Rufina Beach and Sustainable
Development: The Role of Women
in Mucajaí, RR, Brazil
Ana Sibelonia Saldanha Veras , Diogo Guedes Vidal ,
Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis , and Nelson Azevedo Barros
1 Introduction
Due to its immense forest, geomorphology, landscape, drainage of rivers and their
tributaries, the volume of freshwater and the relevance of all in the life of the populations, the Amazon region has a significant importance for the environmental balance
of the world (Divino and Mc Alleer 2009; Fechine 2008). In addition to environmental wealth, there is a cultural diversity such as rubber tappers, chestnut trees,
farmers, ranchers, rural workers, who, living in a remote area, far from contemporary living standards and dominated by technology, seek to live a life within a
specific reality (Rodrigues et al. 2015; Zanetti et al. 2018), arousing the interest of
many to know this region. In this territory, Legal Amazon represents 60% of the
land, which includes heterogeneous environments and various forms of land use of
citizens who inhabit the states of Acre, Amazonas, Amapá, northern Mato Grosso,
Pará, Tocantins, Rondonia, Roraima part of Maranhão.
Located in the Amazon, the state of Roraima has a territorial extension of
224,273.831 km
2 with 605.761 inhabitants (IBGE 2019), corresponding to a low
population density of 2.7 inhabitants/km
2 . This portion represents only 0.0026%
A. S. S. Veras (B)
University Fernando Pessoa (UFP), Praça 9 de Abril 349, 4249-004 Porto, Portugal
e-mail: 39347@ufp.edu.pt
D. G. Vidal · M. A. P. Dinis · N. A. Barros
UFP Energy, Environment and Health Research Unit (FP-ENAS), University Fernando Pessoa
(UFP), Praça 9 de Abril 349, 4249-004 Porto, Portugal
e-mail: diogoguedesvidal@hotmail.com
M. A. P. Dinis
e-mail: madinis@ufp.edu.pt
N. A. Barros
e-mail: nelson@ufp.edu.pt
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Integrating Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development,
World Sustainability Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59975-1_24
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Development: The Role of Women
in Mucajaí, RR, Brazil
Ana Sibelonia Saldanha Veras , Diogo Guedes Vidal ,
Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis , and Nelson Azevedo Barros
1 Introduction
Due to its immense forest, geomorphology, landscape, drainage of rivers and their
tributaries, the volume of freshwater and the relevance of all in the life of the populations, the Amazon region has a significant importance for the environmental balance
of the world (Divino and Mc Alleer 2009; Fechine 2008). In addition to environmental wealth, there is a cultural diversity such as rubber tappers, chestnut trees,
farmers, ranchers, rural workers, who, living in a remote area, far from contemporary living standards and dominated by technology, seek to live a life within a
specific reality (Rodrigues et al. 2015; Zanetti et al. 2018), arousing the interest of
many to know this region. In this territory, Legal Amazon represents 60% of the
land, which includes heterogeneous environments and various forms of land use of
citizens who inhabit the states of Acre, Amazonas, Amapá, northern Mato Grosso,
Pará, Tocantins, Rondonia, Roraima part of Maranhão.
Located in the Amazon, the state of Roraima has a territorial extension of
224,273.831 km
2 with 605.761 inhabitants (IBGE 2019), corresponding to a low
population density of 2.7 inhabitants/km
2 . This portion represents only 0.0026%
A. S. S. Veras (B)
University Fernando Pessoa (UFP), Praça 9 de Abril 349, 4249-004 Porto, Portugal
e-mail: 39347@ufp.edu.pt
D. G. Vidal · M. A. P. Dinis · N. A. Barros
UFP Energy, Environment and Health Research Unit (FP-ENAS), University Fernando Pessoa
(UFP), Praça 9 de Abril 349, 4249-004 Porto, Portugal
e-mail: diogoguedesvidal@hotmail.com
M. A. P. Dinis
e-mail: madinis@ufp.edu.pt
N. A. Barros
e-mail: nelson@ufp.edu.pt
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Integrating Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development,
World Sustainability Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59975-1_24
365