Abstract:Risk perception is one of the pillars of water management. This text proposes to reflect on the meanings of risk in the life experiences of the fishermen of the Lower São Francisco River, in a scenario of increasing environmental degradation. A phenomenological approach and method were used, whose object are the meanings attributed to the lived experience. The fishermen were interviewed in the municipalities of Piaçabuçu, Alagoas, and Canindé de São Francisco and Propriá, in Sergipe. Three essential structures… Show more
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