Banca de DEFESA: PAULA NORMANDIA MOREIRA BRUMATTI

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STUDENT : PAULA NORMANDIA MOREIRA BRUMATTI
DATE: 28/08/2020
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Google meet: https://meet.google.com/gtz-aqrh-jyx
TITLE:

The mirror of tourism concessions in National Parks in Brazil: a perspective on vulnerabilities.

KEY WORDS:

National Parks; Tourism Concessions; Vulnerability; Neoliberal Conservation.

PAGES: 264
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Turismo
SUMMARY:

Considering the socio-environmental issue, the protected areas become a pre-condition  for the socioeconomic development of contemporary society, which under the sustainability paradigm, assumes tourism as a conservation tool, considering its potential for generating economic and social benefits and appreciation of the environmental and cultural heritage. Tourism concessions in PA, as an institutional arrangement, emerge as an alternative to take advantage of this potential and to distribute benefits, which in practice presents a set of limitations as a tool for sustainable development, considering the political and institutional contexts.  Assuming that concessions are developed from a neoliberal conservation perspective and its contradictions, this research aims to understand how the tourism concessions program in national parks in Brazil can imply in the PA tourist system vulnerability. Based on a theoretical-conceptual and empirical analysis, through a qualitative method approach, the objectives of this research are: develop a conceptual-theoretical framework to systematize the fundamental elements and factors of the PA tourism system vulnerability; understand the historical, political and institutional context of the program; examine the role of the State in promoting tourism and recreation development in Brazilian national parks, identify the main results of the program and its limitations; and relate these components to the elements and factors of the PA tourism system vulnerabilities. The main program limitations represent the difficulties in promoting greater actions for the PA conservation; social empowerment and measure the quality of services and the socio-environmental implications of the tourism development, as a result of the lack of public support which weaken institutional capacity;  management and monitoring problems and the lack of private organizations’ commitment. In turn, these weaknesses are related to the historical, political, and institutional context of the program's evolution, aligned with the neoliberal conservation principles. Considering that PA tourism system vulnerability represents the condition that enhances the system susceptibility to a harm and limits its ability to attract visitors and meet the needs of the tourism chain, including all social actors, and the environmental conservation, as a product of a set of political, institutional, economic, historical-cultural, social and environmental factors; this research points that the main factors related to the progression of vulnerability represent these limitations that emerge from the context of conflicting agendas under a neoliberal sustainability perspective.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - FERNANDO ALMEIDA GARCÍA - UMA
Externo à Instituição - JOÃO PAULO FARIA TASSO - UnB
Presidente - 021.062.389-67 - KERLEI ENIELE SONAGLIO - UnB
Interno - 1513243 - MARCOS ANTONIO LEITE DO NASCIMENTO
Interno - 2806096 - WILKER RICARDO DE MENDONCA NOBREGA