In recent decades, there have been more debates related to environmental damage
that has been causing changes at a global level, according to the understanding of
the finitude of natural resources. The Amazon figures as a protagonist when thinking
about the protection of the global ecological heritage. Given its importance, the
largest tropical forest in the world has been contemplated with several projections to
preserve it. Altamira is a municipality in the center of the Legal Amazon and figures
as a reflection of the main problems faced in this territory. Traditional populations
coexist with agribusiness, and both are flooded by large projects, although one side
benefits more. The rural and the urban areas also provide the municipality with a
contrast that makes it especially difficult to point out or even define what would be
sustainable. Despite the numerous conflicts that do not allow this territory to
homogenize, this thesis sought to carry out a socio-environmental analysis based on
the axes of human well-being and environmental well-being, of multidisciplinary
nature, for the municipality of Altamira, based on the Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) launched in 2015 by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and
thus evaluate the main obstacles to the full sustainable development of the
municipality. To obtain the results, the methodology used is called the Barometer of
Sustainability (BS) and is the result of the major global conventions that debate the
courses that take the social, economic, and environmental dimensions. The results
obtained showed that Altamira has an intermediate level for sustainability and reflects
the need for a special look of the government to the indicators related to the great
socio-economic axis as well as the need for the elaboration of strategies to remedy
and contain the problems related to the great environmental axis. It was then
concluded that the municipality of Altamira is far from achieving the goals established
by the 2030 agenda, but that it presents breath and has demonstrated subtle
changes that are moving towards achieving such objectives. Finally, although limited,
this thesis was intended to date a result and create a basis for future research that
aims to analyze, add, or even refute results obtained for the municipality of Altamira.
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