Aspectos jurídicos da ocupação de áreas de praia no litoral do estado do Ceará

Abstract

The Coastal Zone of Ceará, in the northeast of Brazil, is the most densely occupied region of the State and with the highest concentration of environmental pressures. Among the harmed environments are the beaches, properties of common use for the people, threatened by the unordered urban growth and the privatization of those spaces non-aedificandi, trough the building of ventures of private nature, such as: hotels, resorts, beach kiosks, clubs, beach houses and restaurants, which compromise the local ecological balance and the coastal dynamics. The present academic work approach the legal aspects involved in the occupation of the coastal areas of Ceará, especially the resulting implications of the legal definition of beach, going trough a comparative analyze between the treatment given to these environmental spaces in the different laws of the Ceará coastal councils. It aims, as well, to clarify some practical questions concearning to the accountability of the actors involved in the privatization of the beaches, and moreover to the difficulties found in the determination of the upper limits of these properties of common use of the people in densely urbanized areas.