Costa Rodrigues, Carolina

da Silveira Junior, Wanderley Jorge

de Moura, Aloysio Souza

Fontes, Marco Aurélio Leite

Morelli, Mariana Caroline Moreira

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Focus Group as a tool 13 
Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade 
Biodiversidade Brasileira, 10(1): 13, 2020 
 
 
Focus Group as a tool for a participatory construction and 
development of Integrated Fire Management strategies  
 
 
Carolina Costa Rodrigues1, Wanderley Jorge da Silveira Junior1, Aloysio Souza de Moura1, 
Mariana Caroline Moreira Morelli1 e Marco Aurélio Leite Fontes1 
 
 
1Federal University of Lavras (UFLA), Lavras, Brazil.  
Contact email: carolinacrd@gmail.com, jjjuniorjf@hotmail.com, thraupidaelo@yahoo.com.br, 
marianaengflor@gmail.com, fontes@ufla.br 
 
 
 
 
ABSTRACT – Integrated Fire Management comprises a contemporary approach to fire 
management that combines sociocultural realities and ecosystems ecological needs with 
technological approaches to propose prescribed fires, thus preventing, monitoring and 
combating megafires. In this context, it is necessary to construct an integration between 
social actors related to the fire, as there are often divergences in perceptions and conflict 
regarding the fire use. The Focus Group is a strategy for collecting information from a 
focus theme that privileges a space for interaction between the group and the researcher / 
facilitator, which encourages participants to listen and share experiences. This study aimed 
to verify the experience of the Focus Group held in Carrancas, Minas Gerais, Brazil, in 
which are present different social actors aware of the occurrences and practices of fire 
management, in order to identify the difficulties and raise proposals about the fire use in 
natural areas management and conservation. Nine social actors participated, including 
traditional farmers, brigade members, people linked to tourism and public authorities. 
Participatory Rapid Diagnosis techniques were used, such as timeline, historical graph and 
participatory mapping, generating relaxation and involvement in activities. The dialogue 
made it possible to identify the traditional practice of controlled burning in rural ecosystems 
and the cultural changes that have contributed to the increase of megafires in recent years. 
The timeline and characterization of the largest fires, the survey of susceptible areas, and 
actions that should be prioritized for conservation of natural ecosystems were performed. 
The different fire scenarios (burnings and megafires) highlighted the different perceptions 
of social actors about their use, by the conflict between traditional farmers and brigade 
members, especially regarding fire management issues. The Focus Group proved to be 
effective in providing dialogue and greater interaction between social actors, reducing 
existing conflicts, generating reflection and subsidies to the construction of knowledge and 
management strategies, fire management and conservation of natural ecosystems. 
Keywords: fire ethnoecology, methodology, participatory actions 
 


Focus Group as a tool for a participatory construction and development of Integrated Fire Management strategies

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Focus Group as a tool for a participatory construction and development of Integrated Fire Management strategies

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