Análise integrada do modelo de proteção ambiental e gestão das unidades de conservação do município de Paraipaba – CE

Abstract

This research developed an analysis on the conservation units in the city of Paraipaba, located on the East coast of Ceará, highlighting the socioenvironmental characteristics, the implementation as well as the managerial procedures of such units. The aim of the analysis is to evaluate those units juridically, concerning the criteria stated by the National System of Conservation Units (SNUC). Following the referred evaluation, new definitions of perimeter and category were proposed in order to accomplish the conservation and environmental preservation. It was considered the historical moment when the national guidelines were established to protect the environment through the creation and the management of protected areas, these guidelines have been acknowledged by the National Plan of Protected Areas (PNAP). Even though its effectiveness is not sustained, partially, due to the specific regulation of criteria and rules by the state members able to make real the protection of environment through the implantation of sustainable management of the areas, which is not frequently observed in the state of Ceará. This research hopes to contribute to the granted criteria of systematical environmental protection of the eastern coastline of Ceará which is currently carried out poorly and using some criteria that oppose to the environmental preservation, such as the financing of potentially polluting activities without the proper care and support of the community or the law. One of the most important criteria reached in this work is the integrated analysis of the conservation units of the Curu river estuary along with the dunes of Lagoinha. It could be identified then the inadequacy of the categories of those units, if considered the elements that constitute their natural environment and socioeconomics which prevent from reaching the main goal of environmental protection.