Support for the implementation of protected areas in the Center-North Catarinense Region

Abstract

The coastal region of the central-north catarinense must awake to the opportunity and need for deploymentof protected areas, because few units were created and most of them were not demarcated, withoutland regularization and adoption of infrastructure and appropriate labour. Still, other places have potentialand/or need for protection, increasing the quantity and quality of protected areas. The process involvingthe creation provided to the effectiveness of these units is governed by the National and State System ofProtected Areas. Therefore, requiring technical-legal knowledge and political-administrative proceduresand becoming necessary assistance to social actors concerned and involved, and an adequate conceptual basement on the subject, the awakening to the participation of actors is a way to stimulate and encouragethe consolidation of the process. This project was served by the organization of a database, holding localmeetings and workshops and preparing lists of problems and opportunities found in each case of action.The techniques and strategies used in each case varied according to the characteristics in the same stagewhere they were. The project worked in eight cases, in five (5) municipalities and had thirty-five (35) institutionsinvolved among public bodies, non-governmental organizations and institutions of education, as wellas eighteen (18) students participating, in addition to representatives of communities, who participated atdifferent times.