Fatores que afetam o apoio de residentes à implantação de projetos ambientais em assentamentos rurais

Abstract

Rural settlements are recognized as the result of the struggle for land, with prospects of generating production, income, housing and decent and sustainable working conditions. In these places, agricultural production processes have been the subject of studies in recent decades because of the importance of agriculture as a practice for the economic development of a community. In this perspective, the objective of this study was to investigate factors affecting settler in the internalization process of environmental practices within agricultural production, among them, to analyze the existence of the relationship between place attachment, costs and benefits as factors capable of influencing the implementation of environmental projects in rural settlements. The present study was carried out in the rural settlements Recantos I, II and III, located in Lagoa Salgada site, a rural micro-region in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, with a total area of ​​1180 hectares and 91 families settled. The study was conducted from February to July 2017, in which 120 local residents were interviewed. Results showed that the variables used to characterize the dimension Benefits of the implementation of environmental projects were correlated with the resident's support, indicating that the perception occurs that the implementation of environmental projects in rural settlements can bring many benefits in terms of quality of life for people and environmental protection, which could provide greater sustainability to productive activity. No correlation was observed between the variables of Costs dimension with the resident´s support to the implantation of environmental projects in rural settlements.