THE ENVIRONMENTAL PERCEPTION OF THE QUILOMBOLA COMMUNITY OF
SANTA JUSTINA/SAINT IZABEL
Environmental Perception; Quilombo of Santa Justina/Santa Izabel; Traditional communities
The concept of Environmental Perception, when related to traditional peoples, collaborates in demonstrating their intrinsic relationship - cognition and emotional - with biodiversity and their incessant action for preservation through management based on their ancestral knowledge. That is, through this study it is possible to outline new strategies to understand how traditional communities interact with the environment; there is the possibility of cooperating for the protection of traditional peoples and also building a route of assimilation of the community's identity before nature and thus exploring its culture and history. The present work aims to investigate how the community of Quilombo de Santa Justina/Santa Izabel, located in the municipality of Mangaratiba - RJ, relates to the environment in which it lives, in order to highlight its practices and contributions to the conservation of the natural and cultural heritage. During the work, information on the current situation of Quilombo de Santa Justina/Santa Izabel will be collected, such as the Technical Identification and Delimitation Report (RTID), documents on the history of the municipality and other bibliographical references. A survey of cartographic data will be carried out in the GeoInea Portal and in the National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA), in order to model the context's geospatial database. The overlapping of the quilombola territory with the Saco River Basin, the Cunhambebe State Park (PEC) and the Mangaratiba Environmental Preservation Area (APAMAN) and other socio-environmental aspects, such as land use and land cover, will be considered. Preliminarily, it was found that the portion of the Rio do Saco Basin with the greatest green area coverage (76%) is located within the boundary of Quilombo de Santa Justina/Santa Izabel. In this geographical area, in addition to the Atlantic Forest, there is also a mangrove in good conservation conditions. In addition to bibliographical, documentary and secondary data surveys, the research will seek to investigate the environmental perception of Quilombo residents based on the application of a semi-structured questionnaire. This questionnaire was debated with local leaders and after adjustments, inserted and modeled in the Vicon SAGA program, which allows georeferencing and later the application of queries by spatial filter.