Universidade Estadual Paulista “Julio de Mesquita Filho” Campus Experimental de Ourinhos

1. Conflicts with lumber companies Conflicts with lumber companies SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN BRAZILIAN AMAZÔNIA - A STUDY OF WHAT HAPPENED IN LÁBREA - AMAZON STATE (BRAZIL). Luciene Cristina RISSO – Professor of Geography Course – UNESP - Ourinhos – SP- Brazil. Email: luciene@ourinhos.unesp.br. Phone: 55-1433025700. Financial support: FUNDUNESP. Universidade Estadual Paulista “Julio de Mesquita Filho” Campus Experimental de Ourinhos ABSTRACT Each people, each culture has a differentiated way to appropriate to the geographic space, constructing it social representations and territories/landscape identities, forming the cultural landscape. In the Brazilian Amazônia, the landscape is fruit of the relation between society and Nature. There are aboriginal communities and traditional communities, as “ribeirinhos” and “seringueiros, which their survival is related to natural resources that the Amazonian forest offers. However, the Amazonian occupation forms, in time, come directly affecting (in a negative way) the peoples of the forest. The aboriginal community object of this study - the etnia Apurinã - lives in the region of the medium Purus river, tributary of the right edge of the Amazon River, since century XIX. They possess a direct relation with the Nature and are not isolated of this historical process. The fight for the territory is a reality, because the indians face constant conflicts with lumber companies, among others threats. Our boarding analyzes the Amazonian landscape, through the study of case realized with the aboriginal community Apurinã of Igarapé Mucuim (AM). Cassava flour Aboriginal community Apurinã of Igarapé Mucuim (AM). Native village Results Wich respect the Apurinã society and their environment, we conclude that the community have characteristics of sustainable community and it is come to their vision of the world that provides a singular relationship with the Nature. Certainly, these characteristics will be kept exactly ahead of the interventions and technological innovations that they can suffer, in the case of the community maintain their values. By this way, we ratify that what keep a sustainable community are, exactly, the symbolic values, the cosmovision. But, it is standed out necessity of efforts in the direction to brake the environment deforestation and the impacts in the neighborhood, and in Amazônia as a whole. Proposals To contain the deforestation it will be necessary a series of public politics based on the understanding concerning that problematic conjunct, and, in a second moment, create incentive to the economic forms preservation groups in the whole country, avoiding that the amazon’s borders are totally reached by the capitalist exploration (whose first objective is the profit and the satisfaction of the international market) and insert the indigenous lands as strategic areas of environmental conservation.