BIJAGOS ARCHIPELAGO: Impacts and challenges for environmental sustainability
Journal: InterEspaço: Revista de Geografia e Interdisciplinaridade (Vol.2, No. 5)Publication Date: 2016-11-19
Authors : João Paulo Madeira;
Page : 291-305
Keywords : Natural Resources; Sustainability; Potentials; Vulnerabilities.;
Abstract
The Archipelago of Bijagos in Guinea-Bissau is currently subject to numerous external impacts affecting their secular equilibrium. The islands were never contemplated by the colonial development, with the exception of two modest ports in Bubaque and Bolama. The latter place was the capital of the country from 1913 to 1941. The archipelago has attracted increasing interest on the part of economic agents, most of which are incompatible with the guarantee of sustainable development. There has been a general impoverishment as regards the preservation of marine resources, particularly with regard to the internal demographic pressure from a population that has doubled since 1981 and due to other external factors related to the neighboring and subsequent migration depletion of resources not renewable. The article analyzes the main vulnerabilities that the archipelago is currently facing and how natural resources have been preserved. The article follows an interdisciplinary approach between different areas of knowledge especially in projects involving both different academic fields (biology, ecology, geography, anthropology and history), for the non-scientific practices that include actors and institutions.
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