Empoderamento de comunidades rurais e o estabelecimento de uma Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável: Estudo de caso nos Areais da Ribanceira, Imbituba – SC

• Autor(a) principal: Zank, Sofia
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Hanazaki, Natalia, Arraes de Alencar Assis, Ana Luiza, de Boef, Walter, Peroni, Nivaldo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biodiversidade Brasileira
• Texto Completo: https://revistaeletronica.icmbio.gov.br/BioBR/article/view/272
• topic: community biodiversity management; empowerment; in situ conservation; plant resources; protected areas; conservação in situ; empoderamento; manejo comunitário de biodiversidade; recursos vegetais; unidades de conservação

– In this study our objective was to analyze the empowerment of the community Areaisda Ribanceira, in the municipality of Imbituba (Santa Catarina, Brazil). People from this communityare engaged in a struggle for the recognition to maintain the traditional livelihood and for the establishmentof a Sustainable Development Reserve, a protected area of sustainable use. Studies of empowerment inthe context of protected area management collaborate to establish a kind of biodiversity conservation thatactually allows the inclusion and involvement of local communities in the conservation process. Data werecollected through interviews with members of household units, local leaders and external stakeholders,and through workshops and use of participatory research tools with the community and local leaders.The empowerment of the community of Areais da Ribanceira is more developed in the social domain, ascompared to the legal and economic domains. The threat of losing its territory was the main motivation thatallowed the organization of the community, and several community management activities contributed tothe local empowerment. The organization and mobilization of the community of Areais da Ribanceira arefactors that facilitate the process of creating a Sustainable Development Reserve