Avaliação dos impactos ambientais causados pela construção da Br-242/TO

Abstract

The environment is not just important for the economy or for social well-being, it is an essential good for human life. The environmental impacts resulting from anthropic actions are directly responsible for the spread of cities, with their social, economic and political interconnections. Socioeconomic growth gives rise to the demand for road construction, which makes it possible to transport goods and people. The theme of environmental impacts generated by the construction and/or implementation of highways in Brazil is extensive and studied, both internally and externally, and generates an improvement, both in science and in the behavior of actors, by seeking to minimize these impacts. This work aims to demonstrate and analyze the results of environmental reports from the following programs: a) Vegetation Suppression and Flora Rescue; b) Wild Fauna Scaring and Rescue; c) Execution of the Monitoring Program for Water Bodies produced between 2016 and 2019 and carried out within the scope of the execution of environmental management services for the construction and paving works of the BR-242/TO highway. In the methodological path, we will use the reports produced that accompanied the activities developed in the field, regarding the suppression of vegetation and rescue of flora, driving away and saving wild fauna and the monitoring of water bodies, during the paving of the BR-242, in the State of Tocantins. The analysis of these materials will allow us to observe how these processes of environmental mitigation took place, assuming that every landscape that receives roads is associated with the occurrence of negative impacts on biotic integrity, both in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Concluding the importance of environmental management in the implementation of the BR-242/TO Highway is explained in this study, when we demonstrate the implementation of environmental programs to minimize negative impacts and maximize positive impacts on the environment. The set of these reports made it possible that, before, during and after the work, significant environmental impacts to the environment of Tocantins were reduced, resulting in environmental sustainability in the work process and gains for the environment and the community in which the BR-242/TO was built.