Direito e etnoconservação: estudo da participação na gestão ambiental da RDS Estadual Ponta do Tubarão - RN

Given the prediction of the Federal Constitution of 1988 about the need to establish some areas to be especially protected, it was published the Law No. 9.985/00, which established the National System of Conservation Units. Several aspects make these units differ from one another, one of them being the possibility of presence of even traditional human populations inside the area to be protected. In case of allowing these people to continue in the area, it still must be provided their participation in the management of the new space. Management councils show up, then, as a specific way of social and political participation. This way, from an overview of legal norms and the doctrine that are relevant to the topic, It is aimed to make a legal and theoretical survey about the process of traditional populations permanence inside Conservation Units, with aspects linked to ethnoconservation and, therefore, to participation in environmental management of these specially protected spaces

El potencial de la agricultura familiar y los espacios protegidos : Lineamientos para el diseño de políticas públicas

Hay una cantidad de explotaciones familiares que aún perduran y se resisten a desaparecer, desplegando variadas y novedosas estrategias productivas, sociales y culturales. Precisamente, el objetivo de este artículo es presentar dos casos de explotaciones familiares en contextos muy diferentes: una ubicada en el Dpto. Banda de la provincia de Santiago del Estero y la otra en el Partido de Saladillo, provincia de Buenos Aires, donde la diversidad y regularidad de las estrategias adoptadas les han permitido persistir y desarrollar estrategias alternativas al modelo vigente. El despliegue del potencial productivo, ecológico y social de la agricultura familiar requiere de la construcción de espacios protegidos. Así, los espacios protegidos se presentan como un argumento sobre la potencialidad de la agricultura familiar y su capacidad de generar un desarrollo rural alternativo, en el que la pequeña producción tenga un rol activo en la construcción de este nuevo diseño. No obstante, en la actualidad, los espacios protegidos no son más que una hipótesis y una declaración de las posibilidades sobre la forma en la que el mundo agrario podría estructurarse con base en la pequeña producción. La sistematización de los casos comienza a mostrar caminos y pautas posibles de aprendizajes para esa construcción

El potencial de la agricultura familiar y los espacios protegidos : Lineamientos para el diseño de políticas públicas

Hay una cantidad de explotaciones familiares que aún perduran y se resisten a desaparecer, desplegando variadas y novedosas estrategias productivas, sociales y culturales. Precisamente, el objetivo de este artículo es presentar dos casos de explotaciones familiares en contextos muy diferentes: una ubicada en el Dpto. Banda de la provincia de Santiago del Estero y la otra en el Partido de Saladillo, provincia de Buenos Aires, donde la diversidad y regularidad de las estrategias adoptadas les han permitido persistir y desarrollar estrategias alternativas al modelo vigente. El despliegue del potencial productivo, ecológico y social de la agricultura familiar requiere de la construcción de espacios protegidos. Así, los espacios protegidos se presentan como un argumento sobre la potencialidad de la agricultura familiar y su capacidad de generar un desarrollo rural alternativo, en el que la pequeña producción tenga un rol activo en la construcción de este nuevo diseño. No obstante, en la actualidad, los espacios protegidos no son más que una hipótesis y una declaración de las posibilidades sobre la forma en la que el mundo agrario podría estructurarse con base en la pequeña producción. La sistematización de los casos comienza a mostrar caminos y pautas posibles de aprendizajes para esa construcción

El potencial de la agricultura familiar y los espacios protegidos : Lineamientos para el diseño de políticas públicas

Hay una cantidad de explotaciones familiares que aún perduran y se resisten a desaparecer, desplegando variadas y novedosas estrategias productivas, sociales y culturales. Precisamente, el objetivo de este artículo es presentar dos casos de explotaciones familiares en contextos muy diferentes: una ubicada en el Dpto. Banda de la provincia de Santiago del Estero y la otra en el Partido de Saladillo, provincia de Buenos Aires, donde la diversidad y regularidad de las estrategias adoptadas les han permitido persistir y desarrollar estrategias alternativas al modelo vigente. El despliegue del potencial productivo, ecológico y social de la agricultura familiar requiere de la construcción de espacios protegidos. Así, los espacios protegidos se presentan como un argumento sobre la potencialidad de la agricultura familiar y su capacidad de generar un desarrollo rural alternativo, en el que la pequeña producción tenga un rol activo en la construcción de este nuevo diseño. No obstante, en la actualidad, los espacios protegidos no son más que una hipótesis y una declaración de las posibilidades sobre la forma en la que el mundo agrario podría estructurarse con base en la pequeña producción. La sistematización de los casos comienza a mostrar caminos y pautas posibles de aprendizajes para esa construcción

Location of bioelectricity plants in the Madrid Community based on triticale crop: a multicriteria methodology

This paper presents a work whose objective is, first, to quantify the potential of the triticale biomass existing in each of the agricultural regions in the Madrid Community through a crop simulation model based on regression techniques and multiple correlation. Second, a methodology for defining which area has the best conditions for the installation of electricity plants from biomass has been described and applied. The study used a methodology based on compromise programming in a discrete multicriteria decision method (MDM) context. To make a ranking, the following criteria were taken into account: biomass potential, electric power infrastructure, road networks, protected spaces, and urban nuclei surfaces. The results indicate that, in the case of the Madrid Community, the Campiña region is the most suitable for setting up plants powered by biomass. A minimum of 17,339.9 tons of triticale will be needed to satisfy the requirements of a 2.2 MW power plant. The minimum range of action for obtaining the biomass necessary in Campiña region would be 6.6 km around the municipality of Algete, based on Geographic Information Systems. The total biomass which could be made available in considering this range in this region would be 18,430.68 t.

