Gestão ambiental consorciada de municípios como ferramenta do licenciamento ambiental no médio Vale do Itajaí, SC

Abstract

Environmental licensing is an environmental management instrument provided for by law to ensure sustainable development and its implementation is common to all federative entities, according to their attributions and competencies. Faced with the difficulty of municipalities for this compliance, the strategy of the intermunicipal consortium became an alternative for the realization of environmental licensing. In this context, the objective of this work was to evaluate the environmental management consortium of municipalities as a tool for environmental licensing in the region of the Middle Vale do Itajaí in the state of Santa Catarina. The methodology of the study approached the primary research on the perception of the municipal managers on the 10 municipalities that participate in the Intermunicipal Consortium of the Middle Vale do Itajaí (CIMVI), as well as characterization, structure and feasibility of the model adopted for the consortium of environmental licensing activities. The results demonstrate agility in the licensing process, with an average of 60 days for issuing environmental licenses. The results also indicate a positive evaluation of the municipal managers of this model, where 77% indicate that there is a greater control of effective and potentially polluting activities, 77% make a positive evaluation of the entrepreneurs attended and 58% evaluate as a financially viable model. Finally, the organization of public consortia is a viable model of environmental management for small municipalities to carry out environmental licensing.