EXCHANGE OF KNOWLEDGES FOR A PARTICIPATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Abstract

The globalization in its neoliberal aspect is presented as the unique economic option to reach the development, but a more critical look reveals that is a fable that hides a socially excluding system for a growing majority of the global population and with negative consequences on environment. In front of anti-globalization acts, the capitalism appropriates itself of the environmentalist slogans, but gets only a bit more “green” without questioning the structural roots of the environmental problems. Nevertheless, the progress of the new technologies of information allows to get heard the voice of the excluded, among them, the traditional populations. In the environmental debate, the conservationism is marking points with the official recognition to integrate the traditional populations in policies of environmental protection thanks to their traditional knowledge. The processes of participation should consider the differences of perception of nature by the local populations and promote the autonomy of these ones. In the Bay of Iguape, the extrativist reserve (resex) has a Deliberative Counsel, but this sphere is not adequate for planning and management of natural resources. For this, it is proposed, through the realization of workshops in the area, the creation of an association of users of the resex, tools more adapted to potentialize the power of the users and manage the quotidian life of the resex.