Teses em 2014

In addition to biodiversity: human dimensions of marine conservation in two regions of South America

Author: Francisco Javier Leiva Araos
Advisor: Lucia da Costa Ferreira
Thesis defended in: 10/10/2014
Banking: Alexander Turra, Daniel Quiroz Larrea, Luiz Carlos Beduschi Son, Valeriano Mendes Ferreira Costa

In recent decades, the creation and implementation of Marine Protected Areas have been intensified in the various oceans of the world. In response to the crisis Environmental produced by over-exploitation of fish stocks, pollution of coastal areas, the expansion of urban agglomerations areas coastal and impacts of global warming, the Marine Protected Areas aparacem as the key tool to mitigate human impacts and promote marine and coastal sustainability. However, the conflicts caused by the imposition of protected areas in areas used by multiple users and the realization of the failure of many Marine Protected Areas on the effective conservation of biodiversity, reveal the importance the human dimensions of marine conservation. In light of this research problem, this doctoral thesis aims to analyze the process decision defining creation and implentação two Marine Protected Areas in South America: the Navidad Municipality of the Central Coast of
Chile and the North Coast of São Paulo in Brazil. The survey results demonstrate the emergence of environmental arenas for conservation Navy with the purpose of building rules to regulate the multiple uses of natural resources and promote sustainability of coastal areas. These arenas play a key role in the disclosure of conflicts and the promotion of social pacts, highlighted the scope and limits of democratic process experienced in both countries. In addition to biodiversity, it proves that the marine conservation represents a unique opportunity to redirect the path of unsustainability so far traveled, as well as to try new ways of doing democracy.

 

Keywords: Áreas Marinhas Protegidas; Dimensões Humanas; Processo Decisório Ambiental; América do Sul