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guidance for small businesses, will boost the entire geotourism production chain,
thus contributing to the overall sustainable development.
In terms of future research, it is important to have in consideration that this activity
is conducted by women that have a powerful connection with the environment, thus
a more in deep research on the women’s role in the leadership of entrepreneurship
activities should be carried out. These activities are related with the destination of
non-biodegradable waste, such as plastics generated by the activities and by the
community’s own residents, that currently happens in a fragmented and isolated
way. Future research should also integrate major issues, addressing the environmental impacts of such activities, in order to develop sustainable strategies based
in social responsibility, along with a sociographic study of these women and their
understanding about sustainability in living environment. Being this the last decade
to achieve the sustainable development goals, geotourism must be seen as a socially
responsible way to balance wanderlust and preservation of fragile areas such as in
Mucajaí, RR, Brazil.
Acknowledgements Special thanks to SEMCET- Municipal Secretariat of Culture, Sport and
Tourism of Mucaja, RR, Brazil for the information provided. Researchers Nelson Barros, Alzira
Dinis and Diogo Guedes Vidal thank support from the UFP Energy, Environment and Health
Research Unit (FP-ENAS). These researchers were also funded by the Portuguese Science and
Technology Foundation (FCT), under the UID/MULTI/04546/2019 project.
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guidance for small businesses, will boost the entire geotourism production chain,
thus contributing to the overall sustainable development.
In terms of future research, it is important to have in consideration that this activity
is conducted by women that have a powerful connection with the environment, thus
a more in deep research on the women’s role in the leadership of entrepreneurship
activities should be carried out. These activities are related with the destination of
non-biodegradable waste, such as plastics generated by the activities and by the
community’s own residents, that currently happens in a fragmented and isolated
way. Future research should also integrate major issues, addressing the environmental impacts of such activities, in order to develop sustainable strategies based
in social responsibility, along with a sociographic study of these women and their
understanding about sustainability in living environment. Being this the last decade
to achieve the sustainable development goals, geotourism must be seen as a socially
responsible way to balance wanderlust and preservation of fragile areas such as in
Mucajaí, RR, Brazil.
Acknowledgements Special thanks to SEMCET- Municipal Secretariat of Culture, Sport and
Tourism of Mucaja, RR, Brazil for the information provided. Researchers Nelson Barros, Alzira
Dinis and Diogo Guedes Vidal thank support from the UFP Energy, Environment and Health
Research Unit (FP-ENAS). These researchers were also funded by the Portuguese Science and
Technology Foundation (FCT), under the UID/MULTI/04546/2019 project.
References
Almudi T (2019) Water up to our necks: learning and responses to hydroclimatic variability
in Brazilian Amazon floodplain communities. Master Thesis. Faculty of Graduate Studies of
University of Manitoba, Canada
Barbosa RI (1997) Distribuição das chuvas em Roraima [Rain distribution in Roraima]. In: Barbosa
RI, Ferreira EJG, Castellón EG (eds) Homem, ambiente e ecologia no Estado de Roraima. Manaus,
INPA, pp 325–335
Bereti´ c N, Dukanovi´ c Z, Cecchini A (2019) Geotourism as development tool of the geo-mining
park in Sardinia. Geoheritage 11:1689–1704
BNDES (2010) Amazônia em debate: oportunidades, desafios e soluções [Amazon in debate: opportunities, challenges and solutions]. Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social, Rio
de Janeiro
Brandão GS (2019) Potencial geoturístico do município de Caraá: inventário dos sítios de geodiversidade como subsídio para o desenvolvimento do geoturismo [Geotouristic potential of the
municipality of Caraá: inventory. Geodiversity sites as a subsidy for geotourism development].
Master Thesis. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Porto Alegre-RS
Butler RW (1999) Sustainable tourism: a state-of-the-art review. Tourism Geogr 1:7–25
Bühler N, Souza MO (2011) O empoderamento das Mulheres envolvidas no roteiro caminhos
de Pedra [The empowerment of women involved in the script stone paths]. Master Thesis.
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Santo Antônio da patrulha
Dogra J (2019) Book review: contemporary studies in environment and tourism. Anatolia 30:158–
159
Divino JA, McAleer M (2009) Modelling sustainable international tourism demand to the Brazilian
Amazon. Environ Model Softw 24:1411–1419