Análise dos efeitos sócio-ambientais da carcinicultura marinha no município de Barra de Santo Antônio, estado de Alagoas

Abstract

Environmental problems have now achieved such a dimension which becomes a challenge to human survival. Taking into account that nature is the necessary and indispensable support of modern economy as well as of the future generation, sustainability must conciliate both the economical development and the preservation of the environment. Thus, only recently has been noticed that the balance of the ecosystems and the development of the economy are inter-related facts. In principle, any human activity which aims at exploiting the environmental resources impacts on the environment, among these activities is the production of food. One of the in-water food production is the technique of raising shrimp in captivity, well developed in many countries now. Shrimp raising, besides being an alternative to the supplying of the increasing demand of shrimp in the world, has become an important socioeconomic activity which positive and negative effects have been remarkably noticed in the regions of its settlement, among which the swamp areas are enhanced. On these grounds, and having in mind the three factors that founds the sustainable development: economically efficient, environmentally correct and socially fair, as well as the favorable and unfavorable concerns related to shrimp raising, a social-environmental analysis of this activity was held in the present work, characterizing the damages which were caused and identifying possible effects on the quality of life improvement of the community involved in this kind of activity. The research found the existence of an economic-based view from the social players involved in shrimp raising, where the perception of progress is privileged against the environmental an social aspects. In this way, it could be proved that the degree of perception of the society and of the community related do not evolve owing to the low level of education in the municipality, which impairs a participative management of the natural resources, thus generating an untrue feeling of development.