Serviços ecossistêmicos na comunidade de Caetanos de Cima/CE: uma abordagem relacional entre sociedade e natureza

Abstract

The study presented throughout this work aimed toidentification of existing ecosystem services in the categories - provision and cultural, provided in the community of Caetanos de Cima, Amontada / CE. Ecosystem services (ES) can be conceptualized as services provided by nature free of charge, which can occur directly or indirectly for human well-being. Based on the identification of these SE, the use of secondary data and semi-structured interviews that consisted of the participation of three key informants, due to the atypical pandemic situation that we find ourselves in, the interview took place through the WhatsApp application.This identification was made based on the Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services - CICES, which consists of a more detailed description of the ES, it is organized in 'section', 'division', 'group' and 'class', which consequently the classification will become more specific. The results obtained from the identification were organized according to the CICES methodology, being described in the category of provision in the divisions - nutritional, materials and energy, in which the nutritional corresponds to plant and animal biomass, in materials - which consists of the materials of plants and animals and energy - energy source based on plants and animals, in the cultural section they were divided into spiritual and symbolic interactions with the ecosystem and physical and intellectual interactions with the ecosystem.