Gestão ambiental pública na Amazônia brasileira: uma análise de gestão ambiental integrada no estado do Pará

Abstract

The study analyzes the public environmental management in the Brazilian Amazon, from the results of the Integrated Environmental Management Project, part of the Pilot Program for the Protection of Tropical Forests in Brazil. Applied in the Amazon region, the project had, as its objective, to develop a model of environmental management in the region, given priority to the institutional capacity of the Secretariats of the Environment, in the technical, logistical and managerial actions with specific technical training, in logistics and participatory planning. This scientific research adopted the Qualitative Method as an inductive strategy with hypotheses, having the municipalities of Santarém and Paragominas, in the State of Pará as the research regions during the 2008-2012 periods. The data was collected through bibliographical documents and investigations, conducting semi-structured research with twenty key interviews for better understanding the project and to organize and evaluate the collected information using a methodological structure based on the Systems Theory, a theory that also apply in this thesis. One of the results of this study was the fact that the PGAI contributed to help the municipalities to define their environmental management system, strengthening and raising their actions, with positive impacts for the appropriate treatment of their natural resources and physical environment, showing, also, the importance of the actions designed for Amazonian municipalities that had planned and used the legal principles of public administration and that was conducted by a transparent and participatory public management, respecting the needs, limitations and potential of the locations, considering the environmental sustainability and the collective interests of the region.