Impactos socioambientais na cidade de Barra do Garças-MT: projeto da orla do Rio das Garças

Abstract

Environmental impacts refer to the changes that human activities cause in the environment, affecting biodiversity, ecosystems and quality of life. These impacts can be positive or negative, but most of them are harmful, resulting in environmental degradation. This study aims to understand the socio-environmental impacts resulting from the project to revitalize the Rio das Garças waterfront in the city of Barra do Garças-MT. The research is exploratory, qualitative and quantitative. To this end, field visits were made to the site, questionnaires were carried out with the population, as well as conceptual and applied bibliographical research. Photographic analyses of the impacts between 2020 and 2024 were also carried out, comparing them to previous years. The results show that the poorly planned construction of the waterfront in the city of Barra do Garças has not only silted up the River Garças, but has also led to a huge loss of biodiversity, the ecological function of the APP, soil degradation, accelerated erosion, deforestation in the riverbed, which affects the entire natural and social environment at the waterfront construction site, as well as altering the entire ecosystem such as the river channel, harming fish and other animals. Furthermore, aware of the environmental impacts intensified after the work was carried out, we see the need for environmental education for the municipality, and above all for awareness-raising among residents and public authorities, and the completion of the work is one of the ways of trying to compensate for the degradation caused to the APPs, and the waste of public funds invested and all the negative impacts caused on the site. Planting native seedlings during and after the work is completed is necessary as a way of speeding up the process.