@Article{GuerreroECMBOPSM:2020:AsLaUs,
               author = "Guerrero, Jo{\~a}o V. R. and Escobar Silva, Elton Vicente and 
                         Chaves, Michel Eust{\'a}quio Dantas and Mataveli, Guilherme A. V. 
                         and Bourscheidt, Vandoir and Oliveira, Gabriel de and Picoli, 
                         Michelle Cristina Ara{\'u}jo and Shimabukuro, Yosio Edemir and 
                         Moschini, Luiz E.",
          affiliation = "{Universidade Federal de S{\~a}o Carlos (UFCar)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de 
                         Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Universidade Federal de S{\~a}o 
                         Jo{\~a}o del-Rei (UFSJ)} and {Universidade Federal de S{\~a}o 
                         Carlos (UFCar)} and {University of Toronto} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de 
                         Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Universidade Federal de S{\~a}o 
                         Carlos (UFCar)}",
                title = "Assessing land use and land cover changes in the direct influence 
                         zone of the Bra{\c{c}}o Norte Hydropower Complex, Brazilian 
                         Amazonia",
              journal = "Forest",
                 year = "2020",
               volume = "11",
               number = "9",
                pages = "e988",
                month = "Sept.",
             keywords = "environmental impact, LULCC drivers, MapBiomas, temporal analysis, 
                         hydroelectric energy.",
             abstract = "Over the decades, hydropower complexes have been built in several 
                         hydrographic basins of Brazil including the Amazon region. 
                         Therefore, it is important to understand the effects of these 
                         constructions on the environment and local communities. This work 
                         presents a land use and land cover change temporal analysis 
                         considering a 33-year period (19852018) in the direct influence 
                         zone of the Bra{\c{c}}o Norte Hydropower Complex, Brazilian 
                         Amazonia, using the Collection 4.1 level 3 of the freely available 
                         MapBiomas dataset. Additionally, we have assessed the Brazilian 
                         Amazon large-scale deforestation process acting as a land use and 
                         land cover change driver in the study area. Our findings show that 
                         the most impacted land cover was forest formation (from 414 km2 to 
                         287 km2 , a reduction of 69%), which primarily shifted into 
                         pasturelands (increase of 664%, from 40 km2 to 299 km2 ). The 
                         construction of the hydropower complex also triggered indirect 
                         impacts such as the presence of urban areas in 2018 and the 
                         consequent increased local demand for crops. Together with the 
                         ongoing large-scale Amazonian deforestation process, the 
                         construction of the complex has intensified changes in the study 
                         area as 56.42% of the pixels were changed between 1985 and 2018. 
                         This indicates the importance of accurate economic and 
                         environmental impact studies for assessing social and 
                         environmental consequences of future construction in this unique 
                         region. Our results reveal the need for adopting special policies 
                         to minimize the impact of these constructions, for example, the 
                         creation of Protected Areas and the definition of locally-adjusted 
                         parameters for the ecological-economic zoning considering 
                         environmental and social circumstances derived from the local 
                         actors that depend on the natural environment to subsist such as 
                         indigenous peoples, riverine population, and artisanal 
                         fishermen.",
                  doi = "10.3390/f11090988",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f11090988",
                 issn = "1999-4907",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "guerrero-assessing.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "28 abr. 2024"
}