PARTICIPATORY MAPPING AS AN ANALYSIS TOOL FOR SPACES AFFECTED BY NATURAL PHENOMENA IN AGRICULTURAL AREAS, ATACAMA

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4215/rm2019.e18016

Keywords:

Participatory Mapping, Atacama Desert, Agriculture, systematization, collective memory

Abstract

This article aims to validate the participatory mapping (PM) as an analysis technique able to study agricultural areas in the Atacama Desert. These agricultural areas are confined to the valley bottoms of narrow and steep characteristics. This tool is used as a method to represent these areas through systematization,  interpretation and transmission of spatial information. The data collected are from Laonzana community, representative of the resistances of agricultural villages. These regions have suffered reductions in their productive areas, caused by natural phenomena, not being recovered for damages, the elderly population and the low number of farmers in recent decades. This study validated PM techniques, identifying numerous abandoned agricultural areas and others missing. This information is represented in thematic maps, as a result that rescues information from the collective memory, generating temporal comparisons of changes in agricultural areas.

Keywords: Participatory Mapping, Atacama Desert, Agriculture, control panels, collective memory.

Author Biographies

  • Mauricio Andrés González Pacheco, Professor Universidade de Tarapacá, Tarapacá, Chile.

    Geógrafo de la Universidad de Tarapacá (Chile). Licenciado en Ciencias Históricas y Geográficas por la Universidad de Tarapacá (Chile). Licenciado en Gestión Ambiental por la Universidad Católica del Norte (Chile). Master en Ciencias Ambientales por el Programa de Pós-Graduação em Modelagem em Ciências da Terra e do Ambiente (PPGM) de la Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS - Brasil)). Profesor del Departamento de Ciencias Históricas y Geográficas de la Universidad de Tarapacá (Arica-Chile).

  • Rosangela Leal Santos, Programa de Pós-graduação em Modelagem em Ciências da Terra e do Ambiente - Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana

    Possui graduação em Licenciatura em Geografia pela Universidade Católica do Salvador (1985), Mestrado em Geociencias pela Universidade Federal da Bahia (1992) e doutorado em Engenharia de Transportes pela Universidade de São Paulo (2005). Atualmente é professora adjunta da Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana e Coordenadora da Estação Climatológica.

  • Alejandro Tapia Tosetti, Departamento de Ciencias Históricas y Geográficas - Universidad de Tarapacá

    Masgíster en Geografía, mención en Recursos Territoriales de la Universidad de Chile. Geógrafo de la Universidad de Chile. Academico del Departamento de Ciencias Historicas y Geograficas de la Universidad de Tarapacá.

  • Luciel Passos de Oliveira, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador (BA), Brasil

    Licenciado e bacharel em geografia, mestre em ciências ambientais pela universidade estadual de feira de Santana, doutorando em geografia  no instituto de geociências da universidade federal da Bahia. Professor substituto na Faculdade de Educação da Universidade Federal da Bahia.

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2019-09-03

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Vol. 18 (2019)

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