The urban space must be understood in a dynamic perspective having as reference the growth
of the city. In terms of environmental issues, the disorderly growth associated with the
inexperience of environmental and territorial planning incurs in the formation of socioenvironmental
problems and in the restructuring of the landscape. Through mathematical
modeling and geographic data, it is possible to understand the processes that operate between
social and cultural environments and the available natural resources. Associated to the
geoprocessing technologies, the landscape metrics are valuable tools in Landscape Ecology
to measure changes in a area of study by establishing temporal assessments of the
modification of landscape fragments, through the evaluation of criteria and establishment of
propositions that allow understand the transformation capacity of the territory. The general
objective of the present research is to understand the socio-environmental and ecological
transformations of the landscape in the urban watersheds of Altamira/PA, enabling the
formulation of a prognostic scenario to support the environmental urban planning process
through spatial assessment and application of landscape metrics to the forest fragments
related to the municipal urban perimeter, considering the time periods of 2000, 2010 and
2020.
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