Environmental sustainability indicators for the quilombola territory of Serra da Guia/SE

Abstract

Environmental sustainability indicators are tools that enable detailed analysis of the forms of land use and occupation, assisting in the management and proposition of more effective territorial planning strategies to promote environmental sustainability. In this sense, the objective of this work was to measure environmental sustainability indicators for the Serra da Guia quilombola territory in the municipality of Poço Redondo/SE. To this end, 111 residents of the Serra da Guia quilombo were consulted and maps of land use and occupation, maps of APP areas and conflict of land use in the year 2020 were drawn up to select environmental indicators, in addition to on-site visits to analysis of anthropic actions in the area. The results indicate that the quilombo has a regular environmental sustainability index (0.4167) and that the indicators with the worst values were ‘estination of Solid Waste’, ‘Sanitation’ and ‘% APP’ followed by ‘Landscape’. It was also noted that the conflict in the use and occupation of land in areas intended for preservation is evident, so that the most common conflictive use is grazing and exposed soil, demonstrating the presence of anthropic activity in legally protected areas. Thus, policies for the recovery of these areas of environmental protection are necessary, as APPs are important instruments for the conservation of ecosystems.