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Análise meteorológica no estabelecimento de plântulas do açaizeiro (Euterpe oleracea Mart.), na APA ilha do Combu, Belém, Pará, Brasil
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2011-03-29) FREIRE, Antonio Sérgio Cunha; JARDIM, Mario Augusto Gonçalves; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9596100367613471; VITORINO, Maria Isabel; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4570131095902916
The objective of this work was to better comprehend the correlation between the meteorologic variables, solar radiation soil diffuse incident, the air temperature, relative humidity, and the precipitation in the subcanopy of the lowland forest in enviromental protection – Combu Island, in function of the natural regeneration of the forest, through the analysis of survival, mortality and birth in acai berry seedlings, species (Euterpe oleracea Mart.), between April 2010 and January 2011. An automatic meteorologic station was installed on the Combu Island that continually collected and registered the meteorologic data, producing hourly averages for each variable. Six plots were demarcated on the perimeter of the station, where one thousand sevent two acai berry seedlings were indentified and monitored. The number of living, dead, and new seedlings was monitored every two weeks. After integrating the biological data, they were correlated with the meteorological variables, and it was found that the precipitation and relative air humidity were the factors that best correlated with the survival of the seedlings with a value of .74 and .68, respectively. followed by the solar radiation soil diffuse incident in the subcanopy of the lowland, whose correlation was .42. The entry of solar radiation upwards of an average 391 W/m² (average for the observation period) suggests the determination of the higher death idexes of acai berry seedlings in the months of may and july, due to the absence of cloud cover and the lack of precipitation. Analyzing the entry of new seedlings was intially inhibited due to the rain and elevated relative air humidity in the months of April and May. After this period, there was a decrease in average rainfall and in humidity, thus providing ideal conditions for germination, probably potentiated by the elevation of solar radiation. Throughout the study period it was noted that same influence in the El Niño the natural regeneration of acai in the lowlands of Combu had the highest conservation of the population ocurred after the first part of June, with 71% survival, 29% death, compensated by 36% birth.
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A atividade pesqueira nas ilhas do entorno de Belém
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2010) SCHALLENBERGER, Bárbara Heck; FRÉDOU, Flávia Lucena; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4779271407117528
The Amazonian estuary is a region with favorable conditions for productivity, and fishery is an important activity. The islands of Combu, Onças and Mosqueiro, focus of this study, are part of the Amazonian estuary and fishing is an important activity. Based on this information, the objective of this study was to describe and to compare the different types of fishing at Combu, Onças and Mosqueiro islands, identifying sustainability indicators, considering the economic, social, ecological and technological aspects, which results may help to assist to generate subsidies for the formulation of public policies to the fisheries sector. Descriptive and numeric variables considering the different dimensions were used in order to describe the systems of fish production to make comparisons including both the systems and also the islands studied. For comparative statistical analysis only the numerical variables (means and percentages) were used from data collected by researches and from secondary data. Multivariate analysis; Cluster analysis and ordination (MDS) comparing the systems were applied to identify groups and the possible causes of the similarity between the systems for each island. On Combu´s Island it was identified the following fishery systems: matapi, gill net for consumption, block net , longline hook medium and longline hook large. On Onças´s Island it was observed the fishery systems matapi, gill net for consumption, gill net for commercial purpose, block net , longline hook medium and longline hook large. On Mosqueiro´s Island it was identified the fishery systems matapi, gill net commercial, longline hook medium and longline hook large. The analysis of systems in all dimensions showed that the island of Mosqueiro differs to the other islands. When analyzed separately by dimension Matapi system, block net and gill net consumption of the islandes Combu and Onças were very similar. However, systems observed in Mosqueiro´s Island differ from the other islands mainly considering the economic dimension. Based on the results, it can be said that fishing in the islands of Onças and Combu is for subsistence and the main activity is the vegetable extraction while fishing in Mosqueiro´s Island is commercial. Although fishing in the islands of Combu and Onças is only for subsistence, it´s also an important source of food and extra money for the residents. In Mosqueiro´s Island fishing has high economic importance, but the fishing areas are also exploited by fishermen from other parts of the state without any management initiatives by the government.
