Efeitos da estiagem na dinâmica social e econômica da comunidade do Sitio Pilões, Zona Rural de São João do Rio do Peixe - PB.

Abstract

The present work emerges as a possibility of understanding the relationship between drought and its consequences for the life of rural communities. That way, This research seeks to analyze how the impacts of drought influence the social and economic dynamics of the Sitio Pilões community, in view of the daily coexistence of its residents with the northeastern semiarid and its specificities. Characterize the impacts of drought on the development of agriculture, livestock and fishing practices; identify the types of public policies adopted to reduce the effects of drought and the strategies used by the inhabitants to circumvent this scenario; as well as highlighting practices that can be adopted to minimize drought damage, interpretation of the relationship between the natural and social media. In this perspective, it was thus defined as the method to be performed the deductive approach, starting from the general analysis to and the monographic procedure, in order to examine the subject and to observe the factors that influence it. For this, it was necessary the literary contribution from the consultation before some scholars in the field. It is worth mentioning the consultation of documents diverse legislative, extremely important the understanding of the exposed in the literature. The The research results showed the extreme importance of Açude Pilões for the development of the social and economic dynamics of the community, especially regarding refers to the generation of employment and income of rural families.