Áreas de proteção ambiental como inspiração para o desenvolvimento sustentável com liberdade: o caso da criação da APA - Alter do Chão/PA

Abstract

This dissertation had as foundation the case study: the creation APA - Alter do Chão, located in the area of the Eixo Forte, in the district of Alter do Chão, in Santarém, Pará, Amazonian. The used methodological base was a Bibliographical Revision that it allowed a dialogue of the main themes and, a Research of Field, where we took place open interviews and collection of information in municipal and federal government institutions. The field research had as last end the characterization of the area and the rebuilding of the process of creation of APA - Alter of the Ground through oral report and of participant observation. It was looked for, to leave of those methods, to reach the objectives ends. Such objectives are related with the understanding attempt of as the process of creation of an Area of Environmental Protection - APA, in the case APA - Alter do Chão, can be or no seen as inspiration for the maintainable development with freedom in a given area, taking into account aspects political, economical, social and environmental that you/they permeate such process. That process that, in all of the levels, it is sustained starting from the relationship society-nature and starting from the faith that Unit of Conservation - UC of Maintainable Use, as APA's and the development can be configured as possible relationships since there is a perception that the society has freedom and she needs to acquire capacities to do choices, making possible to the members of this to reach a landing in that you/they recognize that his/her survival and of other generations they depend on these choices. In this sense, they are two the main results of this study: the first is related to the perception that APA's while strategies of environmental public politics can be seen as means of making possible the relationship society-nature starting from a democratic participation process in that the main involved actors agree and stimulated her use the same ones in the search of the development. And, according to the positive vision of the development, harnessing it to processes that unchain creation of UC's of Maintainable Use, like APA - Alter do Chão.