Atores sociais e política ambiental urbana do Município de Mossoró/RN pelo prisma das cartografias sociais analíticas

It starts with the understanding that the relationship between society / nature is largely problematic in a context of socio-environmental crisis. In this context, we use the principle of hope to plan and work out new ways of understanding social reality, the relationship between science and alternative knowledge. The research is to investigate how the actors influence the social construction of urban environmental policy of the city of Mossoró / RN with reference to the processes of implementing the Master Plan and Agenda 21 of the municipality. The hypothesis of this research is that the Environmental Policy in Mossley has a normative character that is expressed primarily in the creation of an institutional political framework to manage environmental issues involving so incidental and or functional society participation mossoroense. Thus questioned who are the actors that build environmental policy Mossoró / RN. The specific objectives of this research are: Identify the environmental dimension of the Master Plan Agenda 21 articulated Mossoró / RN mapping information from the managers, engineers and members of the Municipal Environment and Municipal Council of Cities on the operation of urban environmental policy mossoroense and how it is performed by the Manager of Environmental Management in conjunction with the Department of Environment and Territorial Development (SEDETMA) and Executive Management of Urban Development. As a methodology, we used the method of the sociology of absences and emergencies in conjunction with the ecology of knowledge and productivity. It is a qualitative research and documentary, which was used as the Master Plan documents Mossoró / RN, minutes of meetings of boards and complementarity were carried out 12 semi-structured interviews with managers and directors of the Urban Environmental Policy of the Municipality of Mossoró / RN. They used also the social analytical or thematic maps for the translation of the dialogue among social partners, managers and directors who make the Environmental Policy Council. We conclude that these dialogues and experiences point to the construction of an environmental policy more participatory and effective, committed to individual and collective transformation of society mossoroense

Avaliação de impacto ambiental e gestão dos recursos natuarias no estuário Apodi Mossoró, nordeste do Brasil

The aim of this study is to investigate the eco-environmental vulnerability, its changes, and its causes to develop a management system for application of eco-environmental vulnerability and risk assessment in the Apodi-Mossory estuary, Northeast Brazil. This analysis is focused on the interference of the landscape conditions, and its changes, due to the following factors: the oil and natural gas industry, tropical fruits industry, shrimp farms, marine salt industry, occupation of the sensitive areas; demand for land, vegetation degradation, siltation in rivers, severe flooding, sea level rise (SLR), coastal dynamics, low and flat topography, high ecological value and tourism in the region and the rapid growth of urbanization. Conventional and remote sensing data were analyzed using modeling techniques based on ArcGIS, ER-Mapper, ERDAS Imagine and ENVI software. Digital images were initially processed by Principal Component Analysis and transformation of the maximum fraction of noise, and then all bands were normalized to reduce errors caused by bands of different sizes. They were integrated in a Geographic Information System analysis to detect changes, to generate digital elevation models, geomorphic indices and other variables of the study area. A three band color combination of multispectral bands was used to monitor changes of land and vegetation cover from 1986 to 2009. This task also included the analysis of various secondary data, such as field data, socioeconomic data, environmental data and prospects growth. The main objective of this study was to improve our understanding of eco-environmental vulnerability and risk assessment; it´s causes basically show the intensity, its distribution and human-environment effect on the ecosystem, and identify the high and low sensitive areas and area of inundation due to future SLR, and the loss of land due to coastal erosion in the Apodi-Mossoró estuary in order to establish a strategy for sustainable land use. The developed model includes some basic factors such as geology, geomorphology, soils, land use / land cover, vegetation cover, slope, topography and hydrology. The numerical results indicate that 9.86% of total study area was under very high vulnerability, 29.12% high vulnerability, 52.90% moderate vulnerability and 2.23% were in the category of very low vulnerability. The analysis indicates that 216.1 km² and 362.8 km² area flooded on 1m and 10m in sea levels respectively. The sectors most affected were residential, industrial and recreational areas, agricultural land, and ecosystems of high environmental sensitivity. The results showed that changes in eco-environmental vulnerability have a significant impact on the sustainable development of the RN state, since the indicator is a function of sensitivity, exposure and status in relation to a level of damage. The model were presented as a tool to assist in indexing vulnerability in order to optimize actions and assess the implications of decisions makers and policies regarding the management of coastal and estuarine areas. In this context aspects such as population growth, degradation of vegetation, land use / land cover, amount and type of industrialization, SLR and government policies for environmental protection were considered the main factors that affect the eco-environmental changes over the last three decades in the Apodi-Mossoró estuary.

