Regularização ambiental rural: (des) encontros entre o instituído e o executado na Comunidade Rio Bonito – Projeto de Assentamento Águia – Paragominas/Ulianópolis (PA)

Abstract

With the publication of Law No. 12,727 / 2012 which established the new Forest Code, the environmental regularization process has become mandatory for all rural properties, and defined the rural environmental registration (CAR) as one of its main instruments and adherence to this instrument as the first stage of that process. Considering the requirement of this instrument, its meaninglessness in the settlements, as well as them identified environmental liabilities, this study has the general objective to analyze how environmental regulation is taking place in the agrarian reform settlements, in particular in the Community Rio Bonito located in Settlement project Eagle in Paragominas / Ulianópolis-PA, based on the understanding and experience that the settlers themselves have on this process. The research was developed in three stages: bibliographical, documentary research and field research. The case study was carried out in the Community Rio Bonito, one of four agrovilas Eagle settlement project with 35 families, out of 68 existing in the settlement project. Using participant observation, open interviews and semi-structured we sought to identify the notions that settlers had on rural environmental regulation and its instruments, and the transformations that occurred in the productive dynamics of the settlement and in the lives of the settlers with its implementation. The observation of this fact, in particular, allowed us to state that the implementation of this process did not result in significant changes in the productive dynamics, environmental and social of the settlement. The changes observed in reality this PA as reducing deforestation, the elimination of the use of fire in productive activities and the adoption of more conscious attitudes toward conservation of Permanent Preservation Areas (APP) and the remaining forest fragments, They were the result of the environmental regularization process and the implementation of the CAR, and according to the settlers the benefits of this instrument summed up the facilitation of release of bank financing for the projects of family farming.