Experiências em rios e mangues: lugar, paisagem, e percepção ambiental dos usuários da reserva extrativista marinha de Mocapajuba (Pa)

Abstract

In general, the Brazilian State creates the Conservation Units and Protected Areas to comply with international recommendations and / or local requirements for nature conservation or maintenance of areas where so-called traditional populations live. The Extractive Reserves, Brazilian Units of the sustainable use group, constitute territorial spaces destined to self-sustainable exploitation and conservation of renewable natural resources by traditional populations. In such areas there is the possibility of materializing sustainable development, balancing ecological interests of environmental conservation, as well as the social purposes of improving the lives of the populations that inhabit this territory. The present work aims to identify the elements expressed in the environmental perception of individuals or social groups, that is, to understand the relationships and experiences that promote positive values and attitudes towards the environment, and that are contained in the perception of the inhabitants of these spaces. For this, the Mocapajuba Marine Extractive Reserve was chosen, located in the municipality of São Caetano de Odivelas, in the northeast region of the State of Pará, created in 2014. The methodological procedures were initiated with the literature review for the theoretical discussion on perception Environmental and the relationship with the concepts of place and landscape. Subsequently, through interviews conducted in 2015 and 2016, revealed the elements expressed in the environmental perception of users to understand the relationships and experiences that clarify positive values and attitudes in the face of the Extractive Reserve concept. In this way, the residents expressed environmental perceptions that, in general, are in line with the environmental values deposited in the Conservation Units. Thus, the theoretical and practical information can cooperate for the studies, actions and / or policies to be implemented by the environmental agencies in the PAs, especially in the Marine Extractive