Gestão Sustentável da água: um estudo da conscientização ambiental em atividades residenciais urbanas

The search for sustainable solutions through an appropriate environmental administration of the available natural resources, that comes from encounter to the aspirations of preservation of the environment and of the human being, in way to diagnose and to solve the environmental and social problems with the smallest possible impact to the nature and the man, it is the great challenge, so much for that generation, as for the future generations. The study of the environmental problems of the water and the participation and the social actors' environmental understanding as a whole, interferes in the field of the thematic environmental international, contemplating the strategic need of an appropriate administration of that very natural one, through a program returned to the diagnosis of the problems and in the search of compatible maintainable solutions, in a social and environmental politics of planning and environmental education, centered above all in the citizen's voice , user of that system. The present thesis she seeks to study the problem of the maintainable administration of the water, focusing the participation and the citizen's environmental understanding in the use of that very natural one for urban residential activities, in what concerns the approach and analyses of variables that treat of the measurement of general knowledge and you adapt, sense of community of the access to the means of information and of the attitudes and environmental behaviors, besides the variables of partner-demographic characterization or personal identification of the interviewed ones of an exploratory research of the type " survey ", accomplished through a stratified aleatory sampling, being the strata each one of the 4 (four) Political-Administrative Areas of the Natal city, having happened the collection of the data in the period of february to april/2002. The methodology used in this work it constitutes in the application of questionnaires with scales of the type Likert to measure the echo-varied of the study, besides a partner-demographic scale for the characterization of the studied sample. For the analysis of the results, it was made an exploratory descriptive study initially, followed by the use of techniques statistical multivariate s, such as, factorial analysis through the application of main components, besides the accomplishment of studies of multiple lineal regression. To complement this study, the accomplishment of Tests of Independence was proceeded through the Qui-square of Pearson, in way to verify the dependence of the associations between the partner-demographic variables and the principal selected variables and presents in the resulting factors of the factorial analysis. The results appear for a low level of environmental knowledge, of access to the information and community's sense, besides the verification that the principal factors resultants send for the need of feeling emphasis in the programs and administration actions addressed for the environmental understanding, the behaviors and attitudes that approach the information and the environmental education, besides the reuse of the water

O desenvolvimento sustentável na formulação de políticas públicas e sua proposta de gestão cidadã em Araraquara no período 2001-2004

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Avaliação de impacto ambiental do cemitério Jardim dos Lírios do município de Bauru - SP

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Um estudo sobre as boas práticas e principais dificuldades na implantação de um sistema de gestão de qualidade com base na ISO 9001 e seus reflexos na área ambiental

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Formulação de um índice de qualidade de gestão de resíduos sólidos urbanos

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Área de proteção ambiental da Ilha do Combu, Belém/PA: desafios de implantação e de gestão de uma unidade de conservação

Esta dissertação de mestrado constitui-se em um estudo de caso do processo de criação, implementação e gestão da Área de Proteção Ambiental da Ilha do Combu (APA Combu) localizada no município de Belém no estado do Pará, delimitada temporalmente a partir do ato de sua criação no ano de 1997 ao período atual, ano de 2010. Como principais objetivos pretenderam-se analisar e refletir sobre os principais desafios e possibilidades da gestão ambiental da Área de Proteção Ambiental da Ilha do Combu; identificar as principais mudanças ocorridas na Ilha do Combu após o processo de criação da APA e identificar os principais problemas existentes na APA da Ilha do Combu. Os problemas que pretendemos responder são: Quais os principais desafios colocados e as possibilidades de uma gestão ambiental na APA da Ilha do Combu no contexto atual? Como se deu processo de criação da APA da Ilha do Combu na ótica do órgão gestor e das lideranças locais? E o que significou para a população da Ilha do Combu na ótica das lideranças locais a criação da APA? A pesquisa é de cunho qualitativo e de caráter interdisciplinar por abordar o problema na ótica de várias disciplinas buscando uma visão holística. Para a sua realização foi realizado levantamento bibliográfico, consultas e análises de fontes documentais, visitas de campo, trilhas no interior da ilha, observação simples em reuniões e oficinas e entrevistas com as lideranças locais da APA, gestores e técnicos do órgão ambiental. Utilizamo-nos também da cartografia como recurso metodológico para entender a dinâmica desse território e para georreferenciar a configuração atual da APA por meio de marcação de pontos através de GPS. As principais conclusões apontam para a fragilidade da gestão em unidades de conservação. Os desafios referem-se aos aspectos relacionados às demandas, aspecto cultural, órgão gestor e conselho e uma atenta visão de futuro. As possibilidades encontram-se na manutenção de uma floresta ainda bem conservada, a existência de um significativo arranjo institucional e lideranças comprometidas com o lugar. Não partiu da população local a criação da APA e nem houve um conhecimento por todos da sua criação. A criação da APA não teve muito significado para o cotidiano da sua população porque nenhuma mudança foi percebida desde a sua criação. Mas, salienta que a partir de dois anos para cá já é sentido algumas tímidas intervenções do órgão gestor responsável, inclusive com grande expectativa na construção da sede da APA na ilha.

