Análise do processo de licenciamento ambiental no município de Eusébio – CE

Abstract

The environmental licensing in Brazil was established by the law nº 6.938 in 1981 with the aim to promote the control of activities that may cause environmental degradation. The municipalization of the licensing is a recent process that makes possible to control and prevent the local environmental impacts due to the geographic proximity between the managing agencies and the activities that affect the municipal territory. Hereby it will be presented a study that was developed in order to analyze the environmental licensing process of the Eusébio municipality in Ceará during the period of 2013 to the beginning of 2017. For this it was made queries to secondary databases as well as spreadsheets of the licensing process of the Eusébio Town Hall of Environment, in addition there was made questionaries to the Town Hall employees. The results indicate that the environmental legislation has been applied, since between 2013 and 2016 it was issued more than 1198 environmental licenses. On the other hand, it was identified shortcomings in the environmental licensing, such as the lack of human resources and financial which reverbarate on the slowness of the licensing process and the communication failures between AMMA and SEMACE. Resulting on the hassle of entrepreneurs by the conflict of informations given about the competence of the licensing. The research reinforced the necessity of performing effective tecnical and administrative decentralization of licensing with rigid environmental, social and economic sustainability criteria.