Percepção Ambiental na Estação Ecológica de Jureia - Itatins / Environmental Perception at Estação Ecológica de Juréia-Itatins

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

The Estação Ecológica de Juréia-Itatins (EEJI) is a fully protected conservation unit. Such category aims to preserve nature and the fulfillment of scientific researches, being public visitation consented only for educational purposes. In spite of the fact that the law prohibits human occupation in such units, when EEJI was set up in 1986 it already had some residents, summing up to 1,531 people in 1991. Consequently the EEJI presents social conflicts as a result of the restrictions proceeding from the environmental policy which started to integrate the life of those people. In this context, this master essay wants to verify if there is a correlation between the existence of these conflicts and the different environmental perceptions of the five socio-cultural groups involved in the environmental management of this commonplace territory, known as: (i) the administration staff, (ii) park keepers , (iii) the entities of the organized civilian society, (iv) the researchers, and (v) the residents. Through open questioning interviews and indirect observations made in the field about the human relations and their interactions with the space, an analysis was made of the meanings, the attitudes and the value judgments of these groups concerning both the natural and constructed environments in the EEJI. Their expectations in relation to the environmental management of this conservation unit were also identified. The results of this research not only indicated that the different environmental perceptions are in fact bound by the conflicts but also pointed out several convergence points in these perceptual alterities. There is openness to a more democratic management that conciliates the conservation of natural and cultural wealth of the EEJI. There is the perception that the power concentrated in the hands of the Governmental Department responsible for EEJI presents a greater chance of conflicts taking place. The reverse order, that contemplates and knows the social and environmental dynamics of the place and that assures the participation of the groups involved is recognized by the interviewees as a fairer and more efficient way of settling the impasse. In this sense, the study of the environmental perception shows itself as an important political tool, once it reveals and contextualizes the local reality, supplying subsidies to the planning and managing, avoiding or minimizing the conflicts that arise from the incoherent actions taken. Geographical concepts of space, landscape, territory and place support the arguments accomplished in this study.

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percepção ambiental território environmental and cultural conservation conflito socioambiental landscape conservação socioambiental environmental perception territory paisagem place space espaço lugar environmental and cultural conflicts

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