O entorno do parque nacional de Ubajara-Ce: caracterização socioambiental do Distritto de Araticum

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Araújo, Vilma Terezinha de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Meio ambiente; Desenvolvimento rural; Ecologia; Environment; Agricultural development; Ecology
• Link de acesso: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/16719

The aim of this work is to investigate the relationship between the Araticum Town and the National Park of Ubajara (NPU), as well as the changes occurred on the local community way of life since its implantation, in 1959. The study was carried out by both bibliographic and empirical research. Oral interviews were made between July/2002 and January/2003 and included representative members from several levels of the Araticum people, which gave information about the problems and the conflicts generated in the district. As the NPU was created, most of the 133 families that lived in the area had to move to Araticum. Some of them received some money, bought a piece of land and built their houses, whilst others started to live and work as employees. A great part of the locals survives from familiar agriculture and economic resources from the retirement of the elders. The lack of economic alternatives adequate to the local reality has contributed for the impoverishment of the people, as both vegetal and mineral extractive activities are illegal or irregular if not properly licensed. This research also found out that, after 45 years of implantation, there is no integration between human and natural processes, being a factor that leads to an increase of the degradation and impoverishment of the surrounding lands. Based on the knowledge and on the perception taken from the people of Araticum, we conclude that, despite of the NPU be considered a national reference in terms of structure of tourism and research, this fact did not influence positively its development. According to interviews with local habitants, during the NPU installation process any attention was given in respect to their necessities and aspirations, to their history, to their feelings and to their way of life. From this perspective, the current research discuss the way by which nature is being preserved in the NPU, making an island of it, while in the surroundings one can observe a sub exploration of the natural resources, particularly by the population that used to live in the area. It is clear, then, that the creation of conservation units is a necessity for the preservation of natural resources, but is also a complex subject, which deserves a better discussion and evaluation.