O Conflito sobre os usos da propriedade rural face os imperativos da legislação ambiental: estudo sobre as representações de atores sociais acerca da questão das áreas de preservação permanente e reserva legal/Pelotas, RS

Abstract

The study aims to analyze the representations of the social actors in the city of Pelotas, RS, about the use of the natural resources, considering the emergence of a new juridical mark that regularizes farming activities, and conservationist or environmental sustainability objectives. Also, inquires if it is possible to conciliate farmers interest, their practices and representations about the property of the productive resources with the society effort to preserve the integrity of the agroecosystems. The referential and theoretical support of this research is the Moscovici´s Theory of the Social Representations (1961). A qualitative research was done, whit eleven individual semi structured interviews. The wide objective of the analysis was to look for sense and comprehension. As data were collected by semi structured interviews, the most adequate analysis was the one of the content and, more specific, the analysis of the assessment, which try to reveal the social representations or the judgments of the actors by the examination of certain constructive elements of the speech. The content analysis of the interviews revealed that, in spite of the diversity of the visions of the social actors who were interviewed about the persistence of the resquicious of the old conception of property use in absolute terms in one side, and the contemporary way of their submission to collective interests of environmental preservation and sustainability at the other side, the conflict, that is clearly perceptive between those positions, is passing through a mutual adjustment by the adaptation of the environmental legislation, the sustainability exigencies and social practices, originating new theories and living practices, with reciprocal tolerance of the consciences