Propriedades fundiárias e o risco de incêndios em unidades de conservação de Guarapari-ES

Abstract

This paper discusses the relationships established between the landed interests and the forest fires that repeatedly occur in the state park Paulo Cesar Vinha and Environmental Protection Area Setiba in Guarapari, Espirito Santo. The question that guides the research revolves around the reasons why the study area to suffer lot of forest fires and also seeks to understand how land ownership and property interests operate in this process. This work concludes from crossing various information, there is a direct relationship between land owners, real estate companies and realtors and fires that occur in the Environmental Protection Area Setiba and Park Paulo Cesar Vinha. The interpretation process takes into account the sense that permeates land ownership in contemporary as well as protected areas. It appears that, overall, the rentier interests are potentially dangerous when it comes to fires, given that the bond between the owner and the place is mediated mainly by the profit motive. It is also noticed that most of the time, the surrounding populations do not relate to the Park and they see neither the Environmental Protection Area as conservation space. Associated with this, the relationship of the park with the environment occurs only in order to monitor, making the always strange locals, and ultimately potentially dangerous. However, it appears that the places that most catch fire are allotted areas and less dense, which suggests that they are not locals the real problems, but the grounds that, because of a rentier rationality, function as a store of value and capital fictitious potentially profitable, with a view to future land appreciation. Finally, work understands that the actions of the Park and the State Program for Prevention and Fire Prevention (PREVINES) doesn’t have attacked the problem of fires in essence, that would be land and property issue, but always focus on fighting a fire already assumed inexorable. Such conformism always generates spending on equipment, as well as fighting large fires events, directly affecting the public coffers, the environment and people's lives.