Forest management in the State of Maranhão, beyond decentralization.

Authors

  • José das Dores de Sá Rocha Fundação Universidade Federal de Rondônia
  • José Arimatéa Silva UFRRJ
  • Vitor Afonso Hoeflich UFPR
  • Francisco Carneiro Barreto Campello Ministério do Meio Ambiente

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/rf.v45i2.27078

Keywords:

Forest Management model, decentralization, Northeast of Brazil.

Abstract

The institutions in the Northeastern states that assumed forest management were diagnosed by the Ministry of Environment in 2009. Due to this regional study, this paper aims to: i) characterize the fundamentals of policy and forest management in the state of Maranhão, ii) analyze the current model of state forest management. Data were obtained from secondary sources on the World Wide Web and through questionnaires in two seminars held within the state. The fundamentals of policy and forest management were characterized on the basis of legal instruments, administrative and economic sympathetic to the issue. The forest management model was analyzed based on the model of excellence in public management, adapted for the study. The main conclusions were: conflicts of legal jurisdiction in the state of forest management, and between SEAGRO and SEMA.SEMA is responsible for forest management policy and Maranhão, a Superintendent of Forest Management, not yet institutionalized, was in practice the operating forest management, planning, execution and control of forest management were evaluated, in general, an unsatisfactory situation, both the public and internal SEMA by its users.

Keywords: Forest Management model; decentralization; Northeast of Brazil.

Author Biography

José das Dores de Sá Rocha, Fundação Universidade Federal de Rondônia

Professo de Economia Florestal, Política e Legislação e Florestal, Planejamento e Administração Florestal

Departamento de Engenharia Florestal

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Published

2014-09-29

How to Cite

de Sá Rocha, J. das D., Silva, J. A., Hoeflich, V. A., & Campello, F. C. B. (2014). Forest management in the State of Maranhão, beyond decentralization. Floresta, 45(2), 433–446. https://doi.org/10.5380/rf.v45i2.27078

Issue

Vol. 45 No. 2 (2015)

Section

Artigos de Opinião

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