VIGILÂNCIA AOS EFEITOS DA NOVA FRONTEIRA AGRÍCOLA: UMA ANÁLISE PARTICIPATIVA SOCIOAMBIENTAL E DE RISCO À SAÚDE DAS COMUNIDADES EXPOSTAS À POLUIÇÃO ATMOSFÉRICA EM ÁREAS DE TRANSIÇÃO DE CERRADO-AMAZÔNIA, SUDESTE DO PARÁ

Abstract

The Southeast Para is one of the agricultural frontier regions of the Brazilian Amazon that contextualizes a broad history of territorial expansion based on social conflicts. Thus, this research aimed to identify municipalities at environmental and epidemiological risk and their socio-environmental problems and health impact in communities exposed to air pollution. The work method was based on the analysis of the reports on the Instruments for the Identification of Municipalities at Risk (IIMR). For the socio-environmental participatory diagnosis, socio-demographic questionnaires were applied and a thematic workshop was conducted, based on the intervention approach of the problem tree. According to the risk diagnosis, 64.1% of the municipalities in the mesoregion are in a situation of high environmental and epidemiological vulnerability, exposing the RI Tucuruí Lake as the most susceptible region due to the impacts resulting from the expansion of economic matrices, mainly by agriculture and cattle raising and hydroelectric power. The perception of social actors clarified a lack of dialogue with frontier communities about the imminent risks of progressive agribusiness actions, as well as the lack of maintenance of public policies dealing with health and the environment in defense of a better quality of life in the communities.