The CORAL Project in Guanabara Bay: For an Almost Forgotten Peripheral Community

Nilo Serpa; Aline Santoro; Edgar Gravatá; Richard Brook Cathcart; Charles Finkl

The CORAL Project in Guanabara Bay: For an Almost Forgotten Peripheral Community

Nilo Serpa, Aline Santoro, Edgar Gravatá, Richard Brook Cathcart, Charles Finkl

Resumo

This article discusses some socioeconomic advantages of an environmental development project that goes by the acronym CORAL (Brazilian abbreviation for "Lacustrine Complex for Observation, Recreation and Administration"). The CORAL project features the potential recovery of peripheral fishing communities in Guanabara Bay. Better biological and coastal management of Guanabara Bay is required because this ecosystem has been degraded by untreated sewage and oil industries installed along its shores. The purpose of the CORAL project is to link its conceptual and architectural design to public policy that targets artisanal fishermen, who fear that their means of survival is increasingly threatened in an irreversible manner. The CORAL proposal arose due to the fact that there has been almost complete abandonment of this important littoral periphery, which is rarely mentioned or seriously considered in Rio's debates on social development.

Key words: Periphery, artisanal fishing, biological and coastal management, public policy.

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Este artigo apresenta o projeto de desenvolvimento social CORAL (Complexo de Observação, Recreação e Administração Lacustre) voltado à recuperação das comunidades pesqueiras periféricas da Baía de Guanabara e, simultaneamente, ao manejo biológico e costeiro desse corpo d’água degradado pelo esgoto sem tratamento e pelas indústrias petroleiras instaladas em suas margens. A ideia é vincular o conceito e o próprio projeto arquitetônico a uma política pública voltada aos pescadores artesanais, que veem seus meios de sobrevivência cada vez mais ameaçados de forma irreversível. A proposta surgiu em razão do abandono quase total da referida periferia, pouco mencionada nos debates cariocas sobre desenvolvimento social.

Palavras-chave: Periferia, pesca artesanal, gestão biológica e costeira, política pública.

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13926619

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