A degradação ambiental e a exclusão social: estudo de caso do Município de Lorena/SP

Abstract

Historically, the region of “Vale do Paraíba” has suffered a severe depredation of its forest richness and in the last 50 years a considerable demographic expansion associated with an intense and diversified industrial development has intensified the degradation of its natural resources. This paper studies Taboão, Mandi and Quatinga brooks, and these three have some common characteristics: they are watersheds in the municipality of Lorena and the tributaries of the right bank of the Paraíba do Sul river. They born in the rural area and in a transversal way, they cross the city through rural and urban-industrial landscapes and conservation areas. The three brooks face problems such as lack of basic sanitation, waste disposal and irregular occupation of permanent preservation areas. The aim of this study is to analyze the sensibility of the environmental degradation indicators along to these three water bodies in relation to the “lex” (Exclusion Index), which is obtained through the Exclusion Map method. The Exclusion Map uses intra-municipal data from a demographic census of 2010, carried out by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and its goal is to diagnose socio-economic indicators in different parts of the territory, that are more related to the environmental degradation and, consequently, to corroborate for a continuo process of public policies formulation that are dedicated to seek a sustainable development.