Property registration in the western region of Pará: difficulties encountered in sustainable land regularization and the (im)possibilities of mitigation

Abstract

This article has a general objective to identify the obstacles that the public authorities face to effectively carry out the sustainable land  regularization in the western region of Pará and mitigation proposals. The specific objectives are:  to identify the laws that have regulated, throughout history, land tenure regularization in Pará; identify the main factors that have prevented authorities from effectively overseeing land; point out the possible legal and administrative measures necessary, indicating environmental, economic and social, positive and negative aspects of land title regularization. Therefore, with regard to the methodology, in addition to the bibliographic survey, a questionnaire was applied to five public servants who work with the land registry in the western region of Pará. The theoretical framework is essentially based on Harvey (1996), Castells (1980) and Albuquerque (2000). At the end of this work, it is concluded that the main difficulty, in most municipalities in this region, is the lack of interest of municipal administrations in executing and developing public policies for regularization, issuance of titles, registration and mapping, according to the law. Furthermore, thinking about this scenario implies working with favorable policies that guarantee the stability and social, cultural, political and economic equity of human communities.