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Atividades acadêmicas na rotina de crianças ribeirinhas participantes do Programa Bolsa Família
(2013-06) FREIRE, Viviam Rafaela Barbosa Pinheiro; SILVA, Simone Souza da Costa; PONTES, Fernando Augusto Ramos; BORGES, Júlia de Almeida Roffé; MOURA, Maria Lucia Seidl de
This article aims to describe the routine related to academic life of children who participate in the Bolsa Família Program in an Amazon riverside community. A Sociodemographic and a Routine Inventory were administered to 30 children: 16 girls and 14 boys. The main results indicate attending school occupies 16% of their weekday, homework 3% and no reading activities take place outside the school. In the weekend, children do not make homework or develop reading activities. Parental participation in the routine of their sons and daughters is restricted. Actions to stimulate involvement and qualification of those riverside community families are necessary so they can participate and organize academic activities in the routine of their children.
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Biodiversity of decapod crustaceans in the estuarine floodplain around the city of Belém (Pará) in Brazilian Amazonia
(2012-06) CAVALCANTE, Danielle Viveiros; SILVA, Bianca Bentes da; MARTINELLI-LEMOS, Jussara Moretto
The present study focused on the decapod fauna of the fluvial-estuarine environment of the Guajará Bay, in the Brazilian state of Pará, where specimens were collected monthly from six sites, from May 2006 to April 2007. A total of 6,793 specimens were captured, belonging to 11 species of crab and shrimp: eight palaemonids - Macrobrachium amazonicum (Heller, 1862), Macrobrachium surinamicum Holthuis, 1948, Macrobrachium carcinus (Linnaeus, 1758), Macrobrachium rosenbergii (De Man, 1879), Macrobrachium spp. 1-4 -, one portunid - Callinectes bocourti A. Milne-Edwards, 1879 -, and two trichodactylids - Sylviocarcinus devileii H. Milne-Edwards, 1853 and Sylviocarcinus pictus (Milne-Edwards, 1853). While no significant differences were found in the ecological indices of diversity with respect to season, site, or trap size, a tendency for increased abundance and species richness was found during the dry season (August-November), in particular at some sites, apparently reflecting the influence of the estuary's saline wedge.
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Constituir-se professor nas ilhas de Belém: ensinando e aprendendo matemática
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2007) ANDRADE, Ercio Oliveira; GONÇALVES, Tadeu Oliver; http://lattes.cnpq.br/6789250569319668
The objective of this research is to understand how the teachers of the Islands of Belém consist as teachers throughout a trajectory of professional formation in the partner-cultural conditions of this region with prominence to its mathematics knowledge. It is about teachers located in schools of five Islands managed by Belem City Hall and Para government Pará. Once diversified forms of knowledge are involved, we theoretically base our research in the authors: Tardif, Lorenzato, Fiorentini e Lorenzato, Imbernón, Smole e Diniz, Charlot, Zabala e Perrenoud. The methodology is based on the researcher’s participant observation (also called Ethnographic) and in the qualitative analysis of the obtained information. The research is based on the inquiry that searched to understand how the teachers in Island of Belém had formed with registered data: in the historical-cultural identification of the islands, of the respective schools, through interviews with the respective teachers, through data obtained in classroom through the mathematics course for initial series for teachers of the island, photos, videos and sound recording. The research shows that the teachers of initial series deal with mathematical concepts in classroom, thus they teach mathematics. It evidences the challenges and the necessity of a deeper knowledge of these concepts, as well as the perseverance before the difficulties found in the search of continued formation and also in the development of the teacher’s practice. The analysis shows that these teachers elaborate and elaborate again their knowledge through the development of their professional practice and also it identifies the search for knowledge by these teachers.
