THESIS AND DISSERTATIONS

Units of Conservation and organizations of traditional populations in South-Amapá: problems, tendencies and perspectives

José Bittencourt da Silva. [e-mail]. Doctoral Thesis Pos-Graduation Program in Sustainable Development in the Humid Tropics Nucleus of High Studies of the Amazon Federal University of Pará Belém (PA) – Brazil 2007

The Units of Conservation of Sustainable Use (UC) are territorial spaces that belong to the public power and, at the same time, shelter traditional populations. Their purpose is to achieve human development, through the conjugation of the environment preservation and the sustainable use of the forest renewable resources. In the south of Amapá State, two UC were instituted and both present problems. The community and economic organizing of these areas has been proposed as viable alternatives concerning the process of resolution of the local demands. But actual organizational structure is also presenting problems. The reason can be found in the social values, which have individualistic and clientelistic origin, and are inherited of a haberdashery despotic system. Such interactions are being replicated in the communitarian and organizational structure, particularly in the elites produced among the traditional population. These past behaviors have been reproduced in the relationship of commanded people and the local leaderships, as well as next to the political agents that are involved in the social and economic processes.

Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  27 Aug 2010
• Date of issue
  Dec 2008