Gestão compartilhada da reserva de desenvolvimento sustentável Mamirauá: contextos e reflexos sociais de um modelo

Abstract

The Sustainable Development Reservation RDS Mamirauá, located in the State of Amazonas, constitute its largest conservation unit established in a flood ecosystem, representing advances in policy and actions destined for the creation and implantation of protected areas in the Amazon, beginning with the appearance of a model that has marked the involving and social participation process in making decisions about the protection of natural resources and the shared management or co-management of the reservation referred to, between the state government and the Mamirauá Institute of Sustainable Development IDSM. The goal of this research was to analyze the shared management process implanted in the Mamirauá RDS and its relation to the fulfillment of objectives of creation in the reservation referred to and of the proposed measures in its Management Plan, in the time period of 2001 to 2007. To achieve this, the methods used were bibliographic and documental research, from the assessment and analysis of official documents and reports of the co-management contract (2001-2007) elaborated by IDSM. Although the model is considered successful nation-wide, it currently foresees, explicitly, the focus on feeding and carrying out scientific research and technological development activities, extension in the environmental protection areas with sustainable management of wood and fishery, besides promoting citizenship. It can be seen that the original sustainable development proposition has become, mainly, a means of stimulating scientific research, ignoring the contribution of the populations that use the reservation, relegating the condition of the study object to them, and not as an important part of guarantying the sustainability of the project. This way, the research as developed on the Mamirauá RDS should necessarily fulfill the formulation and implantation of social technology that represents the practical result of the projects and the construction of conditions favorable to improving the living conditions of the population and the fulfillment of the objectives of existence of the RDS and IDSM itself, which will require the state s utmost attention in truly serving the socio-environmental interests.