Reestruturação do sistema de licenciamento ambiental em Minas Gerais: uma análise da unidade regional colegiada - Norte de Minas

Abstract

The process of environmental licencing constitutes an administrative act which must attend the government for evens enterpreunment either benefiting from natural resources or those borrowing from the environment. The present research aims mainly at analysing the re-structuring of this process in Minas Gerais, due to the installation of the Unidades Regionais Colegiadas – URC´s in 2003. The analysis will be based on the dynamics of their meetings anda also on the perception of the social agents specifically in an area: the worth of Minas Gerais. The re-structuring is also analysed on the basis of hypothesusubg if this licencing enhances the ‘Sustained Development’, required by the ‘Adequacy Paradigm’. For this purpose, four methodilogical procedures were used: i)bibliografical research; ii) documental research; iii) direct observation of those meetings; iv) semi-structured interviews with the social agluts present in the scenery of this study. The study is organized in four chapters following the approach of analysing that the ‘re-structuring’ of the political procedure of authorizing the intervenence in the environmental is prevalent in the concept of the environmental development under the logic of the ‘mitigation game’. The first chapter conceptualizer the process of decentralization of the public policies and their conotation. The second presents analytical approaches to environmental development through the ‘Adequacy Paradigm’ and the ‘Environmental Justice’. In the third chapter the set of the environmental policies of the state of Minas Gerais is contextualized from a historical point-of-view. And, last of all, the fourth chapter analyses the percption the social agents have in the process of licencing. The study finishes by considering the issues analysed in relation to the given hypothesis.