Extractive Reserves (Resex) are considered a category of conservation unit for
sustainable use, established by Law nº. 9,985 of July 18, 2000 (Law on the National
System of Conservation Units). Resex are territorial spaces used by traditional
extractive communities, which guarantee their subsistence in extractivism or in the
mixed activity of agro-extractivism. In Brazil, the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity
Conservation (ICMBio) is responsible for managing 324 federal Conservation Units.
Among them is the Ciriaco Extractive Reserve, object of this research, located in the
municipality of Cidelândia in the State of Maranhão, covering the communities: Ciriaco,
Centro do Olímpio, Alto Bonito and Viração. In this context, this thesis aims to verify
which are the strategies of community governance established for the conservation of
natural assets of common use, by the communities of the Extractive Reserve of
Ciriaco, from Ostrom’s eight basic principles to reach solid institutions. To achieve this
aim, documental research was carried out, which analyzed Resex's development
projects. In addition, questionnaires were applied to Community members and to the
members of the Resex Deliberative Council. The results showed that a single model
of community governance for natural assets is not enough to promote the balance and
durability of institutions and socio-environmental and cultural sustainability, essential
in an Extractive Reserve, and that it also contributes to the strengthening of its Social
Capital Community, a very desirable attribute for its development. From this
perspective, the development of a research agenda would contribute to broadening
and deepening points of community governance that require greater clarity, such as:
expanding the principles that indicate the prosperity and sustainability of Extractive
Reserves over time, seeking to meet regional demands (social, environmental and
cultural), to the features of each biome.
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