The large enterprises in the Amazônia that commonly originate from development
plans created by public agents, are often central points of great discussions, as they
arouse interest in various segments of society. Looking at past events and even the
execution of large current projects, he realizes that the most relevant projects for the
region, benefit capital holders more than the local population itself. This research has
as main objective to analyze the environmental and socioeconomic effects of the
waterway transport works implemented by PAC in the Amazon, for this it sought to
identify how the territorial planning is projected in the PAC waterway investment
plans, to understand the public policies arising from the carrying out the PAC works
in the region and assessing how these investments impacted and will impact on the
region's environmental and socioeconomic development. The area covered by the
survey is located mainly on the Madeira River and Tapajós-Teles Pires. Using the
technique of content analysis, with qualitative and quantitative characteristics, in
order to describe the policies proposed by the PAC and demonstrate the relationship
between the Amazon and the river and how the introduction of new tactics in the
environment affects the territory and finally demonstrated a analysis of simple linear
correlation of the investments made by the PAC in waterways with the tons of
products drained by the Amazonian waterways, in a descriptive and comparative way
of the secondary data extracted mainly from public documents of the federal
government. Among the main results found, 62 municipalities in the Legal Amazon
would be affected by the construction works of waterway terminals or by the widening
of the navigability of the Amazônas River, Madeira, Tocantins and Tapajós corridors.
Also perceiving a moderate relationship between PAC investments in waterways and
the flow of production on inland waterways.
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