Como proprietários rurais afetam a conservação de pequenos elementos da paisagem

Abstract

This thesis presents a structure in three chapters, which consists of a bibliographic review and two scientific articles. The review includes the presentation of small forest landscape elements (PEPs) and environmental services provided by them, as well as ecological concepts of forest landscape and the new Brazilian Forest Code (Law No. 12,651, May 25, 2012). In the first article it was intended to understand which socioeconomic factors of rural real estate and management adopted by owners conditioned the conservation of PEPs, and to analyze how socioeconomic conditions are determinant in the intention of the owners of conserving PEPs and how the intention to conserve affected the form of management adopted by the owners. The second article aimed to understand which factors of perception of rural owners are determinant in the conservation of PEPs, and to analyze how the intention of the owners of preserving the PEPs was conditioned by their perception. In both articles, we use linear models (LMMS and LMS), as well as exploratory analysis. In the first article, in general, socio-economic conditions were the factors that most affected the conservation and intention of conserving PEPs in the landscape. Compared to them, the forms of management of these elements had only a secondary importance. In the second article, in general, the perception of the owners that PEPs are important for water conservation was the factor that most influenced their conservation in the landscape, however the perception that PEPs are important for decreasing temperature It was the factor that most influenced the intention to keep them in the rural property. The perception that PEPs are important for animal welfare, owners' view of their future in the property and can provide important products and/or resources for subsistence have been secondary. Our results demonstrate the occurrence of interaction between rural properties located in the Atlantic Forest of the southern state of Minas Gerais - Southeast of Brazil and owners with the PEPs affecting their conservation. Thus, these findings highlight the need for holistic approaches to the conservation of Atlantic tropical forest PEPs.