Sustainable economic production in conservation units

An analysis of the Viruá National Park regarding civilizing practices for maintaining the Amazonian biodiversity of the Pantanal in Roraima

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https://doi.org/10.29327/233099.18.1-8

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Unidade de Conservação, Figurações, Turismo ecológico, Sustentabilidade, Cultura, Amazônia

Abstract

This article is based on fieldwork and adopts an Eliasian approach to its analysis. The objective is to highlight the configurations for understanding human-nature interactions within sustainable management models, aiming to improve the use of Conservation Units for the consolidation of community-based tourism, at the Viruá National Park Conservation Unit in the state of Roraima. This is an important natural heritage site, a transition zone, and the maintenance of the logic of ecosystem and biodiversity protection. Incorporated into the context, and within this perception and interpretation of configurations and networks of functional interdependencies, they are established as the main alternatives for advances in income generation and social justice, as well as their proven role as a mechanism for driving growth in the human development index in harmony, balance, and respect for nature, reducing negative impacts and combating degradation and biopiracy, which so plague the Amazon rainforest due to anthropogenic actions.

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Shigeaki Ueki Alves da Paixão, Universidade Federal do Amazonas

Member of the study, research, and social observatory group: Gender, Politics, and Power - GEPOS - PPGSCA - IFCHS - Federal University of Amazonas - UFAM. Member of the research group on Geopolitics and Modernization in the Northern Amazon - UFRR. Member of the research group of the Laboratory of Contemporary Places and Spaces: Journalism, Migrations, and Audiovisual - UFRR. Member of the Research Group on Interdisciplinary Studies in the Context of Indigenous Peoples: Education, Health, and Territory, Federal University of Roraima - UFRR. Member of the Research Group on Interdisciplinarity, Communication & Public Policies - UFRR. A professor in the Public School System of the State of Roraima since 2002, he began teaching in different forms of temporary institutional affiliation until his approval through a public competition in 2009. He is currently a Senior Professor A, in the Teaching Career, at the State Secretariat of Education and Sports - SEED, of the Government of the State of Roraima. He is a Tourism Technician on the staff of the Government of the State of Roraima, working in the Head of Tourism Dissemination - DITUR, as Chief of the Division of Special Projects and Programs (11/2004 to 02/2006 - Stage I). Approved by public competition for the position of Tourism Technician in 2005 and made permanent through performance corresponding to a probationary evaluation. He is Head of the Tourism Dissemination Division (03/2006 - Stage II). From February 2013 to December 2014, he served as Director of the Official Tourism Agency of the State Government of Roraima, assuming the position of Director of the Tourism Department. He holds a degree in Letters with a specialization in Portuguese and English and corresponding literatures from the Federal University of Roraima (2007); a degree in Social Communication - Specialization in Advertising and Propaganda from the Faculdade Atual da Amazônia (2007); a degree in Tourism Technology Manager with an emphasis on Ecotourism from the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology - IFRR (2010); a degree in International Relations from UFRR (2016); graduating in Pedagogy from the Open University of Brazil through IFAM and UNIVIRR (2017); Specialization in Methodology of Teaching Portuguese and Foreign Languages ​​through the UNINTER Educational Group (2012); Master in Geography from PPGGEO/UFRR (2014). Director of the Official Tourism Agency of the Government of the State of Roraima, having held the position from February 2013 to December 2014 as Director of the Tourism Department. Columnist for Amazônia Magazine and the BV NEWS website, writing the Vida Roraimeira column. Member of the Editorial Board of the Scientific Journal SOMANLU of the PPGSCAIFCHSUFAM. He served as a State Councilor Member for Culture - CEC RR. Full Member of the Advisory Board of the Viruá Caracaraí National Park in Roraima through ICMBio - Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation. Alternate Member of the Municipal Environmental Council - CONSEMMA of the Municipality of Boa Vista - RR. Full Member of the Fashion Sector and Alternate Member of the Plenary of the National Council for Sectoral Policies of the Ministry of Culture of Brazil for the period 2016-2017. Elected councilor, in the jurisdiction of CRA - RR (currently licensed), Effective Regional Councilor, with a term of 4 (four) years, from 04.07.2017 to 31.12.2020. PhD in Society and Culture in the Amazon through the Postgraduate Program Society and Culture in the Amazon-PPGSCA / IFCHS, from the Federal University of Amazonas - UFAM.

Gláucio Campos Gomes de Matos, Universidade Federal do Amazonas

He holds a degree in Physical Education from the Federal University of Amazonas (1986) and a Master's and PhD in Physical Education from the Faculty of Physical Education of the State University of Campinas/Unicamp (2008). He is a retired professor from the Federal University of Amazonas. His experience includes adaptation and inventions for people with disabilities; human adaptation to the hot and humid climate in Amazonian communities. He researches sociocultural activities in Amazonian communities: animal (hunting, fishing) and plant extraction, land cultivation, and livestock raising; leisure and the environment in riverside communities; and the relationship between man and the Amazonian environment. He studies Norbert Elias's Theory: Civilizing Processes, power, figuration, habitus, technization, individualization in the social process, social differentiation, and long-term social processes in the Amazon. He published *Ethos and Figurations in the Amazonian Hinterland* (2015); Western/European Civilizing Process, Technization and Modus Vivendi in the Amazon/2023; Organized the Collection Reflections from Norbert Elias and Tribute to Johan Goudsblom/2023. Organized the Collection Norbert Elias to Think about the Amazon/2024; Leader of the Research Group Civilizing Processes in Panamazônia/CNPQ.

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PAIXÃO, S. U. A. da; MATOS, G. C. G. de. Sustainable economic production in conservation units: An analysis of the Viruá National Park regarding civilizing practices for maintaining the Amazonian biodiversity of the Pantanal in Roraima. Somanlu: Journal of Amazonian Studies, Manaus, v. 18, n. 01, p. 132–155, 2018. DOI: 10.29327/233099.18.1-8. Disponível em: //www.periodicos.ufam.edu.br/index.php/somanlu/article/view/4970. Acesso em: 23 nov. 2025.

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Vol. 18 No. 01 (2018): Revista Somanlu: 18 anos da História de Consolidação da Pesquisa Cientifica na Amazônia.

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