Percepção ambiental da preservação de áreas protegidas frente à legislação em assentamentos da reforma agrária de Abelardo Luz - SC

Abstract

Debates about environmental issues became interdisciplinary since the reflections of human being harmful interference in the environment are presented contemporaneously in a swift and aggressive way for society as a whole. This way, many researchers have focused their efforts on understanding the dynamics of relationship between man and nature, as well as what can be modified in order to minimize the harmful actions and its results. Proportionally to the increasing environmental degradation is the increasing of legislative framework that aims to avoid environment harmful practices. However, the increasing in the number of laws and sanctions contained on them does not seem to have solved the problem. The suggested hypothesis states that the level of personal environmental perception is what interferes in the effective preservation. This way, the present research aims to innovate in the study of the environmental issue in order to verify the environmental perception of the settled people on area of preserved native forest in two agrarian reform settlements located in Abelardo Luz, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Besides knowing if areas of preserved native forest are being in fact preserved, the purpose of this study is the analysis related to the motivation that moves settled people in order to preservate: if by the means of the environmental legislation obligation or by internal factors, like the self-determination by need to preserv comprehension, what is called “perception” in this study. After collecting, collating, analyzing and summarizing data it was clear that a significant part of settled people keeps its areas of native forest as a result of environmental perception exclusively, while a small number of people justified doing that due to legal requirement, resulting in the hypothesis verification.