Resource Flows, Uses and Populations Territorial Attachments: The Case of the Oyapock Watershed (French Guiana, Amapá State of Brazil)

Mehdi Saqalli, Cristian Rojas Cifuentes, Eric Maire (), Mariana Janaína dos Santos Alves, Rafael Costa Santo, Doryan Kaced, Benoît Gaudou and Anne-Emmanuelle Fiamor
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Mehdi Saqalli: GEODE UMR 5602 CNRS (Géographie de l’Environnement), University of Toulouse, F-31000 Toulouse, France
Cristian Rojas Cifuentes: UNEP (United Nations Environment Program), Bogota, Colombia
Eric Maire: LIVE UMR 7362 CNRS (Laboratoire Images Ville Environnement), University of Strasbourg, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
Mariana Janaína dos Santos Alves: UNIFAP Oiapoque, Universidade Federal do Amapá, Oiapoque 68903-419, Brazil
Rafael Costa Santo: UNIFAP Oiapoque, Universidade Federal do Amapá, Oiapoque 68903-419, Brazil
Doryan Kaced: IRIT (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse), Université Toulouse 1 Capitole-Toulouse, F-55052 Toulouse, France
Benoît Gaudou: IRIT (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse), Université Toulouse 1 Capitole-Toulouse, F-55052 Toulouse, France
Anne-Emmanuelle Fiamor: ENSFEA (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Formation de l’Enseignement Agricole), F-31320 Castanet-Tolosan, France

Land, 2023, vol. 12, issue 5, 1-12

Abstract: This article presents a stakeholders’ mapping exercise in 2017 and 2018 in the Oyapock watershed. Ninety-two maps were obtained covering almost the entire watershed. Results show that roads are becoming a more significant spatial reference to people, apart from the population minority living along the river. This latter polarizes itself into Brazilian colonization down and midstream, legal farmers on the Brazilian side, illegal gold diggers on the French Guiana side, and an Amerindian demographic growth upstream, both at the expense of the historical Saramaka/Creole area. Recent roads sticking each bank of the Oyapock River to their hinterland, Brazil, and France, respectively, like rubber bands, are separating them slowly, despite the bridge, primarily useless for now.

Keywords: perception-based regional mapping (PBRM); Amapá State & French Guiana; Amazonia; Oyapock watershed; perception (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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