PEREIRA, R. A.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1161147061360562; PEREIRA, Ronildo Alcântara.
Resumo:
It knows that the environmental problematic comes being discussed by practically all society
sectors. This big concern happens for the natural resources extinction caused by increase in
consumption and adherence of supranational organisms to the preservation speech. This
environmental crisis, that for many ones means a crisis of all civilization, evidences the greatest
consequences on emerging and poor countries, because of the production capitalist model which
normally it is over social and environmental interests. This crisis purchases alarming features,
especially on areas whose climatic conditions are determinants for the survival of the resident
populations and the inefficiency of the governmental policies for minimize the effects of successive
droughts, or it has a lack of local specifities knowledge, or yet because of the absence of a planning
which contemplate the neediest population. It could be cited here the evil to succeed programs to
the Brazilian Semi-arid like SUDENE, Projeto Sertanejo and DNOCS. In the other hand, the
introduction of mequite (Prosopis juliflora) in semi-arid overcomes any other governmental action
in this area, since immediately it was produced economic and social impacts of significant
importance, knowing that it was applied public money next to landowners set in the area. In
environmental terms, the impact happens when it was caused the deforestation of Caatinga to
introduce the exotic species. In this work, it was diagnosed the main environmental problems
existing at São João do Cariri-PB municipality, with greater emphasis on area most anthropic along
the Taperoá river, and it was evaluated how those problems affect living conditions of the resident
population. It is pointed that the use of satellite images in the analysis of the environmental impacts
evidenced a continuous process of loss of the vegetal covering in the last twenty years. Even so in
the last five years, it has observed a small recovery in some areas of the city. São João do Cariri-PB
city is totally inserted in the semi-arid zone, occupying 1.5% of the territory from the Paraíba state
and comes being explored for the agriculture and mainly for the cattle extensive, since the
colonization, resulting in an intense process of deforestation which is precipitated by a series of
other problems, as much environmental as social. The socioeconomical data analyses by this search,
through the questionnaires, gives support to confirm that the population shows a surprising
adaptability power to the conditions that are exposed. But, clearly, it is continued the search of
governmental actions that reflect in a physical infrastructure and assistance technique capable to
increase the productivity of the agricultural sector in analyzed city. It was testified, for occasion of
the field work, a true one confronts to the environmental laws, inadequate techniques of production,
unfamiliarity for the handling with defensives and other actions that if they reflect in ambient and
social degradation, what it strengthens, therefore, the necessity of governmental technique
assistance to the production in the agricultural environment.