Le délicat apprentissage d’une préservation conjointe des écosystèmes et des sociétés (Maranhão, Brésil)

Abstract

Protéger la nature, est-ce protéger la société ?Le délicat apprentissage d'une préservation conjointe des écosystèmes et des sociétés (Maranhão, Brésil) The difficult learning of an integrated preservation of ecosystems and societies (Maranhão, Brésil) Denis Chartier et Stéphanie Nasuti Édition électronique URL : http://gc.revues.org/3593

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“…2. From the 1980s onwards, rubber-tappers, supported by diverse movements, demanded extractive settlements, that is, areas for the exploitation of forest products where they could live and work without fearing expulsion and de-forestation (Chartier and Nasuti 2009). The murder of the emblematic fi gure of Chico Mendes accelerated the process of institutionalization of this demand, and in the early 1990s the fi rst so-called 'extractive reserve' ('resex') was created as one of the fi rst models of 'sustainable development'.…”

“…The Brazilian government recognized the 'resex' offi cially as an instrument of territorial policy and extended it from rubber-tappers to all sorts of 'extractivists'. In this way, Brazil nut collectors, babassu coconut breakers, artisanal fi shermen and mollusc pickers, among others (Chartier and Nasuti 2009;Barreto Filho 2006), now referred to as 'traditional peoples', were granted long-term usufruct rights for collectively and sustainably managing natural resources (Pace 2004). 3.…”