A história da devastação dos manguezais aracajuanos

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Fernanda Cordeiro de
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFS
• Texto Completo: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/4280
• topic: Aterro; Planejamento ambiental; História Ambiental e Impactos Sócioambientais; Covering with earth; Environmental planning; Environmental History; Environmental social impacts; CNPQ::OUTROS

This dissertation aims at understanding, based on Aracaju city history, the reasons why the mangroves of the city were covered with earth. To answer this question, it was necessary to state three more specific objectives: to indentify the reasons for mangroves covering throughout Aracaju history; to locate the areas where there used to be mangroves, but not anymore; and to show the relationship between the aracajuano inhabitant and the mangroves. After the first step of the research, the data collection, the research documents were categorized, according to Bardin (1977). In the first specific objective there are the categories named public sphere and the public-private connection, divided into another classes: health, accessibility, housing and real estate speculation; the last two objectives can be observed throughout the analysis. The historical sources studied, like the reports given by the presidents of Sergipe province in the 19th century, point out the covering as a constant routine. Together with this findings, the observation of the recent urbanization, mainly in Jardins area (1996-1997) and the occupation on the mangroves are the reason for the first time delimitation from 1855 to 2005. Although the 150 year-celebration could stop the analyzes about the theme and induce to the total history, that is not the purpose. From this research, the reasons for the coverings show a continuous time and, besides that, an agreement by civil society in which the government is included. Finally, this study, while historical study of the devastation and partial extinction of Aracaju mangroves, does not intend to judge the man from the past, but to alert to its probable extinction.