This work presents the first results achieved through an interdisciplinary and multi-institutional effort conduct by the Geoma Network, aiming to advance in the comprehension of the new frontiers in the South of the Pará State, in the Amazonian region, by examining the new patterns of deforestation and the underlying processes that are generating them. Our objective is to product information aiding to draw responsible public policies considering not only one dimension of the problem like roads infra-structure, as usual. Based on the analysis presented here we pointed out that only an integrated solution, that considers the main actors and the organization of economical processes in the productive chains over the region, would be capable to minimize the effects of deforestation and would drive an integrated development policy to the region bringing benefits to forest conservation and the local population.
Land use; land appropriation; deforestation; conservation unities; frontiers
