Participação social e gestão ambiental municipal no Brasil: desafios e condicionantes

Abstract

GIARETTA, J. B. Z. Social Participation and Municipal Environmental in Brazil: challenges and constraints [dissertation]. Sao Paulo: School of Public Health, USP; 2011. This research is part of the research line in policy, planning and environmental management of the Environmental Health Department of School of Public Health, University of Sao Paulo. Aims to present alternatives that facilitate social participation by the municipal environmental management in Brazil by identifying the main conditioning factors this process. It starts from the assumption that social participation is a decisive factor for improved environmental management at municipal level in order to strengthen and improve foundations for strong local democracy, enabling the society to be part of the municipal services management. Therefore, was a survey of the literature and analysis that has been written on this subject in Brazil, focusing on scientific articles, doctoral theses and dissertations between 2000 and 2010, sought in the databases: Cab Abstract , SciELO (Brazil), Lilacs, Pubmed, Repidisca, Dedalus (USP) and Web of Science. As a result, a set of conditioning factors of social participation in municipal environmental management in Brazil was identified, especially: the issue of disclosure and access to information, education for individual performance of collective participation, problems perception / local demands as an incentive for participation, identity and recovery site and difficult access to participatory institutions. These results are in line with an agreement in the literature on the subject in question, in this way, how thinking in society participation in environmental management by the municipalities without information? Without education and training? Without improving the area? Without power decentralization? Without integration, coordination and partnership of government sectors among themselves and with civil society? Thus, it is hoped this research provide support for the advancement of municipal environmental management processes based on social participation.