Conflitos Fundiários no Parque Estadual do Rio Negro Setor Sul

Abstract

This dissertation refers to conflicts around the (re) configuration of the territorial limits of the Rio Negro State Park-South Sector. The land occupation in the area where the Park is located indicates that the battle for territorial (re) configuration or changes to other less restrictive protection categories are far from reaching a conclusion. Social, economic and political conflicts are rooted since the creation of this area of integral protection contested even now, along with others, for not taking the resident population into consideration. Thus the main objective of this study was to map the different administrative territorial units currently established in the area of the Rio Negro State Park South Sector, describing the different types of pressure, as well as the conflicts generated by the various forms of land and natural resource uses, to propose alternatives to minimize the identified conflicts. Thus, we mapped the main stakeholders involved, as well as the proposed changes planned for the region. Researching official documents, mapping of relevant stakeholders involved in the environmental and sociopolitical context, allowed a description of the socio-environmental conflicts. When spatialized, these conflicts can be managed, mostly because of their institutional nature, generated from a series of decisions that have created a true environmental and institutional imbroglio. Four scenarios of institutional action, including modifiers of territorial boundaries and management regimes, investigated viable alternatives with best environmental and social results to help in the management of the installed territorial disputes. The impact detected in the current analysis is approximately over 75% of the focal territory, either by institutional indefinition or direct human interference on natural resources.