O Processo de municipalização da gestão ambiental em municípios do sudeste do Pará: desafios, estratégias e benéficos para a Gestão Pública Municipal

Abstract

The state of Pará, currently, carries out an intense policy of decentralizing its environmental management, granting responsibilities and competences, once centralized in the hands of state power, to the municipalities of Pará. It is a notorious fact that the municipal sphere has historically always suffered from a lack of good work structures, managerial deficiencies, political influences and the lack of trained human capital to meet local demands. Therefore, this study aimed to analyze the institutional capacity of environmental management in the municipalities of Marabá, Redenção and Parauapebas, from the analysis of the aspects of infrastructure, human resources, financial management and cooperative management, thus describing the current moment of municipalization of environmental management in these municipalities and their current performance. The survey of the main environmental theories as well as the legal legal foundations in the area of the environment were carried out through documentary analysis and the legal framework. Considering that municipalized environmental management is a federative commitment, since the municipality is inserted in a shared and decentralized management system with the Union, the States and the Federal District, theoretical contributions of the decentralization of public policies in their social dimension were also used . The methodology used in this dissertation used a questionnaire applied to local managers, covering themes of 5 variables (current legislation, basic infrastructure, human resources, social participation and financial management) that run through the structural, financial and cooperative segments, which together form the institutional capacity concept. After collecting such information, an individual analysis of each municipality object of this study was carried out, presenting, in a direct and holistic way, a portrait of each municipal environment secretariat in terms of operational, organizational and institutional aspects. Following the analysis, a comparative and integrated study of the three chosen environmental departments was then carried out, as a way of presenting the reader with the strengths and weaknesses, challenges, strategies, difficulties and benefits that environmental management brings with it at the moment when the municipality assumes its ownership. With this perception and analyzing the results, this study found certain deficiencies exposed in the municipalized environmental management and as a way to eradicate them or mitigate their harmful effects, presented proposals for guidelines to optimize the municipalization of environmental management in the State of Pará