Avaliação das pressões e ameaças ambientais sobre o Parque Nacional de Ubajara-Ceará: uma perspectiva da efetividade de gestão

Abstract

The increasing pressures and threats, mainly, due to the social and economic factors and inefficient management are placing the biodiversity of the Brazilian National Parks under risk. The identification and evaluation of those factors make them essential to execute its management plan and biodiversity preservation. Taking the case of the National Park of Ubajara, Ceará, this research has as objective assess the management effectiveness under the context of main pressures and threats existing in the Park. The approach used in this study followed the RAPPAM method, which is composed of five modules: (i) Profile; (ii) Context; (iii) Planning; (iv) Inputs; and, (v) Procedures. Based on the evaluations done by the technicians working in the PNU, the results showed that the index of management effectiveness for the Park is moderately satisfactory, since more than forty percent of the analyzed factors showed index of effectiveness from unsatisfactory to poorly satisfactory.