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5. Bandidos na Serra do Mar? Conflitos, estratégias e usos múltiplos dos recursos naturais na Mata Atlântica de São Paulo

Author

Jorge Calvimontes and Lúcia da Costa Ferreira

Subjects
arenas, social conflicts, biodiversity conservation, Protected Areas, multiple uses of natural resources, traditional people, Environmental sciences, GE1-350
Abstract

The history of the relationship between inhabitants and managers of the Picinguaba Administrative Nucleus in the Serra do Mar State Park (SMSP) is characterized by conflicts related to the rights to permanence and to the use of natural resources. The SMPS is located in the northern coast of São Paulo State, the richest and more developed state of Brazil. Created in 1977, the park remained on paper until the beginning of the 1980s decade. At this moment, these inhabitants, rural workers and fishermen, were delegitimized and lost their rights to work and to continue their cultural and productive activities. Since then, the inhabitants were considered illegal or, on their own words, “bandits”, due to the Brazilian law prohibiting the presence of inhabitants inside the Protected Areas with strictly protection. This research aims to analyze the conflicts, strategies and organization of the different social actors (inhabitants, managers, members of NGOs and researchers) related to the Picinguaba Nucleus, the use of natural resources and the access to land. All these actors have their own interests, perspectives, struggles and action strategies, and organize themselves around them in a very complex and multi-level arena. This conflict caused new forms of social organization in the SMSP: local leaders arose and communal associations that aim the struggle for the inhabitants rights were created. Three issues are transversal to this conflict and the strategies followed by the actors along the years: land issue, identity issue and use and conservation of natural resources issue. Thus, the inhabitants were organized around the struggle for their right to land, and using categories such as traditional people. All of this in a context with a Protected Area with strictly protection, located in a region not only with high biodiversity, but with a history of use of natural resources and human occupation.

Published
2016
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7. SIRENA, une plateforme participative au service de la gouvernance du delta transfrontalier du fleuve Sénégal

Author

Marie-Christine Cormier-Salem, Labaly Toure, Mathilde Fabre, Yasmin Bouaita, Boubacar Ba Mamadou El Abass, and Élisabeth Habert

Subjects
biodiversity conservation, land governance, participatory approach, co-construction of knowledge, GIS, Anthropology, GN1-890
Abstract

Coastal wetlands, ecosystems that are providing diverse services and are subjected to multiple pressures, are confronted with contradictory management policies, torn between agricultural or hydropower development and biodiversity conservation. In a context of rapid environmental and socio-economic change, this is the case for the Senegal River Delta, which became a Biosphere Reserve in 2005.Within the framework of the LMI PATEO (IRD/UGB), an Information System for the management of natural resources in the Senegal River Delta was created in order to represent the complex and dynamic issues affecting it. This tool attempts to organize a set of normalized geographical data at the scale of this transboundary area. More specifically SIRENA endeavors to be a tool for dialogue and a support for decision-making requiring a participatory approach by, in particular, involving the stakeholders who are already producing and using spatialized data. This paper will present SIRENA (concepts, actions, first results) and questions the relevance of such a participatory platform for the sustainable governance of the resources and ecosystems of the Senegal River Delta.The emphasis is on the co-construction of the platform with the various stakeholders (protected area managers, researchers, geomatics experts) through all its phases from design to implementation. The set-up involves workshops for dialogue, training, fieldwork and the use of communication tools (mailing list, file exchange). The design and data collection feeding the system are managed by mixed thematic working groups. In this manner SIRENA has established a network of partners and created a platform for multi-stakeholder dialogue, rather than only collecting data or producing new knowledge. This collaborative process, that seeks to be permanent, is now confronting the challenge of developing an action-research programme for the sustainable governance of the Senegal Delta, potentially expanding to other deltas in West Africa.

Published
2016
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8. Problemática territorial y conservación de la biodiversidad en espacios protegidos de Argentina

Author

Juan Pablo Morea

Subjects
Geografía Económica y Social, Latin Americans, Expansionism, Geography, Planning and Development, ESPACIOS PROTEGIDOS, Argentina, 0211 other engineering and technologies, 0507 social and economic geography, Biodiversity, lcsh:G1-922, Context (language use), 02 engineering and technology, Biodiversity conservation, Territorial conflicts, CIENCIAS SOCIALES, Political science, Social conflict, purl.org/becyt/ford/5 [https], 05 social sciences, PROBLEMÁTICA TERRITORIAL, 021107 urban & regional planning, CONSERVACIÓN DE LA BIODIVERSIDAD, Protected areas, Economy, Primary sector of the economy, Ciencias Medioambientales, Threatened species, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, CONFLICTIVIDAD SOCIAL, 050703 geography, lcsh:Geography (General), purl.org/becyt/ford/5.7 [https]
Abstract