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A construção de significados nas brincadeiras de faz-de-conta por crianças de uma turma de educação infantil ribeirinha da Amazônia
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2009-03-03) TEIXEIRA, Sônia Regina dos Santos; ALVES, José Moysés; http://lattes.cnpq.br/6500775506186127
The present study focuses the process of construction of meanings in the make-believe play for children of a riverine class in Amazon, from the formularizations of the historical and cultural psychology. In this theoretical methodological perspective, the human being constitutes itself while subject intermediated by the internalization/externalization of the meanings of its cultural group, that are constructed during the dialogical interactions. The main activity by which the preschool child affects this process is the make-believe play, for give the child opportunity to operate directly with the meanings shared in the cultural context where she lives is. In this manner, the objective of this research was to examine the dialogical interactions that happen during the make-believe play of children of a classroom of a riverine class of the Amazon to identify the meanings constructed in the interactions and to verify how, through them, the children co-construct themselves while citizens and participants of the culture. For this, I made a field-work in the classes of kindergarten of a pedagogical unit, located in the Island of the Combu, in the city of Belém of Pará, throughout the years of 2003 and 2006, that was divided in two distinct stages. At the first moment of the research, I effected the characterization of the cultural context of life of the children who frequented the classes of kindergarten. The participants of this stage were thirteen children who had frequented the classroom of kindergarten in the year of 2003, with eleven boys and two girls, between four and five years old, the teacher of the kindergarten class and the responsible ones for the children. The children and its familiar ones had been interviewed. The children had been observed playing in its houses. I analyzed the subjects, the partners, the places, objects and the meanings constructed in the kids play. At the second moment, I made the microgenetic analysis of the dialogical interactions that had occurred in the make-believe play. The participants had been sixteen children who had frequented the classroom of kindergarten in the year of 2005 and the teacher. The analyzed data showed: 1) The ways of construction of the meanings for the children and between them and the teacher; 2) The types of constructed meanings: about the world, about themselves and the others, and about the relation of themselves with the others; 3) The origin of the constructed meanings; 4) The relation culture-subjectivity. The characterization of the cultural context revealed that although they were in contact with the urban context, the children had revealed linked, mainly, to the riverine context. The microgenetic analysis of the dialogical interactions during the tricks showed that the meanings about the world, about themselves and the others, and the relation of themselves with the others, shared in the cultural context of the Island of the Combu, had been internalized, starting to constitute the subjectivities of the investigated children. It indicated in despite of make-believe play, by itself, independent of the participation of other children and the adult, contributes for the process of cultural constitution of the child, but it can be enriched with the participation of other children and the teacher, that respects the initiative, the culture, the level of development of the child and has clarity of its paper to plan and to lead the pedagogical act in one determined direction. Other children contribute increasing the motivation for the trick, including new elements of their cultural universe, renewing the subjects, offering models to be represented and creating complementation opportunities that imply in challenges to be adjusted during the interactions to the levels of developments of the partners. The teacher contributes planning interactive environment - child - child and child-teacher, respecting the activity and the level of development of the children, detaching the constructed meanings in the active and interactive way and, in some cases redirecting the play, with the purpose of the constitution of a determined type of subjectivity and not of a different one. In short, the study reveals how by means of the meanings constructed in the dialogical interactions, the children participate of their collective culture and constitute themselves as riverine people of Amazon.
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O contexto das brincadeiras das crianças ribeirinhas da Ilha do Combu
(2008) TEIXEIRA, Sônia Regina dos Santos; ALVES, José Moysés
This study describes the context of plays among preschoolers on Combu Island, near Belém, PA, focusing on aspects of physical and social environment as well as the main activities of adults and the peculiarities of the make-believe play. Thirteen children (11 boys and 2 girls,) aged between four and five years old participated in the research. The children and their relatives were interviewed, and the group was observed while playing at their homes. The play was analyzed with reference to the themes, their peer group, the location, the objects involved, and the implicit meaning in each activity. Although the children were in close contact with an urban setting, they showed a strong affinity with their riverine environment.
