Study of urban environmental quality of the districts Murucupi and Vila do Conde in Barcarena Pará with the use urban indicators’s environment

Abstract

The urban expansion in the Amazon, in the last half century, is the result of the planned implantation of Large Industrial Enterprises. This development model in new productive spaces integrated with global modernity has caused adverse social and environmental effects. The city’s Barcarena, as a space urban Amazonian, is a mirror of this contradictory scenario, between development and socioenvironmental impacts. The objective of this study is to describe, express and analyze the environmental quality of the Districts Barcarena Industrial, corresponding to the Murucupi and Vila do Conde Districts, using urban environmental quality indicators as methodology. The collected data were used to interpret the variables that cause socio-environmental impacts in the urban-industrial environment of the Large Enterprises in Barcarena. The results of the water supply indicators 3.6 points, sanitary sewage, 4.8 points, collection of solid waste 19.6, paving of roads, 7.5 and vegetation cover, 9.3; and when aggregated, they point to a bad environmental quality index, 44.8 points, since the maximum score of the proposed index corresponds to 100 points. The score of 44.8 points of the environmental quality index expressed as a whole to the unhealthy socio-environmental conditions is the denial of access to drinking water supply, sanitation, the paving of roads and vegetation cover, essential rights for the residents of this territorial area urban, with imminent risk to their quality of life and compromise to their health.