Gestão ambiental comunitária da pesca na Amazônia: estudo de caso do alto Purus

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2006

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The biggest challenge facing government bodies that pursue public policies on the environmental management of fisheries is to ensure sustainable conditions and develop new mechanisms of participatory management and regulation of access to and use of fishery resources. The liabilities associated to environmental policies are significant, especially with regard to the participation of fishers unions. The theme of this thesis is community development. It provides an institutional review of environmental management stakeholders, and it features a case study of community management of fishing activities and its consequences to sustainable development in the area of the Upper Purus River. This case study describes and evaluates the fishing activity cycle in the area and how fishing agreements are implemented in the floodplain lakes. The Upper Purus River Project papers are used for reference purposes, and the project proposes a strategy for community development in the region. For the empirical analysis, the existing processes are assessed according to the methodology of arenas where the social stakeholders interact. Prospects are analyzed through the development of scenarios related to environmental management of fisheries. This is when the approach of a social game is used, where stakeholders ultimately meet in a field of forces in the scenario of local development. By way of conclusion, we could stress the adverse socio-environmental consequences of an overdue fishing activity. Two conditions are required for institutional arrangements that promote collective interests to come into being: dependence and scarcity. The communities along the Upper Purus River are rising to a commons dilemma with the support of the state government. Fishers want to limit fishing efforts over a depleting stock, and the state is investing in participatory management mechanisms. Regulation of fishing agreements reflects the acknowledgement that organized riverine communities are capable of implementing new institutional arrangements or agreements and of enforcing rules for the use of common resources.

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pesca outros gestão ambiental amazônia

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