%0 Journal Article
%T Between the sea and the land: the livelihood of estuarine people in southeastern Brazil
%A anazaki
%A Natalia
%A Castro
%A Fabio de
%A Oliveira
%A Vivian Gladys
%A Peroni
%A Nivaldo
%J Ambiente & Sociedade
%D 2007
%I ANPPAS - UNICAMP
%R 10.1590/S1414-753X2007000100008
%X the central focus of this study is to characterize and compare the livelihood strategies of two coastal communities from the estuarine region of ribeira valley (s£żo paulo state, southeastern brazil), analyzing the interplay among four economic activities: small-scale agriculture, fishing, tourism-related jobs, and extraction of non-timber vegetal resources. the local people of these communities are mostly cai£żara, the native inhabitants of southeastern brazilian coast, in an atlantic forest area. the miscegenation of amerindians, european colonizers, and african brazilians gave rise to the cai£żara people, whose subsistence was originally based on small-scale itinerant agriculture, small-scale fishery, and some extraction of forest products. their livelihoods activities changed through time: agricultural practices were gradually abandoned, while fishing grew in importance. recently, tourism-related jobs and the extraction of non-timber vegetal resources acquired a key role in the estuarine cai£żara livelihood. after an historical overview, we focus our analysis on the local factors and external pressures affecting the combination of these activities.
%K fisheries
%K use of natural resources
%K atlantic forest
%K conservation
%K human ecology.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1414-753X2007000100008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en