Conflitos entre sobrevivência familiar e conservação ambiental em Reservas Extrativistas da Amazônia

Abstract

Public policies for RESEXs (over the last three decades) continue to not ignore the social needs and environmental goals. Economic Sociology explains the actions of actors within markets, in which individual behavior influences the collective, whether in the insertion of livestock rearing or in the removal of wood, productive diversity and so on. The literature reveals an inefficiency of RESEXs as a development model that guarantees environmental conservation and social development. The research supports the thesis that environmental priority, low investments and devaluation of residents promote high socioeconomic demands, leading to environmental instability and unsustainability of RESEXs in the Amazon. For this, a study was conducted on the association between variables: policy inefficiency, management, control and allocation of financial resources in three RESEXs located in the Brazilian Amazon. The Prism Model was used to identify, select and include the published works on the subject in national and international databases, and, subsequenthy, a survey (semi-open questionnaire) with residents from three Amazon RESEXs located in the State of Acre, Amapá and Rondônia. We interviewed 232 residents and 12 environmental analysts from ICMBio. The results revealed that RESEXs are unsustainable because they were created with an emphasis on biological conservation and not to develop their residents in a sustainable way. The management model of state institutions is inefficient and there are no trusts that ensure biological stability. The thesis here is that local populations exploit the forest to meet biological, economic and social needs and, therefore, do not consider environmental conservation as a priority, thus leadmy to the unsustainability of RESEXs at Amazon.