Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: FELIPE ALEXANDRE SANTOS VIEIRA

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STUDENT : FELIPE ALEXANDRE SANTOS VIEIRA
DATE: 14/12/2022
TIME: 08:00
LOCAL: online
TITLE:

The effect of sustainable use protected areas on the perception of Cultural
Ecosystem Services and Disservices and social equity in the Amazon rainforest

KEY WORDS:

The effect of sustainable use protected areas on the perception of Cultural
Ecosystem Services and Disservices and social equity in the Amazon rainforest

PAGES: 15
BIG AREA: Ciências Biológicas
AREA: Biologia Geral
SUMMARY:

Cultural ecosystem services (CES) accessed through human-nature interactions
contribute diverse benefits to individuals and societies, including enhanced security,
basic material for good life, physical and mental health and good social relations
(Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005). It follows that natural areas can be managed
to increase or maximize the provision of CES, with the aim of improving human well-
being while simultaneously meeting conservation goals.
To date, the most important scientific contributions for the classification of
ecosystems’ services, including the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (Millennium
Ecosystem Assessment, 2005), the Common International Classification of Ecosystem
Services (Haines-Young and Potschin, 2018) and the Economics of Ecosystems and
Biodiversity (TEEB, 2010) have clearly under-considered how nature sometimes acts
against humans. Now, a huge part of the ecosystem services scientific community is
contributing to fill this gap by exploring the negative influence of nature on human
thrives, often framing it as ecosystem disservices: ecosystem services that are harmful
to human well-being (Blanco et al., 2019; Dunn, 2010; Echeverri et al., 2020, 2019).
Likewise, the nature's contributions to people (NCP) framework (created by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) has recently
broadened the framing of the ‘stock-and-flow’ of ecosystem services to include both
beneficial and detrimental contributions of living nature, highlighting historically
under-represented social sciences and indigenous people’s perspectives (Díaz et al.,
2018). While the need for such a conceptual shift has been widely debated (cf. Braat,
2018; Faith, 2018; Kadykalo et al., 2019; Maes et al., 2018), the ecosystem disservices
concept is becoming an important part of contemporary conservation discourse.
Indeed, the recent coronavirus pandemic provides a dramatic example of how nature
can generate enormous disservices to humanity, directly and indirectly decreasing
human well-being and impacting economies across the world (Arthi and Parman, 2021;
Dawel et al., 2020) .
The balance between ecosystem services and disservices is of particular importance
for communities living within or adjacent to protected areas (PAs). In the Brazilian
amazon, for example, sustainable use PAs (where local communities are allowed to
extract natural resources) may generate a wide range of cultural and economic
benefits whilst contributing to the recovery of endangered animal populations
(Campos-Silva and Peres, 2016) and yet they are often threatened by politicians that
see them as opportunity costs in the way of economic development (Keles et al., 2020;
Pack et al., 2016) . Thus, arguments to justify increasing public investment in
Amazonian PAs should foresee counter arguments (“push-back”) from landowners and
associated stakeholders. The land-holder and agricultural lobby has a huge influence
on Brazilian politics and decision making, and their support is arguably critical for the
successful implementation of pro-environmental policies in the Amazon (Garret et al.
2021). In this sense, environmental evaluations should ideally weigh benefits and costs
that ecosystems generate to local people as a first step towards strengthening
arguments in favour of conservation in Brazil.
The relation between sustainable use protected areas and CES/CED (Cultural
Ecosystem Disservices) perceived by local residents in rural communities is clearly

under-explored in the scientific literature. Here, we aim to assess the influence of two
amazonian sustainable-use protected areas on the perception of CES and CED.
Specifically, we conducted surveys with individuals from 30 communities inside and
outside the Protected Areas and used our data to respond to the following questions:
do people inside and outside sustainable use protected areas perceive CES and CED
differently? Do socioeconomic characteristics influence the perception of CES and CED
in and out sustainable use protected areas? Our study takes place in the Medio Jurua
Extractive Reserve and the Uacari Sustainable Development Reserve; two well-
established PAs in the Amazon Rainforest that are often described as successful
examples of community-based management of natural resources, generating clearly
positive outcomes to both people and nature (Campos-Silva and Peres, 2016; Campos-
Silva et al., 2021, 2018).

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