Revista GeoNordeste

26-41

Authors: Isabella Cunha Araújo, Jaqueline Alves Pereira, Jean Carlos Vieira Santos

This study aims to present Gouveinha Port, of Paranaíba River, based on the memories of “ferrymen” responsible for people, goods, cars, buses and trucks crossings between the interiors of Minas Gerais and Goiás. It seeks to understand the past events that explain the present situation of the analyzed landscape, a territory understood as a mosaic of meetings and reunions between the cultures of Minas Gerais and Goiás in Brazilian cerrado. The research begins from the discussion about the concept of memory, in the centralizing dimension that aims to integrate the proposed debate to the reality found in Gouveinha Port, overarching the historical trajectory of its crossings constant in the memories of social subjects who have experienced such landscape in other times. It can be said that the present investigation uses the analytical and case study methods with a qualitative approach. Regarding the methodological aspects, the research was divided into two phases – documentary research (references survey) and fieldwork – and, through that, the photographic material was constructed and the report of the researched people were obtained, bringing the voices of “balseiros” as the main result of this article.

56-75

Authors: Jaqueline Pinheiro, Francisco Edmar de Sousa Silva

The main objective of this article is to identify the main natural attributes and to discuss possible strategies to advance the sustainability of the use and occupancy processes in the Serra de Baturité. The mountain range of Baturité is home to the largest, richest and most exuberant remnant of Atlantic forest in the state of Ceará. Historically this environment has suffered from the demands arising from the complex and dynamic relationship between society and nature. The proximity to the state capital, Fortaleza, as well as the pressure exerted by the surrounding municipalities, besides the development of tourist activity and the precariousness of agricultural techniques, has caused serious environmental damage to the natural ecosystem with significant socioeconomic repercussions. After almost 27 years of its creation, new dynamics were being incorporated and some revitalized, raising the pressure on the mountain ecosystem, being necessary the establishment of new mechanisms of conservation of the local biota. One can highlight the introduction of a mosaic of Private Reserves of Natural Heritage and the reduction of the altimetric quota as tools potentially capable of fomenting, in all its dimensions, sustainability in the area of study.