Social actors in the deforestation in the Serra do Mar, São Paulo: conflicts of interest between preservation and regional development

• Grant number: 94/00275-7
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: June 01, 1994
• End date: November 30, 1994
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Other specific Sociologies
• Principal Investigator: Daniel Joseph Hogan
• Grantee: Daniel Joseph Hogan
• Host Institution: Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas Ambientais (NEPAM). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the formation of social actors during the negotiation process for the establishment of the reserve in the Atlantic Rainforest biosphere, with emphasis on the case of the Serra do Mar, in the state of São Paulo. It is intended to investigate the possibilities of environmental conservation programs in poor dependent economies. The central hypothesis of the research indicates that any emergent social demand must be incorporated by broad sectors of society in order for them be turned into a government program. In the case of the demand for environmental quality, the alarming indices of poverty end up relegating conservation plans to the second category on official agendas and in the demands of civil society. The solutions for the conservation of the bioma in the Atlantic Rainforest will only be possible and effective if there is greater possible coincidence between the space of legitimization and the field of action of the decisionmaking distances. (AU)