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Significant advances have been made in conserving the floodplains of the Brazilian Amazon in the last decade. The Mamirauá and Amanã Sustainable Development Reserves (SDRs) in the Middle Solimões are the best examples of success in the implementation and management of sustainable use protected areas. This chapter discusses some of the reasons for their success and the difficulties of applying Mamirauá and Amanã SDRs models elsewhere, using commons theory as a theoretical framework. It also brings to light the main lacunas raised for discussion by the participants at the roundtable Socioenvironmental Conservation Strategies in Protected Areas, as well as the recommendations for socioenvironmental conservation strategies in protected areas on the Amazonian floodplains.
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Still under the influence of the National Congress of Parks in Caracas (1992) and Rio-92 (Naughton-Treves et al. 2005) and of the creation of the Centro Nacional de Desenvolvimento Sustentado das Populações Tradicionais—CNPT (National Centre for the Sustainable Development of Traditional Populations) (see Lobão, in this volume).
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According to Naughton-Treves et al. (2005: 231), more than half of the protected areas in Brazil under state or federal jurisdiction belong to the sustainable use category (IUCN categories III-IV), as opposed to the indirect use categories (I and II). For a critique of the use of the IUCN categories in the creation of protected areas in different countries, see West et al. (2006).
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Adams, C. (2011). Comments on Socioenvironmental Conservation Strategies in Protected Areas of the Amazon Várzea . In: Pinedo-Vasquez, M., Ruffino, M., Padoch, C., Brondízio, E. (eds) The Amazon Várzea . Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0146-5_20
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