DYNAMICS OF LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGES AND SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF SINOP-MT

Land use cover and changes due economic development affects biological dynamics, as biogeochemical cycles and biophysical factors. The objectives of this study were (a) to identify the land use and land cover changes in the municipality of Sinop-MT over the years 1984, 1994, 2004, 2014 and 2022, (b) to quantify the efficiency of carbon sequestration in different classes of land use and land cover,
and (c) to investigate the surface temperature in different years of land use and land cover changes. Our analysis suggests that along these years, the study area had an average of 25% change, with the Forest class having the greatest decrease (-47%) and the Anthropic Actions class with the greatest increase (42%). It can be concluded that the geographic space lost Amazon Forest for the insertion of diverse economic activities, which decreased the absorption of CO2 and increased the average surface temperature as a whole.