The sugar cane cultivation and related industries expansion in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, at this moment, is a challenge to the development of methodologies that will allow following and monitoring the socioeconomic environment, assuring life quality to local population under an accelerated process of changes. It was developed a search on the process of Environmental Impact Studies of sugar cane industries which own an Operation License, along with the Environmental Institute of Mato Grosso do Sul through the Management and Environmental Licensing Department, to diagnose the quality of social-economic approach. Seventeen Environmental Impact Studies were analyzed and it was noted that the utilized data are always secondary, there is no field research and the results demand theoretical and methodological definitions so they are able to evaluate correctly the impacts over the local population and their implications in communities dynamics.
Social-economic studies; Life quality; Environmental impact evaluation