Fishing as survival strategy of urban resident of small cities at the delta of Amazon River
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2016
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The economy of floodplain is based mainly on fishing, logging, ranching and agriculture. Its vegetation of flooded forests and weeds in lakes provide food and shelter for aquatic and terrestrial life, as well as natural pastures. There, in the lowland areas, survive about 1.5 million inhabitants, known as riparian zone, making use of its resources. Some of the residents living in urban areas, especially in floodplain sites, have a rural way of life due to the practice of extraction, featuring the country in urban and vice versa. Several Amazonian cities are located in the forest, located along of large rivers and drained by numerous small streams. In the city of Ponta de Pedras, located in the Marajó Island, in the Amazon Delta region, a riverside rural population triggered the Local Authorities in order to occupy a space in the city, because their children needed to have access to school and families also needed access to basic infrastructure (water, electricity and sewerage). More than a third of the urban area of the city of Ponta de Pedras sits on floodplain area bordering the river Armazém and Marajo-Açu River. This place is known popularly by Carnapijó neighborhood, however, this information is not official but a name made by the residents through a popular consensus. The Carnapijó neighborhood has riverside town characteristics more intensively, for instance its streets connected to the river (ending or going against it), than other places of the city. This place has its own dynamics connected to the Amazon region’s, influenced by tide dynamic. The urban occupation of this neighborhood has grown over the years; however, the characteristics of the local residents have also changed, little, but changed. Earlier people who were living there were fishermen.
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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