Conflitos socioambientais e erosão costeira: o caso de Ajuruteua, Bragança – PA

Abstract

The coastal erosion on Ajuruteua Beach has been intensifying over the last years.The beach advances about five meters annually, destroying the streets and houses that were inserted there improperly. The current work purposes to study the fields of coast line management at Ajuruteua, Bragança – PA aiming to create new instruments that can contribute to building solutions to minimize social and environmental problems arising from the process of appropriation and use of the beach.Through three chapters with distinct and complementary themes and by semi-structured interviews, analysis of documents and exploratory fields, this work has succeeded in pointing the main actors of the conflicts in the region and how they are related to coastal erosion besides the analysis of the process of municipal Coastal Management and of these main gaps. Taking into account these analyzes it was possible to carry out a participatory cartography as a participatory tool of how the community perceives its own territory and the significant characteristics of it. Among such limitations, has been shown that Ajuruteua suffer the issue of management competences since there is currently no body entirely responsible for the beach. This problem rise a conflict in competences influencing directly the community there, in reason of not even the port owners knew who is in charge of the beach. In view of the importance of this work mainly from the participatory mapping that serve as an instrument to empower and strengthen the Ajuruteua community.