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Dinâmica populacional do camarão cascudo Macrobrachium amazonicum (Heller, 1862) da Ilha de Combú – Belém-PA
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2006-04-28) SILVA, Márcia Cristina Nylander; ROSA FILHO, José Souto; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3223362071251898; FRÉDOU, Flávia Lucena; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4779271407117528
Shrimps of genus Macrobrachium, family Palaemonidae, are largely utilized for aquaculture and also are explored by commercial fisheries. Amongst the species of this genus, M. amazonicum is largely consumed, shows valued meat and is largely distributed. Considering the social-economic importance of this resource in the State of Pará, this study has the objective of describing the population dynamics and assesses the stock of barky shrimp M. amazonicum in island of the Combú (Pará). Data was collect from March 2002 to February 2003 (except august) where approximately 500 grams of shrimp were monthly obtained. In laboratory, individuals were measured (total length and length of carapace) and weighted (total weight). For determining the fecundity, after removed the eggs mass, were transferred to a water solution were they were counted under a microscopy. For the determination of the population parameters, it was utilized the Program FISAT (Fish Stock Assessment Tools). Females showed smaller maximum length when compared to males, although their average mensal lengths through all year were superior to those of males. It was registered a significant positive sexual proportion to females in July, September, January and February and for the length classes 2.5-2.9 cm and 6.5 to 9.4 cm. The fecundity showed a positive linear relation with the total length and the number of eggs varied from 40 to 3375 eggs/female. It was registered 3 cohorts for the species which were born in December-January/02, September-October/02 and April-May/03. Considering the different methodologies, growth parameters were similar between them and K for males was superior when compared to females and varied from 0.7 to 1.35 cm/month. For females K varied from 0.66 to 0.91 cm/month. L∞ (for most methodologies) was also superior for males (12.37 to 17.66 cm) when compared to females (12.66 to 14.14 cm). Estimated values of total mortality Z for the capture curve had been bigger in the higher for males (values from 3.15 to 6.13) than for females (values from 3.86 to 6.89) the same occurred for method of Beverton and Holt, males (values between 5.43 to 9.31). The length at first capture (Lc) was superior for females (5.88 cm) than for males (4.25 cm). The EMSY (explotation rate for the maximum sustainable yield) for males and females is below the E (exploitation rate) indicating that M. amazonicum of island of the Combú is over-exploited.
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Distribuição espaço-temporal das larvas de peixe e sua relação à hidrodinâmica e à qualidade da água no entorno das ilhas do Combu e Murucutu, Belém - PA
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2010) WANDERLEY, Clarissa Maria da Silva; MENEZES, Maria Ozilea Bezerra; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4537440664948152; SARPEDONTI, Valérie; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2358097649881792
In order to compensate for the lack of information on fish larvae communities in the Amazonians region, this study aims to investigate the spatial and temporal variation of larval density, diversity in relation to taxa and development stages. Data collected were related to water quality and hydrodynamic features at sample stations. Samples were taken in October/2008, January, April and July/2009 according to the pluviometric index. Samplings occurred in the Guama and Benedito Rivers bordering the Combu and Murucutu Islands as well as in the Paciência Canal which separates the two islands. The larvae were captured towing a conical plankton net with 330 μm mesh size, 0.5 m of diameter and 2.5 m in length. In parallel surface water were taken, for water quality analysis, and data hydrodynamic. Data were registered included univariate (ANOVA) and multivariate (PCA; RDA) approaches. Larval community included 4.983individuals distributed among the Clupeidae, Engraulidae, Sciaenidae, Carangidae, Tetraodontidae and Hemiramphidae families. The families Clupeidae and Engraulidae dominated, followed by the Sciaenidae family. The peak of larvae as well as the highest density of preflexion stage was registered in October/2008, during dry season pointing at a major spawning event. The Paciência Canal presented a higher larval abundance on its northern side, probably in relation to the strong water flow from the Guamá River. Moreover, the Paciência Canal presented differentiated larval densities for presenting more favorable environmental characteristics. In the area east of the Guamá River larvae were also abundant probably represent a less agitated than the area west. In the East side of the Guamá River larvae were also abundant, probably due to its quieter water when compared to the West side that received the ebbing waters of the Paciência Canal. Among all the parameters taken into considerations, the hydrodynamic were the only ones who showed the best associations to the larval communities. Distribution of larvae at different development stages remained constant over time. Taxa distribution only presented different in October/2008. Diversity and larval density was considered low, which may be related to huge input of freshwater. Water quality was not considered as a limiting factor for fish larvae growth and survival. Water dynamic in the Paciência Canal indicated that there is a restriction in the transport of fish larvae between Guamá and Benedito Rivers.