La problemática territorial en América Latina se ha profundizado en los últimos años a consecuencia de un importante proceso de expansión de las actividades productivas del sector primario. Esta problemática, que tiene basamento en la relación disfuncional sociedad-naturaleza, en un contexto de economía globalizada ha adquirido nuevas formas y ha instaurado nuevas lógicas que han impulsado a una profundización de los desequilibrios territoriales. Desequilibrios que han generado una degradación del ambiente que se contrapone con la tendencia mundial de conservar la biodiversidad, y producen un conflicto de intereses entre la conservación y el desarrollo económico. Mediante un abordaje que combina una exhaustiva revisión bibliográfica con el estudio del caso argentino, en este trabajo se explora la problemática territorial en torno a los espacios protegidos caracterizando las nuevas lógicas del proceso expansionista y la conflictividad social asociada a estos procesos. Los resultados demuestran que el avance de las fronteras productivas es cada vez mayor, que los espacios protegidos y la biodiversidad se encuentran fuertemente amenazados y que las políticas en materia de conservacionismo no han logrado contrarrestar el fenómeno expansionista. The territorial conflict in Latin America has deepened in recent years as a result of a significant expansion of the productive activities of the primary sector. This problem, in a globalised economy context, has acquired new forms and it has established new logic that has worsened territorial imbalances. This situation has resulted in a degradation of the environment, which is at odds with the global trend of biodiversity conservation, and it has produced a conflict of interests between conservation and economic development. Using an approach that combines a comprehensive literature review with the Argentinian case study, this paper explores the territorial problems affecting protected areas thus characterizing the new logic of the expansionist process and the social conflict associated with them. The results show that the productive borders are advancing, that protected areas and biodiversity are significantly threatened and that the conservation policies have failed to counteract the expansionist phenomenon.

Published
2017

9. La enseñanza monumentalista y utilitarista de las causas de la biodiversidad y de las estrategias para su conservación: un estudio sobre la transposición didáctica de los manuales de la Educación Secundaria española

Author

Gonzalo Miguel Angel Bermudez, Ana Lía De Longhi, and Valentín Gavidia

Subjects
Textbook, Secondary education, Ciencias de la Educación, purl.org/becyt/ford/5.3 [https], lcsh:Education (General), Biology teaching, CIENCIAS SOCIALES, Biodiversity conservation, Parques nacionales, Libro de texto, Political science, Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory, Enseñanza de la biología, Curriculum, LIBROS DE TEXTO, purl.org/becyt/ford/5 [https], Aside, General Medicine, General Chemistry, National curriculum, Biodiversity, Biodiversitat, Ciència Ensenyament, Diversidad biológica, Chevallard, Otras Ciencias de la Educación, National parks, Educació secundària, lcsh:L7-991, Humanities
Abstract

Este trabajo estudia la presencia y complejidad en el tratamiento de las causas de la biodiversidad y de las razones para su conservación que realizan manuales escolares de la Educación Secundaria de España. Para ello, se determinó el ámbito conceptual y axiológico que define la comunidad de expertos, se examinó el tratamiento propuesto en el currículo español y se analizaron 50 manuales escolares (27 de la Educación Secundaria Obligatoria –ESO – y 30 del Bachillerato). Los resultados mostraron que el proceso de transposición didáctica vuelve monumentalista la enseñanza de la biodiversidad, ya que olvida las razones de su existencia, y se enriquece de connotaciones biologicistas y utilitaristas sobre los motivos de su conservación, dejando de lado las dimensiones éticas, filosóficas y culturales. Además, el tratamiento de los manuales escolares de las causas y conservación de la biodiversidad reveló una marcada distancia de lo señalado en el currículum de España. This paper studies the presence and complexity of the treatment of the causes of biodiversity and the reasons for its conservation in Spanish secondary education textbooks. To this purpose, a conceptual and axiological framework defined by an expert community was reviewed, the treatment proposed in the Spanish national curriculum was described and a total of 50 textbooks were analyzed (27 from middle and 30 from high schools). The results showed that the process of didactic transposition makes the teaching of biodiversity monumental, since it omits the reasons for its existence. Consequently, teaching becomes entrenched in biologicist and utilitarian connotations about the motives for its conservation, thereby leaving aside the ethical, philosophical and cultural dimensions. Furthermore, the treatment of the causes and reasons for biodiversity conservation in textbooks revealed a marked distance from the curriculum of Spain, especially for the first year of middle and high school. Fil: Bermudez, Gonzalo Miguel Angel. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina Fil: de Longhi, Ana Lia Teresita. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba; Argentina Fil: Gavidia, Valentín. Universidad de Valencia; España

Published
2015