Cariri Paraibano: dos serviços ecossistêmicos e da geodiversidade às implicações para um planejamento ambiental

Abstract

This work deals with a reading of Ecosystem Services and Geodiversity, inserting the environmental impacts in the context of studies on nature and anthropic action for an area in the process of recognition as Geopark Cariri in semi-arid Paraibano. In this context, it describes the Ecosystem Services, Geodiversity and Environmental Impacts on natural resources, and can contribute to a thinking of public policies on the use and sustainable occupation of Cariri Paraibano, specifically in the area to be produced a Geopark. The methodological procedures for this research were based on tools used by international mechanisms of reading, writing and mapping of Ecosystem Services and Geodiversity to compose a worldwide database. In this case, the CICES table was used, adding the geodiversity services, as well as an adaptation of the Environmental Impact Matrix (Leopold Matrix) to evaluate the ecosystem services and geodiversity with the natural resources accounted for and mapped at the site studied. The first chapter highlighted the mapping of Ecosystem Services and Geodiversity in the studied region of Cariri Paraibano. In the second chapter the ecosystem services and geodiversity were accounted for and recorded in the CICES Table V5.1). The third chapter highlights the Impact Matrix for Ecosystem Services and Geodiversity. The data obtained, in general, show that for the Cariri Paraibano region, the rocky outcrops, especially the "lajedos", are considered the main elements that guarantee the quality of life and human well-being in the locality. This, for its direct connection with the production of ecosystem services and geodiversity. Thus, it is necessary an urgent consideration of these resources as an element contributing to the economy and culture in the landscape of the semi-arid, in general, and Cariri Paraiba specifically.