As novas tecnologias no auxílio ao automonitoramento ambiental: estudo de caso do Aerobarco Vector.

Abstract

The National Environment Policy-PNMA, established by the law of nº 6.938/81, draws up general rules in accordance with the constitutional precepts on the environment. To give effectiveness to the PNMA devices and to ensure sustainable development arises the figure of environmental licensing, of paramount importance for the control of the effective or potentially polluting activities, this being a process in which, met the conditions established both in law and by the environmental organs, in the form of conditioners, the entrepreneur is enabled by means of environmental license. Among the constraints imposed on the entrepreneur for the exercise of his activities, the self-monitoring is highlighted, in which the entrepreneur, by means of reports and other information provided to the licensing Environmental agency, monitors his own activity. Although it is a breakthrough, by allowing the bureaucracy of licensing processes, there are notable failures in self-monitoring, which range from the lack of publicity of the acts of the process by the public bodies until the omission of relevant information by part of the entrepreneur, which can lead to disasters of incalculable dimensions, as in the case of the break-up of the Fundão dam, in Mariana/MG. To assist in monitoring activities that may in some way pollute the environment, has been gaining strength the use of new technologies. In the state of Ceará it was built the hovercraft Vector, designed to collect and analyze data on water quality, according to pre-established standards in the project. The use of this type of technology in environmental monitoring is beneficial both to entrepreneurs, when they are tasked with monitoring their activities, because it has low investment and is easy to use, as for the public bodies responsible for monitoring of activities, as they can check the information provided by the entrepreneur according to his own analyses.