PORTRAITS FOR UNESCO FROM GOYAZ CERRADO BIOSPHERE RESERVE

ITS CULTURAL LANDSCAPES AND TERRITORIAL IDENTITIES

Abstract

At Goiás state, the Reserve occupies the most conserved Cerrado’s space and is of great importance for biodiversity. This essay centers upon the cultural landscapes and territorial identities that attach spatial marks by the mans of the appropriation effected by diverse actors and subjects present at Goyaz Cerrado Biosphere Reserve. Cultural landscape is materially concrete and factually perceived by subjects and, in this sense, this object is affectively and culturally assimilated by humans. Simultaneously, territorial identities were searched by the use of typologies. In the investigation, qualitative and quantitative proceedings were used alongside cartography. It is concluded that Goyáz Cerrado Biosphere Reserve, 25 years after its creation, still demands proceedings for its implementation. These cultural landscapes are dynamic and their historicity indicates the precarization of the Biosphere Reserve, contrarily to what Unesco conceived; and, territorial identities are revealing of conflicts and disputes that lowers the values of Resbio for environmental conservation and sustainability.