Abstract
This article discusses the challenges of managing conservation areas; in search of new institutional instruments and mechanisms that make effective conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems in protected areas. The management of conservation areas in some countries has been made from a growing demand for involvement of stakeholders and communities in decision-making in the process of managing natural resources. There are three issues surrounding the debate on participatory management of conservation areas, namely: the distribution of authority and responsibilities in the decision-making process; distribution of benefits and sustainability (ecological, social and economic). The main reasons that justify the management of these areas with the participation of communities are: the restriction on access to resources can compromise the food security of families living there and; it is a prerequisite for communities to be able to carry out their activities, to set up joint enterprises with them, or other forms of management that make their participation effective. The analytical approach was based on the theory of natural resource management and complemented by recent contributions from research in the areas of political sociology, poverty and the environment on the phenomenon of "participation". The local dimension, although the integrative synthesis between the natural and the human, historically and spatially located, makes essential a participatory management of conservation areas in countries such as Mozambique, because it allows the understanding and transformation of social relations that are carried out from a certain mode of production and organization established in a defined space of protection and conservation.
Highlights
Conservation areas are spaces that are created and established with the aim of preserving ecosystems and biodiversity, natural resources and cultural values of nature, through the establishment of the legal and normative framework and institutionalization of other specific instruments of management and participation
The establishment of these, has generated intense conflicts that sometimes reach great proportions, between the Management of Conservation Areas with Participation of Communities in Mozambique populations living in these places and their survival depends on the use of the resources that are intended to preserve and the authorities that manage these areas
The typology of this research and empirical theoretical research, which, for Garcia and Fadel (2012) should combine the theoretical approaches with the collected information making an analysis from the observation of reality. This objective research method contributes to absorb the knowledge generated by local communities, which to some extent can be used to solve the problems identified by the social environment
Summary
Conservation areas are spaces that are created and established with the aim of preserving ecosystems and biodiversity, natural resources and cultural values of nature, through the establishment of the legal and normative framework and institutionalization of other specific instruments of management and participation. These areas are created and administered in the different territorial echelons of the public administration. Environmental conflicts are configured when social actors defend different logics for the management of collective assets of common use
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