Mudanças climáticas e a ciência cidadã: uma análise na comunidade indígena potiguara da Paraíba

Abstract

Climate change needs to be analyzed in a transdisciplinary way based on local and scientific and traditional and local knowledge, expanding data collection at the local level. This research seeks to understand the perceptions, from the perspective of Potiguara Indigenous people, and the adaptive strategies adopted in relation to climate change and social and environmental changes in their territory. To achieve this, the research was planned in two stages: 1st) Social cartography, carried out with the Potiguara communities of the Tramataia, Camurupim and Alto do Tambá villages on the north of the coast of Paraíba; and 2nd) Semi-structured interviews, through a strategy based on citizen science, with a georeferenced form with closed questions and another questionnaire with open questions inserted into the free Kobocollect application. As a result of the social cartography, 30 points of positive, negative and attention changes were identified, 5 in the Tramataia village, 14 in the Camurupim village and 11 in the Alto do Tambá village. As for perception, the sample considered was 23 interviewees, of which 19 have been in the village since they were born, 18 consider that climate change is occurring rapidly, and 17 expressed concerns, a concern that ranges from reasonable to very great. 39 indicators of climate change impacts perceived by the traditional community were also identified, as well as only 5 adaptive strategies adopted by the Potiguara in the face of the effects of climate change. This research sought to understand how the Potiguara have observed changes in the territory, as well as their adaptation strategies to climate impacts, contributing to studies that support the Potiguara Territorial and Environmental Management of the Potiguara Indigenous territory.