Gestão ambiental no Baixo Tocantins: dos movimentos ambientalistas à elaboração do PPDJUS

Abstract

The current work intends to reflect about the performance of social and environmental movements in Amazon, and how it contributed to the emergence of Social environmentalism in the region. It analyses how the Social environmentalism has contributed to the policies of environmental management in the city of Cametá, and how it influenced in its origin, development and strengthening as institutional instance. These policies have led to a new conception of environmental management in the city with implications to the use of natural resources and environment. Alongside to the decentralization policy, the performance of several social actors has promoted a participative management in the city. The dissertation searches to understand the dynamics of these movements and their implications in the use of territory since the fishing agreements and the mobilization to preserve the forest and aquatic resources, verifying the changes in the use of the territory as of this kind of intervention and, also, the results of this social environmental mobilization concerning to the formulation of regional plans and development to the Low Tocantins as the PPDEJUS – Popular Plan of Sustainable Development to the Ebb of UHE Tucuruí.