Urbanização e impactos socioambientais em Santarém (PA): ações, dilemas e conflitos

Abstract

The present work aims to discuss the urbanization process in the Amazon, in particular the case of the city of Santarém, and to identify the main socioenvironmental problems resulting from this process that occurred in a disorderly way and also to analyze how the municipal government acted in this context. Thus, a case study is presented, whose results were obtained after the completion of the following steps, documentary survey, selection of the most relevant works for research, and data analysis, steps supported by bibliographic research of literature associated with documentary, in addition to a descriptive research, in order to obtain a better understanding of the researched topic in order to gather, deepen, obtain and analyze the results. In this way, it was possible to identify that the process of organizing the urban space took place in a precarious and unplanned manner, with the emergence of irregular occupations in preservation areas, and that these factors required immediate actions from the public agents of the city in question, which in return, they drew up and approved the Participatory Master Plan of the Municipality of Santarém, which standardized the legislation in all segments of the municipality, and promoted the Municipal Sanitation Policy, Environmental Code and the Municipal Solid Waste Policy.