Banca de DEFESA: JOSÉ APARECIDO MACEDO

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : JOSÉ APARECIDO MACEDO
DATA : 17/12/2025
HORA: 15:00
LOCAL: Profágua Online e presencial
TÍTULO:
PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

participatory restoration, planting seedlings, timeline, permanent preservation area, wetlands

PÁGINAS: 70
GRANDE ÁREA: Outra
ÁREA: Ciências Ambientais
RESUMO:

This work emerges from the experience and trajectory of José Aparecido Macedo, who has decades of experience in ecological restoration in the southwestern region of Mato Grosso, especially in the headwaters of the Northern Pantanal. The objective is to document and analyze the author's work as a restoration agent, emphasizing his practices and applied knowledge, developed and refined throughout his involvement in the region. The work is based on the perspective of resistance, grounded in the constant planting of native trees, which represents hope for a better environmental future, capable of transforming degraded areas into living, resilient, and functionally integrated ecosystems. It should be noted that ecological restoration is understood here not only as vegetation recovery, but also as the recovery of ecosystem services, such as water infiltration into the soil, evapotranspiration regulation, water recharge, and maintenance of the hydrological cycle. The study covers the Jauru and Cabaçal river basins. The research is qualitative in nature, using the Experience Report (RE) as its methodology. To construct it, a timeline was developed covering 35 years, from the author's arrival in Mato Grosso, encompassing difficulties, environmental perceptions, first actions, successes, significant encounters, and results achieved.  Data processing was based on content analysis, focusing on learning from experiences and their socio-environmental impacts. His experience as a family farmer was decisive for his first steps in ecological restoration, which began in 1983 in Reserva do Cabaçal, MT. The author's restlessness and search for knowledge led him to obtain technical and academic qualifications, expanding his network of partners and his reach. Currently, this experience extends to the entire southwestern region of Mato Grosso, the result of several partnerships with public entities and non-governmental organizations. Research of this nature highlights the importance of initiatives based on traditional knowledge and interaction with local ecosystems, valuing the leading role of communities and social agents. The report reaffirms the trajectory by which the author became a reference in planting as a fundamental act to positively intervene in the water cycle. José Aparecido Macedo's work, combining local knowledge, daily practice, academic training, and the belief that the quality of nature reflects on the quality of life, has become a valuable model of how participatory ecological restoration contributes to reducing the impacts of deforestation, promoting ecosystem resilience and territorial sustainability.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 48690002 - SOLANGE KIMIE IKEDA CASTRILLON
Interno - 118188003 - ERNANDES SOBREIRA OLIVEIRA JUNIOR
Interna - 956.474.908-59 - FATIMA APARECIDA DA SILVA IOCCA -
Externo à Instituição - FERNANDO FERREIRA DE MORAIS - UFPB