O licenciamento ambiental à luz da justiça ambiental e o caso do veículo leve sobre trilhos

Abstract

This monograph researches the problems and limits of environmental licensing in the light of Environmental Justice considering the case of the Light Rail Parangaba-Mucuripe in Fortaleza. Deals with the current legal urban order in Brasil and the theory of Environmental Justice, speaks about the problems of environmental licensing of the Light Rail Parangaba Mucuripe, the environmental injustice in this work and in other projects with significant environmental impact and the problems of the environmental licensing associated with environmental injustice. The methodology consisted of bibliographic, documentary and field research. The Environmental Impact Study, the Environmental Impact Report and other documents of the environmental licensing have been analyzed; testimonies of people potentially achieved by the forced evictions of the Light Rail have been collected from the newspaper “Impressões” and from the Communities potentially achieved by the forced evictions of the works of World Cup in Fortaleza (CE) Dossier and information have been collected on public hearings. Concludes that the environmental licensing of the Light Rail has several irregularities, that the design of the Light Rail is environmentally unjust, that the environmental license has not identified the environmental and social injustice of the Light Rail design, as well as the numerous rights violated and threatened by the design and the work, that the environmental licensing generally does not identify environmental injustice, segregation and rights violations that characterize designs with significant environmental impact. Besides, the problems of environmental licensing cause several rights violations. At last, guidelines and changes have been proposed for environmental licensing, considering the Evaluation of Environmental Equity.