Diagnóstico ambiental e cartografia de geossistemas como subsídio ao planejamento territorial de Divisa Nova, sul de Minas Gerais

Abstract

Nature has undergone several transformations as a result of the pressures exerted by society and its exploratory economic model, Capitalism. The transformations occurred in Nature culminate in the existing spatial configuration, which in turn is the object of study of Geography, that is, the relations of Man with Nature. Thus, with this research, the objective is to carry out the integrated study of the landscape in the municipality of Divisa Nova (MG), under the geosystemic perspective as a subsidy to environmental planning. The municipality suffers from serious problems of territorial order for the preservation and conservation of its natural resources, such as the lack of an adequate territorial planning and planning, absence of sewage treatment, pressure from agricultural cultivation by pesticides, territorial expansion, among others. In this way, the systemic approach proceeds through the work of Sochava (1968), theory of geosystems, to achieve the analysis of potentialities and weaknesses through Geoenvironmental mapping, and to propose strategies and solutions to mitigate the environmental impacts caused in the area of study. The systemic approach is a method used by Physical Geography. Historically it developed from the breaking of religious conceptions about natural phenomena, and was intrinsically present in the works of naturalist geographer Alexander von Humboldt even before its consolidation as a research method, and was consolidated through Bertalanffy (1963), with the work General Systems Theory, Geography being later incorporated.