Territorial and demographic aspects of the Networks of Protected Natural Areas of Castilla-La Mancha: 1978-2014

The Autonomous Region of Castilla-La Mancha develops from the approval of the Spanish Constitution a whole executive and legislative branch to implement its policies on environmental protection. The new legislation (Law 9/1999, of 26 May) has pursued the conservation and the integral protection of the natural elements of the territory demanding to new criteria as such the environmental quality of ecosystems or the exceptional landscape. The spread and the declaration of new natural spaces have caused a double geographical and territorial model. First, natural spaces located in rural mountainous areas with depopulation and aging problems. And second, natural spaces situated in areas densely populated

What happens at the gap between knowledge and practice? Spaces of encounter and misencounter between environmental scientists and local people

Researchers studying processes of global environmental change are increasingly interested in their work having impacts that go beyond academia to influence policy and management. Recent scholarship in the conservation sciences has pointed to the existence of a research-action gap and has proposed various solutions for overcoming it. However, most of these studies have been limited to the spaces of dissemination, where the science has already been done and is then to be passed over to users of the information. Much less attention has been paid to encounters that occur between scientists and nonscientists during the practice of doing scientific research, especially in situations that include everyday roles of labor and styles of communication (i.e., fieldwork). This paper builds on theories of contact that have examined encounters and relations between different groups and cultures in diverse settings. I use quantitative and qualitative evidence from Madidi National Park, Bolivia, including an analysis of past research in the protected area, as well as interviews (N = 137) and workshops and focus groups (N = 12) with local inhabitants, scientists, and park guards. The study demonstrates the significance of currently unacknowledged or undervalued components of the research-action gap, such as power, respect, and recognition, to develop a relational and reciprocal notion of impact. I explain why, within such spaces of encounter or misencounter between scientists and local people, knowledge can be exchanged or hidden away, worldviews can be expanded or further entrenched, and scientific research can be welcomed or rejected.

Brucite Microbialites in Living Coral Skeletons: Indicators of Extreme Microenvironments in Shallow-Marine Settings

Brucite [Mg(OH)2] microbialites occur in vacated interseptal spaces of living scleractinian coral colonies (Acropora, Pocillopora, Porites) from subtidal and intertidal settings in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, and subtidal Montastraea from the Florida Keys, United States. Brucite encrusts microbial filaments of endobionts (i.e., fungi, green algae, cyanobacteria) growing under organic biofilms; the brucite distribution is patchy both within interseptal spaces and within coralla. Although brucite is undersaturated in seawater, its precipitation was apparently induced in the corals by lowered pCO2 and increased pH within microenvironments protected by microbial biofilms. The occurrence of brucite in shallow-marine settings highlights the importance of microenvironments in the formation and early diagenesis of marine carbonates. Significantly, the brucite precipitates discovered in microenvironments in these corals show that early diagenetic products do not necessarily reflect ambient seawater chemistry. Errors in environmental interpretation may arise where unidentified precipitates occur in microenvironments in skeletal carbonates that are subsequently utilized as geochemical seawater proxies.

MiLK: Transforming everyday places into dynamic learning spaces with mobile and web technologies

This paper explores how game authoring tools can teach processes that transform everyday places into engaging learning spaces. It discusses the motivation inherent in playing games and creating games for others, and how this stimulates an iterative process of creation and reflection and evokes a natural desire to engage in learning. The use of MiLK at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens is offered as a case in point. MiLK is an authoring tool that allows students and teachers to create and share SMS games for mobile phones. A group of South Australian high school students used MiLK to play a game, create their own games and play each other’s games during a day at the gardens. This paper details the learning processes involved in these activities and how the students, without prompting, reflected on their learning, conducted peer assessment, and engaged in a two-way discussion with their teacher about new technologies and their implications for learning. The paper concludes with a discussion of the needs and requirements of 21st century learners and how MiLK can support constructivist and connectivist teaching methods that engage learners and will produce an appropriately skilled future workforce.

Designing learning spaces for (partially) online lives : recombinant architecture

The notion of recombinant architecture signals a loosening of spatial connections between physical and digital-online environments (Mitchell, 1996; 2000; 2003). Such an idea also points to the transformative nature of the designing approaches concerned with the creation of spaces where bits meet bodies to fulfil human needs and desires and, at the same time, pursuing those human dimensions of space and place which are so important to our senses of belonging, physical comfort and amenity. This paper proposes that recombinant spaces and places draw on familiar architectural forms and functions and on the transforming functions of digital-online modes. Perspectives, approaches and resources outlined in the paper support designing and re-designing enterprises and aim to stimulate discussion in the Digital Environments strand of this online conference: 'Under Construction: a world without walls'.