Sociedade e meio ambiente: um estudo em comunidades rurais no sul da Bahia

Abstract

This work analyzes the relationship between society and environment, starting from the two communities' ofsmall rural producers study in the south of the state of Bahia. It was sought to understand as the studied communities apprehend your space, that is, as they notice it and they use. It was also verified consequences ofchanges in the local ecosystem on the social structure and these communities' base productive. It still identified solutions that the communities are developing with the purpose of healing the diffículties for now lived. There is a urgent need to establish a balanced relationship between society and nature, in that both they are influenced mutually. This focus is particularly important in the alternative approaches forthe rural development, thatsees asofhighest need the involvement of the local population ifactions are intended in agreement with the sustentability. In this sense, it is necessary to consider the community as building social agent and maker of practices, that knows your space and apprehends it in a specific way. Your actions are based in a tradition of harmonic coexistence with the nature that is seen as a sacred being. In the studied communities, it was possible to verify this relationship that impeis them to organize the production sustained in the resources that they dispose, become pregnant as gift and therefore susceptible to be respected and conserved. The communities face diffículties provoked by the deforestation of the Atlantic forest. In spite ofali the problems, the communities don't give up your habitat and they seek forms to resist to the adversities and to stay halfinyour. However, it is necessary to support these actions for the communities to find the favorable conditions to stay in your space - the sustentability should be the guide of actions that stimulate the communities' self development, stepped in a perspective that conceives them as agents capable to determine and direct their own lives.