Maria Helena Guimarães vence prémio Bartolomeu da Associação Portuguesa de Desenvolvimento Regional
Foi vencedora do Prémio Bartolomeu, durante o 15º Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Desenvolvimento Regional, de 6 a 11 de Julho de 2009, na Universidade Piaget na cidade da Praia, Cabo Verde, o trabalho de Maria Helena Guimarães, do Gabinete de Conservação e Gestão da Natureza do Departamento de Ciências Agrárias da Universidade dos Açores, com o título: The use of Q-methodology to obtain stakeholder Discourses on the future development of Ria Formosa Coastal zone, south of Portugal.
O Prémio Bartolomeu é atribuído a cientistas com menos de 33 anos no dia 15 de Julho de cada ano, que apresentem um trabalho individual em sessões do Congresso da APDR. O prémio é atribuído pela apreciação de um júri constituído pelo director da Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Regionais e mais dois cientistas por ele nomeados. Os critérios de apreciação são: a coerência conceptual, a relevância para a ciência regional e o impacto no desenvolvimento regional.
Resumo
The lagoon system of Ria Formosa is important for both nature conservation and economic development. Its important ecological characteristics have been reemphasized by its protection by national law since and its inclusion in international conservation instruments. In the last decades, increasing threats to the area have appeared. These threats are identified in the different management plans which include this area; however institutional complexity has delayed the development of effective solutions.
Effectiveness cannot be easily measured, since different stakeholders use different criteria as the basis of their opinion. An effective strategy for nature conservation necessarily involves using stakeholder analysis. Without these steps, policies may fail to gain sufficient political and local support to be made into rules, and even if they are, they will often lack enough support among local people to be effective. The purpose of this study is to investigate discourses concerning future management of Ria Formosa coastal zone. This article focuses on stakeholder analysis with Q methodology. The objective is to understand both the identities and desires of local stakeholders in their own terms and categories, instead of making assumptions about their problems and needs. In February 2007, we did thirty interviews among 10 different groups of stakeholders. From these interviews, 31 statements were taken as being the most common discourse. Using these statements a questionnaire was performed to 22 new individuals. Participants were asked to sort the 31 statements according to how important or not they were to them. These results were then analyzed using factor analysis.
This study revealed four distinct discourses on the future development of this area: environmental education and capacity building; fisheries and ecotourism development; bureaucracy, land planning and fisherman conditions; environmental quality, integration and organization. Theses Discourses are analyzed in detail and compared with the new action program in Ria Formosa, POLIS 2008. It concludes that the action planned in POLIS 2008 covers most of the concerns that stakeholders identified. The major conflict area identified concerns demolition actions of part of the houses existing in some of the barrier island of the lagoon system. In order to prevent conflict situation, communication and information strategies should be developed.
(In Cabo Verde - Redes de Desenvolvimento Regional)
The lagoon system of Ria Formosa is important for both nature conservation and economic development. Its important ecological characteristics have been reemphasized by its protection by national law since and its inclusion in international conservation instruments. In the last decades, increasing threats to the area have appeared. These threats are identified in the different management plans which include this area; however institutional complexity has delayed the development of effective solutions.
Effectiveness cannot be easily measured, since different stakeholders use different criteria as the basis of their opinion. An effective strategy for nature conservation necessarily involves using stakeholder analysis. Without these steps, policies may fail to gain sufficient political and local support to be made into rules, and even if they are, they will often lack enough support among local people to be effective. The purpose of this study is to investigate discourses concerning future management of Ria Formosa coastal zone. This article focuses on stakeholder analysis with Q methodology. The objective is to understand both the identities and desires of local stakeholders in their own terms and categories, instead of making assumptions about their problems and needs. In February 2007, we did thirty interviews among 10 different groups of stakeholders. From these interviews, 31 statements were taken as being the most common discourse. Using these statements a questionnaire was performed to 22 new individuals. Participants were asked to sort the 31 statements according to how important or not they were to them. These results were then analyzed using factor analysis.
This study revealed four distinct discourses on the future development of this area: environmental education and capacity building; fisheries and ecotourism development; bureaucracy, land planning and fisherman conditions; environmental quality, integration and organization. Theses Discourses are analyzed in detail and compared with the new action program in Ria Formosa, POLIS 2008. It concludes that the action planned in POLIS 2008 covers most of the concerns that stakeholders identified. The major conflict area identified concerns demolition actions of part of the houses existing in some of the barrier island of the lagoon system. In order to prevent conflict situation, communication and information strategies should be developed.
(In Cabo Verde - Redes de Desenvolvimento Regional)
Etiquetas: APDR, comunicações, ecoturismo, Educação Ambiental, Gestão e Conservação da Natureza, participação pública, pescas, prémio
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