Barragem Saulo Maia, Areia­PB: arena socioambiental, legislação e contexto histórico (2011­ 2020).

Abstract

Thinking about the resources available in the natural environment and the relationship between that environment and the society that surrounds it has been guided for centuries in the use and economic exploitation of such resources. In objection to environmentally predatory and eminently economistic human practices, several movements, theories and ideas emerged across the planet, among them the concept of ecosocioeconomy that sought to strongly question traditional forms of consumption and economic arrangements that exclude the preservation of the natural environment from human development. In this way,

the present research sought to answer the following question: What is the social- environmental importance of the Saulo Maia dam and its surroundings for the city

of Areia and region? In the search for answers, the research was structured in six parts, the first one was an analysis of the state of knowledge and an approach to the ecosocioeconomy and five more chapters. Chapter 1: entitled Saulo Maia Dam, Areia, Paraíba: between History, Disputes and the Need for an Environmental Approach; chapter; 2: Water Without Borders: The Saulo Maia Dam and Its Strategic Role in Supplying the Agreste Paraibano in 2017 and 2018; Chapter 3: Vegetation Coverage and Land Use Surrounding the Saulo Maia– Areia–Paraíba–Brazil Dam Chapter 4: Analysis of the Vegetation Coverage of the Saulo Maia Dam Between the Years 2011 to 2020: An Approach in the Light of Environmental Legislation and Ecosocioeconomy and the chapter 5: Analysis of the Water Blade of the Saulo Maia Dam Between the years 2011 to 2020 the Light of Social and Environmental Dimensions. In order to answer the problem question and achieve the objectives of each chapter, the bibliographic review, document analysis through laws and judicial processes and the making of maps, of vegetation, soil and water, made in the layout editor of QGIS . This research contributes, in an unprecedented way, to the incorporation of a socio­environmental, historical and legal approach to the object studied, as well as bringing georeferenced images to the construction of knowledge about the Dam and the municipality of Areia­PB. Thus, it is expected with this Thesis to provide the scientific community with information that will contribute to future research and that will motivate the public power and environmental agencies to use such knowledge in order to invest and preserve the ecosystem, social, economic and cultural wealth rethought in the space where the Saulo Maia Dam is located today.