Cenários de mudanças de uso da terra na Amazônia: explorando uma abordagem participativa e multi-escala no PAE Lago Grande, em Santarém-Pará

Abstract

The Agroforestry Settlement Projects (ASP) has largely been successful in achieving land ownership by traditional communities in the Amazon. In 2005, an ASP has been created by the National Institute of Colonization and Land Reform (INCRA) in Santarém County (PA), the so-called ASP of Great Lake, which has an area of 290,000 hectares and 30,000 inhabitants, and corresponds to one of the largest land reform settlements ever created in Brazil. In this agrarian context, this work aims to use scenarios derived from participatory methods in conformity with the reality of Amazon. Scenarios are tales of the future designed to better reflect from business planning to environmental analysis, using a variety of techniques and goals. Therefore, this work evaluate whether this technique can give support to the consolidation of different territorial units in this region. Thus, the ASP of Great Lake was used here as a case study. As a result, the study shows that there is great potential for replication such efforts in other agrarian reform methods of settlements and in units of conservation and sustainable use.