Socio-environmental characterization, territorial management diagnosis and analysis of the potential for sustainability at Vale do Guaporé Region, Rondônia State: challenges for sustainable tourism development, water management and environmental education

• Grant number: 22/10445-9
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: February 01, 2023
• End date: January 31, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Interdisciplinary Subjects
• Agreement: CONFAP - National Council of State Research Support Foundations
• Principal Investigator: Frederico Yuri Hanai
• Grantee: Frederico Yuri Hanai
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde (CCBS). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Alberto Dresch Webler ; Diego Armando Silva da Silva ; Ederson Lauri Leandro ; Fernanda Bay ; Irene Carniatto ; Jeferson Alberto de Lima ; Joao Gilberto de Souza Ribeiro ; Margarita Maria Duenas Orozco ; Milena Sciascio Ghidini ; Nara Luisa Reis de Andrade ; Nubia Deborah Araújo Caramello ; Regina Célia Macêdo do Nascimento ; Roberta Dias de Moraes Ribeiro
• Associated scholarship(s): 24/14287-4 - Understanding the good living of traditional communities as a contributor to the conservation of biodiversity and harmonious coexistence with the environment, BP.IC; 24/15462-4 - Socio-Environmental Vulnerability in Western Amazonia: Proposal for a Conceptual Model for Territorial Management of the Guaporé Valley - Rondônia, Brazil, BP.PD; 24/16742-0 - Spatial Characterization and Guidelines for Socio-environmental Sustainability in the Territories of the Guaporé Valley (State of Rondônia) and the Jari Valley (State of Amapá), BP.IC

Abstract

Vale do Guaporé and Vale do Jari are home to a rich socio-biodiversity, these territories are marked by socio-environmental conflicts that affect traditional populations and natural resources. In the first one, the impacts arising from sport fishing in the community of Rolim de Moura do Guaporé and Pedras Negras stand out, as the practice results in a predatory tourism that has caused serious problems to the local quilombola communities, decimating their food source, contaminated with effluents from waters of the Guaporé River. While the second has in the fight for the standing forest, especially the chestnut trees that maintain the livelihood of more than 10 traditional communities that live on its banks, including Iratapuru and São José. The objective is the joint understanding (community-mediators) of the use and management of the territory, through the socio-environmental characterization, the diagnosis of territorial management and tourism management and it is intended to analyze the sustainability potential of the Guaporé Valley - RO with replication of the Methodology in Vale do Jari - AP. We will use Participatory Research and Research - Action, as a decolonizing process and alternative to conventional methods of investigation, in search of the recognition of popular science and its convergence with traditional science, for the construction of collective knowledge related to socio-environmental management and intervention when necessary. The techniques to be used will be participant observation, field diary, interviews and action in the form of interventions through workshops, elaboration of pedagogical material, lectures and environmental mapping with multiple techniques. It is expected, the socio-environmental characterization of the territory, the systematization of endogenous proposals for a sustainable tourism that derives in income generation and local development of the populations of the region, to concretize an environmental and territorial management plan to minimize the identified negative impacts and to lead the hydrographic actors of these river territories in the construction of governance for regional development. (AU)