Análise comparativa da evolução da planície costeira da Praia do Abaís entre os anos 1984 e 2016

Abstract

Abaís beach, located in Estância’scity, southern coast of Sergipe state, has been impacted with an intense urbanization process caused by many factors, especially the governmental interest in the tourism development, in this region and adjacencies, because of the environmental attractiveness, like beaches, dunes and lagoons. This insertion of tourism activity followed by unplanned urbanization has generated negative socio-environmental impacts, such as coastal erosion with visible material damages, intriguing researchers and harming the tourism in this region. In order to understand how this urbanization process interfered in the landscape configuration of this beach and in the natural cycles of the coastal environment, the objective of this study is to analyze, through the comparation of Google Earth satellite images from 1984 and 2016, the Abais beach coastal plain evolution. For that, zoning was elaborated, delimiting the landscape units, considered more significant, for the two images; these delimitations enabled the survey of the area of each unit for each year, allowing, together with the zoning, analyzes within the legislative, environmental and social spheres that are interconnected with each other. The irregular and disorderly occupation of Abaís beach with its social and environmental negative impacts demands more efficient planning, with severe inspections, aimed at economic development ally to environmental preservation.