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Educação matemática, cultura amazônica e prática pedagógica: a margem de um rio
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2008) BRITO, Maria Augusta Raposo de Barros; LUCENA, Isabel Cristina Rodrigues de; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3255121871351967
This entitled research Mathematical Education, Amazonian Culture and Pedagogic Practice: to the riverbank, it has as objective analyzes the teacher's pedagogic practice that approaches several mathematical contents, starting from the Amazonian Culture in a school belonging to one of the islands from Belém of Pará. The empiric part of this work happened in the period of six months at the School of Combu, located in the Island of the Combu during the attendance of the groups of Infantile Education and of the Basic Cycle. This research is justified for the approach need between the mathematical operations and the daily imaginary of the riverine students, starting from the construction of their houses, skulls (embarkation done handicraftly in exchange for tree), canoes, matapis (traps to catch shrimp done with fiber of the forest), tupés (rugs for drying of the cocoa done of fiber of the forest), nets, toys, baskets.The methodological conceptions are ruled in the beginnings of the qualitative research, based on the approach ethnographic, in order to systematize knowledge about needs and difficulties of the interaction between the scholar mathematics and the local culture. The teacher's pedagogic practice in subject demonstrates concerns with approximating the mathematics teaching the peculiar cultural diversity to the place starting from classes built in the partnership of the you know traditional as the tupés tessitura for exploration of geometric elements, matapis use as didactic material for the construction of decimal metric system among others. It is possible to indicate that the used existences and re-signified, through registrations and analyses under the glance of the Mathematical Education, contribute to the recognition of the influence of the Amazonian Culture, in the process teaching-learning of the school mathematics.
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Famílias de crianças com deficiência mental no contexto ribeirinho amazônico: percepções de pais moradores da Ilha de Combu - PA
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2011-03-18) AFONSO, Tatiana; SILVA, Simone Souza da Costa; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9044423720257634
The present study used the perspective contextual and the Bioecological Theory of Humam Development to identify the perceptions shared among parentes of children with mental disabilities from a bordering community (Ilha do Combu, Pará). It was followed the three families who had a son with mental deficiency registered in the Belém’s Municipal Secretary of Education and / or diagnosis that proved the mental disability. Ethical concerns have been taken in approving the project by ethics committee of UFPA and awareness of participants about the objectives and the risks involved and the secrecy of their identities. The approach of the researcher to the investigated context occurred by the Ecological Engagement methodology. The collects was divided into two distinct stages: first there were regular visits to families registered by the instrument field diary, so the researcher sought to integrate into the environment by successive interactions and became as close as possible of the participants and the second moment it was used the ISD (Inventory socio-demographic) and FIT (Family Identification Test). The results pointed differentiated conditions of development of the children in accordance with perceptions shared by your parents and the contextual features presented on the island. The positive identifications were associated to the good performance of parents’ cares and perceptions of acceptance and belonging in the family of Ana. In the others families (Taciana and Alexandra) were observed conflicts and difficulties represented by the factors: overload in the cares to the son, rejection of the diagnosis, conflicts between the parents and negative identifications. The search concluded that the perceptions shared by the parents were connected to the support received during the diagnosis, the roles in the family, the characteristics of children and contextual aspects present in the culture marked by the isolation region flooded and that has a network social composed of relatives living on the island for generetions.
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História, memória e natureza: as comunidades da Ilha do Combu-Belém-PA
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2006) DERGAN, João Marcelo Barbosa; MOURÃO, Leila; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5665064793338456
The use of natural resources and territory overpasses echonomical, social and symbolic shappings for production and reproduction of populations said to be traditional .in the case of combu island inhabitants the strategy of using the resources and territory impact within those aspects, at times through the handling and extractivism of the açai palm tree, which supports 90 % of the budget during peak periods, at times through the use, selectionand apropriation of the memory as to consolidate values atitudes facing the dispute for the land, relating to the with the reproduction of the community itself while being active member, at the hegemonical disputes of power in the present times.
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O modo de viver como um instrumento de resistência do saber popular dos moradores da ilha do Combu, Belém-Pará
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2010-06-29) BATISTA, Sônia Socorro Miranda; VENTURINI, Ariberto; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3618227053138236
In this study the aim was to reach the way of living as an element of resistance of the popular knowledge in Combu island – Belém-Pará. It is an island that is 1,5 km far away from Belém and is around 15 km long, with approximately 95% of its surface covered with lowland forest of secondary type. Previously it belonged to the town jurisdiction of Acará town, and from 1996, to the city of Belém. This local presents peculiar feature of a rural, considering that its was remained on site throughout peculiarity. This reality expresses rareness of the way of living in the island and features the people who live near the river and live around the vegetation, full of peace, noiseless, no pollution, different from the city life. This means peace to the residents in so far as that it is of a relation based on respect and protection among the neighborhood, observed in the habits and morals they have. Besides the freedom to talk, in the biggest cities. Being so, all this learning , demonstrated in the Combu island residents reports that said they learned besides the home-made medicine, other knowledge like know to make “peconha” (twisted leaves of the palm tree used to climb up it called “peconha”) , “tupé” (a type of wake made of straw used to dry cocoa seeds ), work , respect people, reach new knowledge to live an honest life , prepare food , sow, fish, swim in the river , catch “açaí”, thow “tarrafa” (a kind of net used to catch fish), these are all important to take continuity to education from a generation of riparian culture.
