Environmental protection areas in Brazil and conflicts in administration

Environmental Protect Areas (APAs) are one kind of protected areas in Brazil that may be on public or private lands and also allow economic activities development inside it, causing difficulties in its environmental management. Property point is important and restrictions to property rights imposed...

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Published in:Investigaciones geográficas 2001-01 (26), p.181
Main Authors: Nájila Rejanne Alencar Julião Cabral, Mauro Rocha Côrtes, Pereira de Souza, Marcelo
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Subjects:
Conflicts
Economic activities
Environmental management
Environmental protection
Land use
Private lands
Property rights
Protected areas
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Summary:Environmental Protect Areas (APAs) are one kind of protected areas in Brazil that may be on public or private lands and also allow economic activities development inside it, causing difficulties in its environmental management. Property point is important and restrictions to property rights imposed by State, to control land use, make to generate conflicts that need to be understood so that manager system could solve it. This paper discuss environmental management, specially conflicts resulting from property right in APAs, because this protected area category causes interference in right property practice.
ISSN:0213-4691
1989-9890
DOI:10.14198/INGEO2001.26.10