Descentralização da política ambiental no Brasil e a gestão dos recursos naturais no cerrado goiano

Pós-graduação em Geografia - IGCE

Município e gestão do território: os impactos da 2ª etapa da UHE nas ações locais de abastecimento de água em Tucuruí (PA)

A problemática da água abarca duas questões capitais: de um lado temos a inerência do uso múltiplo da água no processo de reprodução e sobrevivência da humanidade, e de outro, a intensificação da valorização da natureza como mercadoria. Nas áreas de maior concentração populacional e de uso diversificado e intenso dos recursos hídricos, regiões industriais dos países centrais e de países como o Brasil a escassez torna-se cada vez mais evidente. A distribuição irregular dos recursos hídricos acentua ainda mais a problemática da água. Em vistas a contribuir com o debate, tomamos como objeto de análise a cidade de Tucuruí, palco de profundas transformações sócio-espaciais, motivadas pela construção e ampliação da Usina Hidrelétrica de Tucuruí no período entre as décadas de 1970 e 1990. Busca-se entender o papel da administração municipal na estrutura política de gestão dos recursos hídricos, utilizando como exemplo a rede de abastecimento e a multiplicidade do uso da água na cidade de Tucuruí. Essa análise se assentará no desempenhado pelo município para a gestão territorial a partir dos rebatimentos da 2ª etapa de construção da UHE – Tucuruí.

Educação ambiental e gestão de unidades de conservação: um estudo de caso na Área de Proteção Ambiental Algodoal-Maiandeua

Analisa de que forma as práticas de educação ambiental tem contribuído para o fortalecimento e consolidação da gestão de unidades de conservação, a partir das falas da comunidade local. Adotou-se como lócus de pesquisa a Área de Proteção Ambiental (APA) Algodoal-Maiandeua. Foram entrevistadas cem famílias residentes nas quatro comunidades da APA Algodoal-Maiandeua: Vila de Algodoal, Vila Fortalezinha, Vila de Camboinha e Vila de Mocooca. Verificou-se que a educação ambiental pouco tem contribuído para a consolidação da gestão socioambiental da unidade de conservação pelos seguintes motivos: baixa frequência das ações, falta de continuidade das ações, não envolvimento da comunidade local no planejamento e implementação das ações, resultando em ações que não contemplam temas considerados importantes pela comunidade local, ausência da gerencia na unidade de conservação, ações de educação ambiental concentradas nos visitantes, ações restritas aos períodos chamados de “alta temporada” – mês de Julho, Reveillón e feriados – onde ocorre um aumento no fluxo de visitação na Ilha de Algodoal-Maiandeua. Constatou-se que o baixo grau de efetividade das ações de educação ambiental implementadas contribui para que a UC não desempenhe plenamente a sua função como unidade de conservação, mostrando-se necessário a reestruturação ampla da gestão, para que esta possa ser concretizada como previsto no Sistema de Unidades de Conservação.