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Organização comunitária e desenvolvimento territorial: o contexto ribeirinho em uma ilha da Amazônia
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2006-12-01) RODRIGUES, Eliana Teles; MATHIS, Armin; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8365078023155571
This is a case study about riverine communities in the Amazon estuary. It analyzes the social and spatial dynamics, as well as the community organization of the resident population in Combu Island. The spatial and territorial organization of the communities is investigated through the production and reproduction of the material and economic life, in the search of experiences which can reference other rural communities vis-à-vis the debate on regional development. Fifty-four family units were studied in four communities: Igarapé Combu, Beira do Rio, Piriquitaquara, and Furo do Benedito. For being a nature study to interdisciplinary it adopts the socioeconomic, politcs and cultural perspective having as focus the question a) How the communities of Combu island have adapted to exogenous interferences and its survival strategies; b) Which differentiation, strategy between the groups and its forms of organization and articulation; c) What generates greater community involvement. Disarticulation is an unfavorable factor in a community organization, implying fewer possibilities for communities to be a part of the society as active citizens in the development process, and in directing their own destinies. Maintaining the environment and the welfare of the population implies information and formal knowledge allied to local specific practices; the higher the degree of knowledge and local permanence, the higher is the identification, valorization, and cooperation among the riverine populations. The absence of such aspects indicates a low degree of development, or isolated practices where such aspects are hardly perceived. Alone, communities are not able to come up with dynamics to promote their welfare, but forest management developed by the riverine populations has served as a base for economic growth. Such practices may enhance açaí production the main local income source increasing families purchase power. This reinforces the argument for partnerships between institutions and communities, in order to promote environmental and social sustainability.
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O processo de criação e implementação de unidades de conservação e sua influência na gestão local: o estudo de caso da área de proteção ambiental da ilha do Combu, em Belém/PA
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2013-04-02) CIRILO, Brenda Batista; ALMEIDA, Oriana Trindade de; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0325909843645279
This is a case study which seeks to analyze the creation process of the Environmental Protection Area (APA) Combu Island, a state sustainable use conservation unit, located in the Amazon estuary, in the insular region of Belém, State of Pará. The study aimed to demonstrate that some aspects of the creation process of the APA Combu Island prevent its management from being consolidated. To contextualize the area, the results of a survey conducted by the manager of the unit, in 2010, with the heads of 100 households, distributed among the four communities in the island, are available. In 2013, a field survey was conducted with the same people, to ascertain their level of knowledge about the creation process of the APA. Ten people related to the process of creation, deployment and management of the unit were also interviewed for further information on the topic and to confront or validate the results of the field research. Since this is a qualitative study, we also analyzed: a) the unit planning and management; b) the historical trajectory of national conservation policy, c) the historical trajectory of conservation policy in the Amazon region and in the State of Pará. The results obtained through the field research show that: the creation of APA Combu Island was result of an indication from scientific studies conducted by Emilio Goeldi Museum of Pará (MPEG) in the 1980s, and later appropriated by the former Institute for Economic, Social and Environmental Development of the State of Pará (Idesp) in the 1990s, which became the main organ responsible for the creation of the unit; most of the respondents are unaware of APA Combu Island, only a small parcel of the respondents was informed /consulted about the creation process of the APA; this query was performed in an informal way. It is assumed that, in sustainable use conservation units, the participation of the resident population is essential for a successful planning and management, although the managing agency does not have many resources to be used in the administration. From the analysis of all these data together, we concluded that the creation process of the APA Combu Island is the main obstacle to consolidate the unit management, since it happened so apart from the knowledge of the resident population.