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SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM AND TROPICAL FOREST: disputes around preservation in southern brazil
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Social innovation ecosystems;
Araucaria rainforest
Sustainable development

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Gestão Socioambiental

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Gestão Ambiental

Autores

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1 - André Souza Noronha Nepomuceno
FUNDAÇÃO UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DE SANTA CATARINA (UDESC) - ESAG
2 - Graziela Dias Alperstedt
FUNDAÇÃO UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DE SANTA CATARINA (UDESC) - Centro de Ciências da Administração e Socioeconômicas

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The Araucaria rainforest is an ecosystem included in the Atlantic Forest Biome as recognized by the Brazilian Federal Law 11428/2006. It is also recognized as a tropical forest ecoregion located mainly in the southern states of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, and Paraná, and can also be found sparsely in the mountainous region (called “Serrana”) of the states of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Minas Gerais. The intensive and predatory logging of the Mixed Ombrophillous Forest (MOF), especially in the second half of the twentieth century, resulted in a severe reduction of the area originally.
This study looks at the social innovation ecosystem promoted by the initiative “Araucária+”. which involves a diversity of actors in the preservation of the threatened Araucaria rainforest in Santa Catarina, using a pragmatic methodology (Andion et al., 2017) to understand the complexity involved in it. The objective is to explore the controversies between the actors mapped under the Araucária + project in order to understand issues that prevent a faster advance in the preservation of the araucaria forest in southern Brazil.
The debate about the dynamics of social innovation process and the conditions under which they occur is strongly emphasized in the literature. This debate highlight the role that institutional forces play in the process of social and behavioral change in society and economy (Howaldt and Schwarz, 2010). Forests play a very important role in providing ecosystem services that are essential for human well-being. They are also important in terms of achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations Agenda 2030 (Katila et al, 2017). In this context, it is essential to study.
This research is characterized as a qualitative case study (STAKE, 2005, p.436), descriptive and interpretive. Documents, semi-structured interviews and participant observation were used as data sources, with the help of a field diary. The case under study was the Araucária + Social Innovation Ecosystem (EISA +), an initiative idealized and developed in a partnership between the CERTI Research Foundation and the Boticário Group Foundation for Nature Protection, aiming at the conservation of the Araucaria Forest and sustainable development of the communities associated.
Based on the theoretical analysis about SIEs, some categories were defined to describe the types of actors and roles performed in the SIEA+ using a categorization process that allowed to rebuild this public arena. By analyzing the practices associated with the actors involved in the case, we identified the main controversies that help to comprehend the limits and advances of the social innovation ecosystem. The results reveal two main controversies surrounding forest preservation: (1) the lack of recognition of the need for forest preservation and, (2) the dilemma of livestock production.
Theoretically, based on pragmatic sociology arising from the theories of action, this study contributes to a more complex view of the discussion around the achievement of sustainable development objectives, revealing dependence on real practices and understanding of social actors, in contrast to a normative or social regularity. Likewise, it clarifies the existing controversies around preservation, as there is not even an understanding among practically about this need.
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