Objectives and Goals


>The main objective of this work is to characterize the socio-economic profile of rubber tappers of the Tejo River Basin, AC, allowing an evaluation of its pr oduction means and of the current situation of this population. Also to obtain i nformation for environmental monitoring in agricultural and cattle raising areas of the tropical rainforest.

In the initial planning phase of this research, this objective was subdivided in three methodologic different groups:
one related mainly to spatial data and its cartography; the second related to data collection, treatment and numerical data expression and finally an attempt to integrate both parameters to specializ e some of the variables sampled in the field.

For each group, secondary goals were identified and shown below:

A - Cartographic data

- To cartography the rubber tapper's "colocações" and the hydro graphic network of the Tejo River Basin in the 1/100.000 scale, identifying its respective nomenclatures;

- To delimit and map homogeneous unities of vegetation of the studied areas in the scale 1/100.000;

B - Numeric Data

- to define a sampling plan to collect, in a field mission, data related to ag roecology and socio-economy at the Tejo River Basin;

- to make statistical treatments to characterize the local inhabitant, the ava ilable socio-economic and natural resources, as well as the production forms tha t exist in the study area.


Publications


DORADO, A.; COUTINHO, A. & MIRANDA, E. Estructuración de una base de datos informatizados sobre recursos naturales para el Estado del Acre, Brasil apoyado en sistema de información geográfico. Proceedings... 1º Congreso Latinoamericano de Ecología. Anais. Montevideo, 10 a 17 de dezembro de 1989. Anales, CIPFE, Montevideu, p 128 (1989).

MIRANDA, E. E. de; BATISTELLA, M.; COUTINHO, A. C. & DORADO, A. J. Ecological delimitation of the first extractivist reserve in the amazon forest, Acre-Brazil. Proceedings... International Symposyum Agroecology and Conservation Issues in Temperate and Tropical Regions. Padova-Italy, September 26-29, 1990. Abstract. Department of Biology and College of Agriculture-University of Padova, p. 120 (1990).

MIRANDA, E. E de; COUTINHO, A. C; DORADO, A. J. & BATISTELLA, M. Unidades de vegetação da bacia do rio Tejo. Campinas, Embrapa-NMA, 1989. Esc. 1:100.000.

___________________. Colocações de seringueiros na bacia do rio Tejo. Campinas, Embrapa-NMA, 1989. Esc. 1:100.000.

___________________. Perfil sócio-econômico dos seringueiros da bacia do rio Tejo (AC). Proceedings... 43ª Reunião da SBPC. Anais. São Paulo, SBPC, 1992. p 655.

___________________. Reserva extrativista e preservação ecológica no Acre. Proceedings... 42ª Reunião Anual da Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência. Porto Alegre, julho 1990. Anais, SBPC, p. 357-58 (1990).

MIRANDA, E. E. de; MANTOVANI, L. E.; MIRANDA, J. R.; COUTINHO, A. C.; DORADO, A. J. & BATISTELLA, M. Proposta de uma reserva extrativista na região do rio Tejo. In: Procuradoria Geral da República; Inquérito Civil Nº 1 Acre. Relatório Final. Brasília, Procuradoria Geral da República, 1989. p 13-26.