ECOSYSTEM SERVICES OF LOTIC WATERS AND ENVIRONMENTAL POSSIBILISMS FOR THE SOCIAL USE OF WATER RESOURCES UNDER THE READING OF ETNOECODESIGN

Abstract

The human environmental knowledge that is established with the relationship between social cultural groups and ecosystems is competent to transform natural resources into products and services that can be used for the daily subsistence and the maintenance of cultures with material elements and immaterials of different societies. Lotic water environments enable environmental services and products: water consumption, local microclimate, food, nutrients for agriculture, mobility, energy, landscape (aesthetic) and leisure that need to be classified according to the type of service and product - regulation, support, production and cultural so that one can think of a possible sustainability that answers the questions of expression local culture, connectivity between humans and ecosystems and the possible harms that cultures can generate in ecosystems. The aim is to test an ethnoecodesign tool to assess environmental services. Regarding Material and Methods, the methodology for Ecodesign de Back (1983) was used, which includes aspects of sustainable development as a systematization for reading systems and subsystems. This paper showed that the human connectivity and ecosystem was hampered by the intense cultural expression and its aggravations to the lotic environment, contributing to create non anthropological places.