Plano de manejo da Floresta Nacional de Tefé, a gente faz junto!

Abstract

The present article shows the process of participatory elaboration of the Management Plan of Tefé National Forest, located in the Middle Solimões - Amazon, from its four main steps, as follows: construction of Socioeconomic and Environmental Diagnostics, Management Agreement, Mapping and Zoning and management programs. Each of these stages of preparation of the document will be evident from the methodology used, potential and barriers of social participation in the process and large results generated. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the construction process of management tools may prove extremely rich for the expansion and qualification of social participation in the UC management. For this it is necessary to create an environment favorable to the participation of the various actors involved in the process through appropriate methodologies to local realities, multiple languages , establishing a relationship of mutual trust and transparency about the goals and possible outcomes of the process as a whole. Thus, the building moments of these management tools can generate results that go far beyond the official documents, strengthening the management of UC over the long term from the expanding the understanding of local actors about what is and how the unit works and thereby strengthening its Participatory Management.