Evolução do uso e cobertura na cidade de São Benedito e seus aspectos socioeconômicos

Abstract

The objective of this work is to relate the evolution of land use and land cover in the city of São Benedito with its socioeconomic aspects presented by the municipality in the period from 1990 to 2020. São Benedito is one of the 184 municipalities in the state of Ceará, located in the Northwest of this federative unit, in the planning region of Serra da Ibiapaba. In the last decades, the municipality has undergone numerous changes, from becoming one of the country's flower-producing powers, to the implementation of an airport and the gain of a University Campus. Thus, knowing the changes in the use and coverage of the municipality is important, as its indiscriminate use can result in negative impacts in the environmental, social and economic spheres. For this purpose, use and coverage and socioeconomic data of the municipality were used. The methodology consisted of associating the two types of data through a diagnostic approach seeking cause and effect relationships. With the greatest expression in the results, the expansion of the urbanized area, pasture, emergence of the class of other temporary crops, which are associated with investment in infrastructure, increase in the rate of urbanization and population, the jump in the number of jobs in the of agriculture, implementation of new ventures and the appearance of companies in the industrial sector. Therefore, it is recommended that this information be publicly known, since São Benedito is a municipality with potential for development and natural wealth, to guide decision-making and the elaboration of a master plan.