Strategies for territorial regulation and use of common resources: challenges to shared management in the Amanã Sustainable Development Reserve – AM

Abstract

Starting from the participant observation developed in community meetings with the presence of management institutions that work in the Amanã Sustainable Development Reserve (RDSA), in the Middle Solimões, Amazonas, this text addresses the challenges of shared management from conflicts associated with dispute situations between residents of the Conservation Unit, indigenous and non-indigenous, for the control of access and use of fishing resources in interface with the demand for demarcation of Indigenous Land. In this context, free interviews were conducted with leaders and residents of the Joacaca and Boa União sectors to understand the different motivations of the conflict, highlighting those related to interests and strategies to ensure exclusive control of resources, in an already protected and used territory given to the collective. The interest in the description and analysis of the cases aims to know how such conflicts are linked to locally differentiated ways of ordering resource use and regulating territories, thus identifying effects and challenges generated by shared management tools and practices.