This book is the result of my Master's dissertation in Development and Environment by UFRN in 2012, guided by Professor Dr. Cimone Rozendo of the Laboratory of Rural Studies. The theoretical basis that supported the dissertation was the critical social theory for human and political emancipation, with a major focus on the relationship between the ecology of knowledge and the construction of a broader environmental and urban policy and culture of popular participation in the semi-arid Potiguar.