O evento Cost Action Conference que ocorreu nos dias 23, 24 e 25 de Setembro em Bordeaux na França teve como tema a participação de cientistas e stakeholders nos processos de elaboração de políticas públicas florestais. Umas das palestrantes do evento, Silvana Nobre, CEO da Atruim Forest, abordou em sua apresentação o assunto: Processo para determinar áreas prioritárias para a restauração da reserva legal.

1. Nobre, Silvana R.
Zákia, Maria J.
Pereira, Sandro M.
Skorupa, Ladislau A.
Manzatto, Celso
Hamamaura, Caio
Prado, Maria F.
Scarano, Tainã
Bordeaux - France
September - 2015
State of São Paulo – Brazil
Process for determining priority areas
for Legal Reserve restoration.
Orchestrating forest policy making:
Involvement of scientists in political processes

2. Process for determining priority areas
for Legal Reserve restoration
in State of São Paulo - Brazil
Context
The process: Involvement of scientists
Criteria & tools
Results & Conclusion
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)

3. (1) Context
Brazil in numbers
Brazilian population 191 Millions of inhabitants
Total area 851 Million ha
Forest Area 518 Million ha (67%)
Natural Forests 510 Million ha
(> 20.000 species)
Planted Forests (Eucalyptus, Pinus, Teak) 8 Million ha (3 species)
Total Agribusiness 68 Million ha

4. (1) Context
Our Natural Forests
Conservation Units 74 Million ha
Indigenous areas 106 Million ha
Public Forests 290 Million ha
Community Forests 128 Million ha
Public Forests under concession 146.000 ha

5. Public forests in Brazil : 290 million
hectares (34% of the national
territory)
Source: www.florestal.gov.br
Public Forests
Distribution

6. Planted Forests
Distribution

7. Permanent
Preservation
Area
(APP)
Legal Reserve 20%
(LR)
Our Forest Law

10. São Paulo State
Area 24.8 Million ha (3% of Brazil)
(30% of GDP)
Private land 20.5 Million ha (properties sum)
20% of Private land 4.1 Million ha must be LR
Deficit: 2 Million ha
Legal Reserve Deficit from 0.5 to 1 Million ha
Planted Forests 1 Million ha
Sugar Cane 6 Million ha
All Agribusiness in SP 13 Million ha

11. São Paulo State Forest Policy
Section 8, Article 58:
The Department of Environment, with support from Secretariat of Agriculture,
have to indicate priority areas for reforestation with native species for
protection and production, based on the following criteria:
I - increase the connectivity between remnants of native vegetation;
II - soil protection and groundwater resources;
III - consider Conservation Units protection, including Buffer Zones and Sustainable Use;
IV - land-use capacity class;
V - carbon sequestration potential;
VI - natural coverage ratios observed in watersheds.

12. SP Environment Department
went to scientists community and asked for support
Among many other questions
What are the Priority areas to recover?

13. (2) The process: Involvement of scientists
a) Institutional Agreement (Universities & Research Institutes)
b) Scientists & Secretariat agreed on criteria according to policy
c) Scientists:
 developed methodology
 invited stakeholders (4 meetings)
 leaded the meetings
 prepared results to secretariat of environment

14. Institutional
Agreement
(2013 – 2014)
Embrapa
coordination
2 State
Universities
(USP, UNESP)
1 Federal
University
(UFSCAR)
6 Research
Institutes

15. I - Areas to exclude:
• agriculture (sugar-cane; crops in general; high productive pasture)
• any forest plantations,
• suitability for agriculture
II - Selected Criteria
• (C1 & 2) Increase the vegetation cover in water supply basins
• (C3) Increase the vegetation cover in vulnerable areas (possible
contamination of groundwater aquifers)
• (C5) Replace lower productive pasture
• (C4& 6) Promote the connectivity of native vegetation
• (C7) Increase forest cover in areas with LR deficit
• (C8) Decrease the empty of native vegetation
• (C9) Improve wood industry clusters
Degraded Area
&
Low productive pasture
Each criterion
have a map
(3) Criteria & Tools

16. III - Methodology
• Stakeholders should together answer the questions
• Between two at a time, which criterion is better
• Assign weights that define how much more important a criterion
over another
• It should have been an agreement among all stakeholders
• They should have time to discuss and convince each other and build
the table of weights
• Scientists should transform weights into maps

19. C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9
C1 1.00 0.33 0.20 1.00 0.20 3.00 3.00 3.00
C2 1.00 0.33 0.20 1.00 0.20 3.00 3.00 3.00
C3 3.00 3.00 0.33 1.00 0.20 5.00 3.00 5.00
C4 5.00 5.00 3.00 5.00 1.00 5.00 5.00 5.00
C5 1.00 1.00 1.00 0.20 0.33 3.00 3.00 3.00
C6 5.00 5.00 5.00 1.00 3.00 5.00 5.00 5.00
C7 0.33 0.33 0.20 0.20 0.33 0.20 3.00 3.00
C8 0.33 0.33 0.33 0.20 0.33 0.20 0.33 1.00
C9 0.33 0.33 0.20 0.20 0.33 0.20 0.33 1.00
IV - Stakeholders built the table of weights during the meetings

20. Priority Area

22. (4) Results & conclusions
 Different meetings >> different results
 we decided to do more meetings including more diverse
stakeholders.
 The historic context matters >>> Water supply & Economics
 Now we have where we should plant, and we know we have enough
space.

23. (4) Results & conclusions
 The results guided the formulation of one important regulation:
• “Priority class to LR compensation” :
• who has deficit can compensate with who has surplus
 Results guided the calculation of the funds we will need
 Results guided to calculate where we should create industry clusters

24. Industry Cluster Analysis

25. On going projects with scientists support
1. Website under development to support the planting process
2. Negotiation with government funds
3. First Industry Cluster creation – Vale do Paraíba (East of the State)
• Wood products and non-wood (native fruits)
4. New clusters are under analysis
5. Other States are doing the same

26. 6. There is now a “set of tools” to simulate:
New species; new silviculture activities…
7. There is now a “set of tools” to support the negotiation with
development funds
8. The first industrial cluster is under negotiation based on that
scenario analysis
On going projects with scientists support

27. silvana@atriumforest.com
www.atriumforest.com
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