Water resources and conversation practices with the semiarid in Aracatiaçu, Sobral-CE, Brazil

Abstract

The concept of nature historically apprehended is directly related to the mode of interaction between society and nature in a given space-time context, under certain geomorphoclimatic, political, social and philosophical conditions. In this perspective, the present work aims to present a synthesis of the results of the empirical research carried out in the semi-arid sertaneja surface of Aracatiaçu, Sobral-CE, from March 2017 to February 2019, presented to the examining board of the Academic Master in Geography, from the State University of Vale do Acaraú, as a mandatory requirement for obtaining the Master's degree in Geography. In this study, we sought to understand the form of conception and perception of nature by the sertanejo in the semi-arid environment of Aracatiaçu, district of Sobral-CE, having as a guiding axis the water resources and the practices of coexistence with the semi-arid region, whose space- temporal comprises two rural communities in the aforementioned Sobralense district, Lagoa da Cruz and São João, between the years 1920 to 2018.