Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:52:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CarlosCGD.pdf: 1489111 bytes, checksum: 001f763e52671d83a36d43eff64141cc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-05-19 / The objective of this study was to investigate the environmental perception of: People with common-sense knowledge on the desertification process in RN. People with scientific knowledge on the desertification process in RN. Focal points in the combat at desertification of the RN and public ministery representant with actions in interinstitutional articulations promoter (and/or relative actions) at the desertification process in the RN. The research was carried in the city of Natal-RN and in two small cities of the Serid? region (RN): Caic? and Currais Novos. The research carried, is classified as exploratory and 22 people were interviewed. The research includes: The propension/intensity of the desertification in the RN and in the Serid? region; Evaluation of the knowledge of those interviewed, concerning the subject desertification ; Problems in order to combat desertification; Causes of desertification; The profile of the interviewed. The results of this present study indicate that the a desertification process is more agressive in the Serid? region than in the state of RN, being the two following: the absence of preocupation of the affected population with the process and the escarcity of governamental recurses, indicates how problems greather in the combat to the phenomen. Decreasing of produtivity in the agriculture and increasing of the migration to the urbans centers have been the main consequences of the process, that have at water scarcity, deforestation and extraction of argil (being this, regional factor), relevant variables in the influence to the surgiment of the desertification process of the RN / O objetivo deste trabalho foi investigar a percep??o ambiental de: Detentores de conhecimento popular acerca do processo de desertifica??o no RN. Detentores de conhecimento cient?fico acerca do processo de desertifica??o no RN. Pontos focais no combate ? desertifica??o do RN e representante do minist?rio p?blico que atuasse na promo??o de articula??o interinstitucional (e/ou a??es relacionadas) ao processo de desertifica??o no RN. A pesquisa foi realizada em Natal-RN e em dois munic?pios da regi?o do Serid? (RN): Caic? e Currais Novos. A pesquisa realizada, que ? enquadrada como explorat?ria, contou com 22 pesquisados e abordou: A propens?o/intensidade da desertifica??o no RN e no Serid?; Avalia??o do conhecimento do pesquisado, acerca do assunto desertifica??o ; Problemas no combate ? desertifica??o; Causas da desertifica??o; Perfil dos pesquisados. Os resultados obtidos apontam que a desertifica??o ? mais grave na regi?o do Serid? que no Estado como um todo, sendo a falta de preocupa??o da popula??o afetada pelo processo e a escassez de recursos governamentais, indicadas como principais problemas no combate ao fen?meno. Perda de produtividade agr?cola e eleva??o da migra??o para os centros urbanos evidenciaram-se como as principais conseq??ncias do processo, que tem na escassez de ?gua, no desmatamento e na retirada de argila (sendo esse ?ltimo, fator regional), vari?veis de destacada import?ncia na influ?ncia ao surgimento do processo de desertifica??o do RN