Avaliação Ex Post dos impactos ambientais na agricultura irrigada, da cultura do melão no estado do Ceará

Abstract

Irrigated agriculture is an economic activity that is responsible for causing impacts on the environment in which it operates, whether beneficial or adverse impacts on the physical, biotic and socioeconomic environments. The constant development of irrigated agriculture, mainly directed to the melon culture, a crop of great importance in the Northeast, presents a diversity of positive actions, but also negative actions that impact the environment. This research aimed to carry out an ex post evaluation of the environmental impacts that occur in irrigated melon agriculture in the state of Ceará. An ex post checklist was prepared presenting the new impacts found in the operation and environmental monitoring phase of the project, in order to analyze the effectiveness of the Environmental Impact Assessment - EIA, in the study evaluated in this work. The survey of environmental impacts in the original checklist showed a number of 30 environmental impacts, 29 positive and 01 negative, while the new assessment called ex post checklist had a presentation of 67 environmental impacts, of which 53 were described as positive and 14 described as negative, totaling a difference of 37 new impacts.