Gestão participativa nas unidades de conservação: o caso do refugio de vida silvestre Mata do Engenho Uchoa, Pernambuco, Brasil

Abstract

The work deals with a look at new forms of protected areas management, from the guidelines established by the National Protected Areas System (SNUC). The research aims to analyze the participative management of the Management Board of the Wildlife Refuge (RVS) Mata Uchôa, we seek to understand the process of governance of protected area that encompasses the actions of the actors involved in the management process, their participation and involvement . To this end, we used the following methodological procedures: literature, documentary and legal framework, primary data collection, identification of significant elements of participation, discourse analysis and content of the minutes to thereby obtain the expected results through indicators and evaluation of management and social participation in the Management Board of RVS Mata Uchôa. In this way, we obtained satisfactory results from the point of view of systematic holding of meetings, the involvement of the directors in the preparation of management instruments, the attendance of directors at meetings, on the other hand there was the desaparelhamento public legal power manager RVS Mata Uchôa, the parameters of physical infrastructure, economic and personal. In this sense, it is concluded that participatory management is present and that the involvement of civil society actors and public authorities that make up the Council itself as booster element of participatory management of the Management Board of RVS Mata Uchôa, as well as construction and implementation of established management tools through the bylaws and the management plan provided this favorable scenario of participatory management. These elements form the basis of institutional, policy and executive for the Governance process involving the government and civil society as effective agents in the decisions and planning of RVS Mata Uchôa.