| Summary | RESEX areas are a form of protected area (MPA) aimed at democratizing access to natural resources through participatory comanagement with both social and environmental goals. The RESEX program aims to bring marginalized traditional populations that depend on local natural resources into national development processes by empowering them to participate in national government supported formal management of RESEX areas. The RESEX goals include the sustainable management of resources to maintain local livelihoods while simultaneously stewarding biodiversity conservation. |
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| Project | SESMAD |
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| Subtype | Formal Governance System |
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| Sector | Forests, Marine protected areas, Fisheries (Stock-specific) |
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| Begin Date | 2009 |
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| End Date | Current |
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| Governance Scale | State-based policy |
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| Governance System Description | Participatory co-management |
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| Explanation | The Caeté-Taperaçú RESEX was created in 2005 as a comanaged marine extractive reserve in which the rights to extract resources are given to an association of users to collectively develop rules. The comanagement rights apply exclusively within the RESEX boundaries. To address identified user conflicts relating to the local mangroves, local village residents were offered comanagement rights to address conflicts under the RESEX legal framework, then administered by the Conselho Nacional de Populacoes Tradicionais (National Council of Traditional Populations, CNPT), the predecessor of ICMBio. Since 1998, extensive diagnostic assessments have been conducted in the area by the local university, the rural farmers union, and CNPT/IBAMA. These contributed to the initiation of the RESEX in 2005. Despite these earlier efforts, the initial diagnostic phase to assess the status of the area or the current management plan is stated in the official document as not having begun until 2009. The final management plan was only published in 2012, stating the goal of “...conservation, preservation and sustainable use of natural resources...to improve the living conditions and enhancement of traditional culture for people...residing in and/or around [the RESEX]”. |
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| Governance Trigger | slow continuous change |
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| Type Of Formal Governance | Management plan |
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| Mpa Internal Natural Boundaries | High (3) |
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| Mpa Migratory Life History | Not Applicable |
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| Mpa Threats To Migratory Sp | Not Applicable |
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| Mpa Threats | Over-harvesting of mangrove reserouces and erosion |
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| Explanation | Over-harvesting mangrove crab and wood. Erosion from development and sea-level rise |
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| Governance Knowledge Use | ["", "Scientific knowledge", "Local/traditional knowledge"] |
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| Pa Car Principles | Partially (2) |
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| Centralization | Somewhat decentralized (2) |
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| Distance To Markets | Between 10-100km (2) |
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| Horizontal Coordination | Informal |
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| Mpa Iucn Somewhat Strict Zones | Missing |
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| Mpa Iucn Sustainable Zones | Missing |
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| Mpa Budget | Missing |
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| Mpa Connectivity | Yes (3) |
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| Mpa Migratory Threats And Redux | Not Applicable |
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| Mpa Motivation | ["", "Other"] |
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| Mpa Primary Goal (In Practice) | ["", "Biodiversity conservation", "Fisheries improvement", "Social goals"] |
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| Mpa Protection | ["", "Other"] |
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| Metric Diversity | High: Many metrics for success (3) |
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| Pa Iucn Strict Zones | Missing |
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| Social Ecological Fit | Low (1) |
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| Mpa Migratory Benefit | Not Applicable |
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| Governance System Spatial Extent | 420 |
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