Banca de DEFESA: FÁTIMA AURILANE DE AGUIAR LIMA

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : FÁTIMA AURILANE DE AGUIAR LIMA
DATE: 31/08/2020
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Vídeo conferência
TITLE:

MANAGEMENT EFFECTIVENESS OF PROTECTED AREAS IN SETENTRIONAL SERTANEJA DEPRESSION AND ITS EFFECTS ON CAATINGA CONSERVATION

KEY WORDS:

Effectiveness analysis. Management of protected areas. Brazilian semiarid.

PAGES: 155
BIG AREA: Outra
AREA: Ciências Ambientais
SUMMARY:

Protected Areas (PA) are important tools for maintaining biodiversity worldwide. For that, it is necessary that these PA understand territories representative of the country's biomes, as well as have a good quality of management. A biome that needs attention regarding thestudy of its protected areas is the Caatinga, because it is exclusively Brazilian, because it is still little known and valued and because it has a small percentage of protected territory. In order to better understand the conservation effectiveness status of PA in this biome, it is necessary to evaluate its management. Thus, the aforementioned thesis aims to analyze the management effectiveness of federal PA, ESEC de Aiuaba (CE), ESEC do Seridó (RN), FLONA de Sobral (CE) and FLONA de Açu (RN) of the Ecoregion of Depression Sertaneja Northern. To assess this management effectiveness, the Rapid Assessment and Prioritization of Protected Area Management (RAPPAM) methodology was applied. This analysis was carried out based on 3 objectives, each corresponding to an article that composes this thesis. Chapter 1 aimed to identify the indicators of the RAPPAM method most related to the management effectiveness of the four UCs analyzed. For that, data were collected from the application of the methodology in the 2005/2006 cycles; 2010 (data obtained from the reports of ICMBio and WWF-BRASIL (2012)) and 2019/2020 (the researcher applied the methodology in this period) and a Principal Component Analysis was made from these data. Chapter 2 aimed to assess the pressures and threats that permeate four federal UCs of the Northern Country Depression. For this, the data collected from RAPPAM 2019/2020 were used, making an assessment of the pressures and threats existing in the PA, listing aspects of pressure criticality and threat criticality, pressure trend and threat probability. Chapter 3 aimed to investigate the management effectiveness index of the four federal UCs mentioned above, using the RAPPAM methodology, in the 2019/2020 cycle. The data obtained led to the analysis of effectiveness based on a survey of pressures and threats, the context in which the PA are inserted (Biological Importance, Socioeconomic Importance and Vulnerability), in addition to determining the General Management Effectiveness Index obtained from analysis of the elements: Planning, Inputs, Processes and Results. In general, the two Ecological Stations (ESECs), PA of Integral Protection (IP), showed high effectiveness, while the two National Forests (FLONAs), PA of Sustainable Use (US), showed Average effectiveness. The main indicators (modules) that contributed to this result were: Management Planning, Research, Evaluation and Monitoring; Design and Planning of the Area, in addition to the Decision-Making Process. The main pressures and threats identified were: hunting, exotic and invasive species, semi-natural processes and pasture. Finally, it can be considered that the main problems found in PA are related to the element Inputs, which comprises Human and Financial Resources, Communication and Information, in addition to Infrastructure. In this sense, improving the conditions of the Inputs, directly impacts the planning, evaluation, monitoring and decision-making activities, which in turn contribute to the effective management of these areas. With these results in mind, priority strategies can be outlined to ensure the conservation capacity of the Caatinga UCs in the Northern Depression region analyzed in this research.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 350231 - MAGDI AHMED IBRAHIM ALOUFA
Externo ao Programa - 2966354 - DIOGENES FELIX DA SILVA COSTA
Externo à Instituição - EDSON VICENTE DA SILVA - UFC
Externo à Instituição - ILTON ARAUJO SOARES - IDEMA

Externo à Instituição - RAMIRO GUSTAVO VALERA CAMACHO - UERN