Zoneamento ecológico econômico da zona costeira do Ceará: atualização e conformidade com a legislação ambiental

Abstract

Considering economic development, with works and activities that generate impacts on natural resources, a set of instruments were created with the aim of minimizing negative effects on the environment. Among these, an important tool is the Ecological Economic Zoning (ZEE), provided for in the National Environmental Policy (PNMA), of 1981. According to Federal Decree No. 4,297/2002, the ZEE is an instrument for organizing the territory to be compulsorily followed in the implementation of public and private plans, works and activities, establishes measures and standards of environmental protection aimed at ensuring environmental quality, water resources and soil and the conservation of biodiversity, guaranteeing sustainable development and the improvement of living conditions. population life. In Ceará, the ZEE of the coastal zone of Ceará (ZEEC-CE) was prepared. Its first version, dated 2006, was established in the law that created the State Coastal Management Plan (PEGC), however, the tool was never regulated. It is currently in the process of being revised. The objective of this work is to analyze the current situation of the ZEEC-CE and its renewal, focusing on what determines the current environmental legislation. Bibliographic research was carried out in books, scientific articles, documents on the formulation of the ZEEC-CE version 2006 and the update process, in addition, a survey of environmental legislation on the subject, at the federal and state levels, as well as consultations made with the State Department of the Environment - SEMA, the body responsible for coordinating the ZEEC-CE. In this way, we can consider that the requirements for delivery of the plan were met in the process of being finalized, containing a draft bill presented to the Legislative Assembly, pending approval, that is, despite the elaboration of the technical content, the ZEEC-CE still it is not suitable for use as determined by the PNMA and the PEGC.