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Historically, the establishment of Protected Areas (UC's), part of Brazilian environmental policy, has constituted a face of the conflictive relationship between traditional peasant and indigenous communities and urban-industrial society UC's were implanted, especially from the 1950s, on territories historically occupied by traditional and original populations and became another factor in transforming the territoriality of these communities, which already suffered from the advance of the agricultural frontier and the modernizing project of the period. The struggle for territory, associated with a part of the environmental movement, led to the conquest of some rights, including access to land, through protected areas of sustainable use. However, environmental policy has been used to solve territorial issues and has therefore been a mediator of the territorialities of peasant communities. In this article we discuss how the establishment of protected areas tends to replace land policies, analyzing the contradictions that arise from the mediation of access to the traditional territory for environmental conservation, and we argue that this trend has been constituting at the same time a strategy for maintenance of the Brazilian agrarian structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present research intents at reviewing the environmental movement within an unfinished modernity, studying the peculiarities of the phenomenon and the incorporation of everyday life in the diffusion of environmental issues. The proposal is to discuss the history of environmentalism in this socio-historical context, to then understand the relevance and possibilities in the communicative processes and then to proceed with specific examples that can illustrate the relationship of the environmental movement with everyday life in a society in which the postmodern condition highlights a still unfinished modernity, which deserves an attention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]