Gestão ambiental municipal: estudo de caso de Volta Redonda/RJ, no período 2005-2012.

Abstract

The municipal environmental management sine qua non condition is effective for improving the quality of life of city dwellers and the preservation and / or conservation of our environmental resources, the municipal government is largely responsible for the coordination, articulation, control, monitoring and supervision of all actions and measures in the jurisdiction of its territory aimed at a ecologically balanced environment, necessary and essential to our survival and coexistence with other living beings. In this context, it is urgent discussion on the environmental policy adopted by the city of Volta Redonda to equip their actions with a view to sustainable urban development, embarking for examining these actions take effect and to comply with the Brown Agenda. Decentralization of environmental management is another subject matter, in view of the pressing need for the municipality to assume their responsibility in protecting the environment, organizing your System Municipal Environment, becoming independent and knowledgeable of the peculiarities of its geographical space becoming more autonomous and less dependent on the State and Union. Environmental management is part of a broader process of land management, an aspect for which has not been given due importance and lack of coordination and synergy between the agencies comprising the SISNAMA demonstrates the importance of strengthening the city in environmental policy framework. The research proposed here aims to review existing legal instruments of urban environmental management used by the city of Volta Redonda, as well as the performance of the agencies comprising the Municipal Environment System, by measuring the activities and interpretation of results.