Voices of Rio Jari Program: a scientific contribution to the socio-environmental public management of Laranjal do Jari-AP/Brazil

Abstract

The natural phenomenon that promoted approximately four months of flooding in 2022 in the communities and municipalities inserted in the western Brazilian Amazon, located on the banks of the Rio Jari in Amapá, was the motivating factor for the elaboration of a Research Program, whose general objective is to map socio-environmental perceptive indicators in the interdisciplinary perspective from the interview applied to residents of Antiga Usina street, located on the right bank of the Rio Jari in the municipality of Laranjal do Jari, with registration in the ethics committee CAEE 59933922.3.0000.0211. In this aspect, this article starts from the premise that the landscape as a result of natural and anthropogenic interactions is a historical and geographical product to be considered in public policies, seeking to contextualize public and available information on the socio-environmental problem and to describe the contributions that the indicators can bring to public policies mapped by the Program to the municipal public administration. Methodologically, it is a case study with bibliographic, documentary and field research, originally with photographic records for analysis of the impact on the landscape that contributes to the proposal of indicators to be pointed out in the Program, starting with the pre-flood observation and continuing through Ex-post-facto research. As an initial result, there is the fact that the socio-environmental impact in the study area does not come only from the flood that occurred in 2022, but from the absence of some elements of basic sanitation such as the reception and treatment of sewage, adequate destination of solid waste and the precarious structure of stilts. Although they are part of history, they need more impervious and safer constructions for accessibility. It should also be noted that the data sought by the Voices of Rio Jari Program will provide a diagnosis not carried out by any research group yet.