“…The study sought cumulative environmental risk in a location in the Greater Fortaleza, Metropolitan Region of the capital of the state of Ceará, Brazil. This study site was chosen because of the implementation, initiated in the mid-90s, of the Pecém Port Industrial Complex, considering that the performance of new economic activities in territories with specific geographical, demographic, and social characteristics usually brings harmful consequences to population well-being [17]. In the present case, the development of the port and of steel, thermoelectric, and other industrial activities, appears to have also led to significant economic transformations (variations of GDP and its repercussions), and social transformations (variations in the HDI, migratory flows, demographically high-density areas, expropriation, and resettlement of population groups).…”