Reservas da Biosfera instituídas em território brasileiro

regime jurídico e correlações com outras modalidades de espaços territoriais especialmente protegidos

Abstract

Since the impacts of the environmental crisis became more noticeable on a global level, the UN has developed strategies to combat its effects. Among these main actions, there’s the Man and Biosphere Program, carried out within the scope of UNESCO, which branches out in the creation of the “World Network of Biosphere Reserves”. Biosphere Reserves (BRs) are specially protected territorial spaces to preserve the environment and provide the right conditions for the sustainable development of local communities. Although the Biosphere Reserves are structured on a basis of general rules established by international law instruments, their implementation and management take place necessarily in the context of the National States that participate in the MaB program. The main purpose of this work is to identify the legal regime to which they are subject and what are the legal consequences of BRs in the Brazilian legal system, specifically what concerns its correlations with other specially protected territorial spaces modalities. Therefore, biographic research is carried out in which the main internal rules and international treaties concerning BRs are analyzed. The effectiveness of the Biosphere Reserves established in Brazilian territory demands an integrated correlation with several other management mechanisms and territorial planning provided for in Brazilian law.