Análise jurídica e territorial do desmatamento na região de Pato Branco, Paraná

Abstract

Humanity has long known that resources are finite. However, not always the development desired by a certain society established in a given territory is consistent with the availability of natural resources, reflecting directly on the quality of the soil and installing an "unsustainable" development. In this scenario, the objective of this research was to analyze deforestation using as a starting point cases of environmental infraction and pedological characteristics in the Pato Branco Region, Paraná. The results were obtained through the analysis of several concepts in different disciplines and also by the use of geotechnologies in the elaboration of thematic maps. Five zones of environmental pressure were observed, in which the class of soil that has the highest incidence of deforestation is also the class of soil that houses the predominant activity. In addition, deforestation occurred in more sensitive and erosion-prone soils, as a historical result of colonization, which first occupied soils with higher production capacity. In the long run, the solution will always be environmental education and the eradication of social and economic inequalities. But in the short term, in the environmental issue, the strengthening of public environmental policy represents an alternative response to the crisis.