A transformação do espaço amazônico e seus refl exos na condição atual da cobertura e uso da terra The transformation of amazon space and its refl ections on current condition of land use and land cover

Throughout its history, Amazonia has experienced an intense process of transformation in form and in content, involving different social, political and economic elements acting in the transformation of its space. Thus, through the interpretation of present-day land use and land cover, it is possible to verify how the different actors and politics involved were associated in each specifi c moment in history and how this is currently refl ected in space. Making use of this interpretation, the intention here is to assess these elements and their corresponding transformations in nature in order to establish reference points for reading the process of deforestation that Amazonia suffered in the last forty years and under what conditions these areas were transformed.