Analysis of the principle of social participation in the organization of federal managing council of conservation and mosaics: reality and challenges

Abstract

The study aims to contribute to the improvement of Brazilian environmental policy through the analysis of the inclusion, whether or not the principle of social participation in the organization of management councils of Conservation and Federal Mosaics and their characteristics. Verify how it expresses the principle of social participation of public and private actors in the federal legal devices that implement the National System of Conservation Areas, as well as in management councils based on a methodology of qualitative and quantitative survey and analysis of Ordinances 113 from January 2000 to January 2011, available on the websites of environmental agencies of ICMBio and IBAMA, the relative composition of management councils. It appears that participation in the Councils of the actors is not based on an equal composition, prevailing public actors. We concluded the work by asking whether the managing councils have the ability to represent changes in the institutional environment in various regions of the country, especially when we know that the central issue of biodiversity conservation and sustainable use is the challenge to implement appropriate management or face the management processes of the human occupation of the spaces in economic and archaic social structures last for centuries.