Método de valoração contingente como ferramenta de educação ambiental na gestão participativa dos recursos pesqueiros da comunidade de Nhaquene, ilha de Inhaca-Maputo

Abstract

This study was carried out in the community of Nhaquene, in the Kanyaka municipal district, in Maputo province. The aim was the use of the contingent environmental valuation method as a tool for environmental education in the participatory management of fishery resources. A questionnaire was applied to 193 families in an estimate of 219 families, to capture the willingness to pay (DAP), to improve the management of the fishery resources. The applied methodology was based on a quantitative approach to analyze the DAP and the socioeconomic and qualitative variables to evaluate the environmental perception of the Nhaquene community. Using the MINITAB 12 statistical program, the binary logistic regression test at 5% of the significance level. According to 41.4% of responding agreed to pay and 59.6% did not agree to contribute to improving the management of fishery resource, since the higher value of the lower DAP is the availability of people to accept contribute participative management of the resource, this is justified by negative tendency of de DAP was performed to determine the DBH, and the influence of the socioeconomic and environmental variables on and DBH, the variables that were shown to be significant in the dynamic in the logistic progression table are the work, the age, the level of schooling and the greater the environmental education, since the lower the level of schooling and the greater environmental perception the probability of people not accepting to pay for the management of the fishing resource, the smaller the age the great the probability of people agree to pay because they have access to school and have a defend level of environmental perception. The use the of contingent valuation method as an environmental education tool will be to great importance, because when assessing an environmental good, it will contribute to the elaboration of policies and the implementation of measures of the regulate the use patterns of natural resource. Decision-making process, were the various actors and institutions can negotiate environmental policy enforcement process, environmental education programs can be designed for the management, protecting and conservation of fisher resource.