phases described below: Screening, whose function consisted in the exhibition of the plan, through the confirmation of the possibility and necessity to apply the SEA management plan ecological corridor, under plan to be inserted into a region of great importance to biodiversity conservation, and because it is an action of significant regional intervention. The degree conferred strategy in this case in a regional plan for land management, where its operations mainly comprises the mosaic of protected areas and communities under the influence of the region. Exposed were the main driving forces that influence the impacts to the environment, characterized by agricultural activities, the expansion of the urban population due to land concentration and rural exodus, development projects for the transportation logistics and power generation, and pressure for reform agrarian. The following stage consisted of the definition of Scoping, whose initial function ended up exposing the intention of the ecological corridor management plan Araguaia-Bananal, in its goals identification, which later confirmed to be compatible with the sustainable development goals praised by the Brazilian AGENDA 21. In the politics-plans–programs (PPP) identification, those that apply influence towards performance forces in the ecological corridor region had been chosen, whose goals had passed by the compatibility evaluation with the management plan goals, verifying itself the diverse conflicting points evaluation, in special to those that stimulate the farming development and the infrastructure sector. The main indicators of sustaintability and production had been established, totalizing 40 indicators, that had assisted the ambient evaluation process, where the adopted procedure used the causal flow DPSIR model, allowing simultaneously to identify the 7 driving forces performance and 71 environment impacts. The conclusion obtained by this study indicates to a management plan that has goals and actions that would be effective in its application, if the indicators surveyed and their scenarios, it pointed to a reality unfavorable expressed by the low level of socioeconomic development of the region and lack of connectivity in the actions of the public sphere, leading to the individualization of responsibility in solving the problems of social and environmental agenda.