Tensões e expectativas: as narrativas dos interlocutores da reserva extrativista marinha Mãe Grande de Curuçá - PA

Abstract

Extractive Reserves constitute an environmental public policy originated by a process of social struggle in search of fair and balanced relations in traditional territories. The main interest in the creation of the Reserve is the possibility of the residents of these areas to live according to their way of life, however, its implation brings changes in social and environmental relations due to the legal-administrative structure that the Reserve presents. Thus, using a methodological approach to bibliographical research and field research, this research analyzed how users appropriated the Extractive Reserve category in their territory, and in a specific way, how local social actions were undertaken in the process of creation and implementation of the RESEX researched: the Marine Extraction Reserve Mãe Grande de Curuçá - PA. Mãe Grande has its specific context about the coastal and marine zone of Pará, its appropriation by the users, related to the benefits of housing and development granted by federal government policies, and the Reserve presents, as one of its main challenges, the strengthening and mobilization of the community base, through the support of local leaders to collectively exercise the management of the Unit.