doctoralThesis
O que o manejo do pirarucu pode nos ensinar: aspectos ecológicos, sociais e culturais aplicáveis a múltiplos sistemas socioecológicos
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FREITAS, Carolina Tavares de. O que o manejo do pirarucu pode nos ensinar: aspectos ecológicos, sociais e culturais aplicáveis a múltiplos sistemas socioecológicos. 2019. 117f. Tese (Doutorado em Ecologia) - Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2019.
Autor
Freitas, Carolina Tavares de
Resumen
Socioecological systems (SES) are the complex systems encompassing both the social
(human) and the ecological (biophysical) dimensions. These dimensions are equally important
and function as an interdependent system, in which changes in one dimension affect the other.
For ensuring the long-term sustainability of natural resources management, it is necessary to
guarantee the integrity of the SES from which these resources are part. Therefore, it is
necessary to consider both the biophysical and the human dimensions of this system,
including its social, economic, political and cultural components. Collaborative management
(comanagement) is one of the available tools for reconcile the different dimensions of SES.
Here, the arapaima (Arapaima sp.) comanagement was used as a case study to provide
subsidies and incentives for the development of more effective natural resource management
systems. Three different and complementary spheres were addressed: ecological, social and
cultural. In the first chapter, we focused on the ecological dimension by evaluating the
historical trends of arapaima abundance and size based on the perceptions of 247 fishermen
from 67 communities located in the Juruá and Purus rivers, two major tributaries of the
Amazon River. In the second chapter, we prioritized the social sphere and showed, based on
interviews with 143 women from 54 communities on the Juruá River, that arapaima
comanagement has the potential to promote greater gender equity in fisheries. In the third
chapter, the cultural dimension was prominent as we used literature data to show how
comanagement focusing on culturally important species can be a potential tool to promote
ecological and social benefits, reconciling biodiversity conservation with local welfare.