Diagnóstico e gestão dos resíduos gerados em aterro sanitário

The issue of environmental impacts to human health and the generation and disposal of solid waste has led to a change of paradigms for your face, highlighting the need for sustainable management of municipal solid waste (MSW). In this context, the expansion of landfills in Brazil in recent decades makes it necessary to sustainable management of waste generated by this type of enterprise, since its implementation. The aim of this study was to perform a diagnosis of the generation of waste in a landfill, in the expansion phase, and the alternatives adopted for its management. The qualitative diagnosis was made from observations on site and the wastes were classified and quantified from August 2011 to January 2012. In the diagnosis was considered the reduction, reuse and recycle, in that order. The results of this study showed that the residue of the greatest generation was PEAD geomembranes used in the waterproofing of the landfill, reaching 7 t, followed by PVC pipes, which reached 850 kg, both destined for recycling. The largest volume of wastewater generated corresponded to the leachate, reaching 11,500 m3 , which were sent for treatment

Life cycle assessment applied to municipal solid waste management: a case study

This study analyzes the environmental performance of the Municipal Solid Waste Management System (MSWMS) of Piedade, São Paulo, from a systemic perspective. A life cycle assessment (LCA) technique was applied according to an attributional approach to evaluate both the current operational situation and different prospective scenarios, which were devised based on the application of targets for recycling dry and wet waste suggested by the pre-draft version of the Brazilian Plan for Solid Waste. The life cycle impact assessment method EcoIndicator 99, in association with normalization and weighting procedures, was used to conduct the analysis. It was observed that the adoption of goals of 30%, 50% and 70% for recovering of the recyclable dry waste, resulted in improvement of the environmental performance of the waste management system under analysis, respectively of 10%, 15% and 20%. It was also possible to detect an evolution in the order of 54% in reducing impacts resulting from the adoption of targets for composting. LCA proved to be effective for the evaluation of the environmental performance of MSWMS-Piedade. However, for future evaluations, the attributional approach should be replaced by the methodological practice of substitution to enable the avoided burdens to be considered in estimations of the environmental performance municipal solid waste management systems.

Conflito de interesses ambientais e urbanísticos dentro do contexto da gestão sustentável de cidades de médio porte no Estado de São Paulo

Responsible entrepreneurs responsible for housing project "Vale do Sol III" (claim of deployment) had proposed technique in order to solve conflicts of interest, arising with respect to residents of Vale do Sol I (already implemented). Conflicts gave up due to environmental and urban problems, originated in a notification of responsible concessionaire for the administration of Marechal Rondon highway (entry and exit of people on the road, in the city of Botucatu, Sao Paulo state). This work, based on study case method, within a deductive approach, analyzed urban and environmental aspects of the area in order to contribute to sustainable management of medium-sized cities. There was, moreover, use of GIS software for purpose of supporting this technical analysis. Investigations were carried out within environmental and urban viewpoints about Água Fria watershed, as well as technical and legal basis arising devices both municipal and federal regulations. It was concluded that proposed project of Vale do Sol III, about containment of stormwater and alternative technical and locational traffic, not presented as necessary solution, sufficient and satisfactory in the sense of, at least, mitigate sustainability problems of surrounding area (Água Fria watershed, into which could insert even Vale do Sol I condominium, subject to notification).

Gestão e gerenciamento de resíduos sólidos: diretrizes jurídico-ambientais para a sustentabilidade

rates in the Brazilian cities, which time there is an inexistent theoretical reflection about public policy statement adding the way of Urban Solid Waste (USW) and tailing integrated management plans in the majorly Brazilian cities. The unappropriated solid waste disposal and final pollution result in a strong socioenvironmental problems and material extravagancies that should be used to recycling and reusing waste material, besides bringing immense challenges for the thematic Strategy Urban and Environmental Management it considers the Sustainable City Model. Moreover, this labor projects a discussion about USW problematic through legally and environmentally point of view, including the public environmental policy and the social technologies as resolution tactics. At that time, it reports rights, scientific articles, documents and Environmental Law Doctrine on findings thematic studies, also the propose displays an interdisciplinary research methodology which combines bibliographic method - focusing theory aspects of the legally environmentally guiding principle, public policy and social technologies. Those are theorist features very important to create a Municipal Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan (PMGIRS) - modus operandi of the Federal Law n. 12.305/2010 (National Solid Waste Policy - PNRS). That policy is interesting to receive financial resources from federal government (Cities Ministry; idem, Federal Decree n. 7.404/2010 and Federal Law n. 10.257/2001) helping the preservation of the environment, regional development, generation of jobs and income (art. 6º), in addition broadening spreading’s private companies dedicated to waste management. Consequently, the PNRS contains a set of guidelines and general procedures; it should be an operation of this legal policy contextualized by Social Technologies theory (TS) into social issues, legal, economic and environmental aspects. Therefore, this research notes the possibility of public policy statement implementation over and done with the PNRS by the terms of development and sustainability in the urban space.