Ciência Pós-Normal e a gestão de áreas protegidas: Aproximações iniciais com Unidades de Conservação

Abstract

The article tries to expose an initial effort to approach the propositions about Post Normal Science (PNC) and its extended community of pairs with some chosen notions of management of protected areas (PA) in Brazil, especially observing its two main instruments, the management plan and the participative council. On the one hand, the idea of ​​PNC leads to an understanding that scientific knowledge and its validation by a community of peers strictly linked to science alone would not be enough to respond to the increasingly common challenges of a reality - especially social and environmental - unstable, uncertain, complex and sometimes incomprehensible, thus requiring an approximation and dialogue between science and politics. In other hand, management plans are seen as constructions based on articulated scientific knowledge, to a lesser or greater extent, consciously or unconsciously, with essentially political decisions, either by the circumstances in which they are produced or implemented, or because of historical contexts , economic, cultural and social and environmental in which they are realized. The other focussed PA management tool, the participative council, emerges in this reflection as a potential space to shelter the expansion of the community of peers in the elaboration of plans that recognize the complexity of the reality that surrounds the PA. Using a literature review on PNC and based on aspects of the debate on the elaboration of management plans and participaptive councils of PA, the work seeks to identify points of contact between the two discussions, aiming to answer a question: what initial approximations are possible between the PNC proposal and socioal and environmental contexts especially linked to PA management?