Procedimentos de criação e funcionamento dos conselhos gestores das Unidades de Conservação Estaduais no Amazonas

Abstract

The procedures for the creation and operation of 25 management councils of Conservation Units (CUs) of the State of Amazonas, until now legally constituted, were analyzed. The current administrative practices are described and evaluated in the different phases of creation and operation of the management councils: creation, operation, evaluation and renovation. The following research methodologies were adopted: documentary research with the reading, identification and interpretation of legal data, for example, administrative rules in the federal and state spheres, in the creation and operation of the CUs’ councils, Action research and participant research in the forms of dialogue workshop and seminar with the group of subjects with experience in the subject. The dialogue workshop presented the results of the documentary research that served as the basis for the discussion and reflection of the group of experts on the "cycle of existence of the management councils of the UC", results of the workshop served as a subsidy for the preparation of the proposal of the draft Instrument of legal basis. In the seminar, the proposal of the normative instruction draft was presented and debated to discipline, norms and procedures for the creation of the management councils of the CU at the state level. The identification of the advances and deficiencies of these procedures served as a basis for the participatory construction of a normative instrument that seeks to improve the management body's conduct in the conduct of these councils. As a synthesis of these results and product applicable to the management of protected areas, a draft legal instrument is presented, which aims to improve the processes of creation and operation of the management councils of the state CUs.