Mediação de conflitos agrários e ambientais: um estudo sobre o Vale do São João no estado do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

The research dealt with conflicts that occurred in São João River Valley on public lands disappropriated by INCRA to Biological Reserve of Poço das Antas. We tried to understand them bringing into focus land conflicts, occupations and camps in the surrounding of Reserve at 1990. The thesis aims to show how, after sanitation work at 1980, some areas were invaded by farmers as well as rural workers required agrarian reform in those public lands. Biological Reserve began to dispute adjoining areas in order to enlargement and moved judicial actions against rural settlements. Along those conflicts, an environmental conception that considers man action as an external factor and nature as untouchable earned force of law and conflicted with land work right claimed by means of collective occupation. The thesis intends to show either the limits of State dialogue with workers organizations or conflicts resolutions between State agencies and at public politics conduction to rural settlements and to Biological Reserve. We tried to show that neither environmental question nor agrarian question can be understood isolated, they may be inter-related.