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The current environmental crisis and intense degradation of natural capital make it increasingly evident the importance of including solutions for the conservation and recovery of ecosystems, such as the Payment for Environmental Services (PES). With an interdisciplinary character and survey of quantitative and qualitative data, the research carried out an evaluation of the ecosystem services and the potential of implementing a PES program in the region of Angra Doce, Paraná, Brazil, which is classified as a Special Area of Tourist Interest and is be listed as a priority area in accordance with the National Payment Policy for Environmental Services (PNPSA). From the results obtained, the region demonstrated that it has the potential to create municipal public policies for PES based on the cultural services established in the guidelines of the PNPSA an experience that can also be used by other Brazilian municipalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Ecological Economic Zoning (EEZ) is an environmental management tool established in the National Environmental Policy (PNMA) and present in all states of Brazil. Since the 1990s, it has been implemented in Brazil; however, the attempts at implementation and the results obtained so far do not provide evidence of its effectiveness. Thus, this article seeks to understand the implementation of EEZ in Tocantins by analyzing the perceptions of local actors through the Collective Subject Discourse (CSD) method. The conclusion is that EEZ in Tocantins has not been implemented. Among the identified causes, institutional factors such as low administrative capacity, governance, and "political will" associated with the disconfiguration of its normative character prevail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How has the food issue evolved in Portugal and what are the potentialities and challenges for the construction of fairer, healthier and more sustainable food systems? This article addresses these questions by analysing the convergences and divergences between (i) government discourses and public policies around food, (ii) the alternative food networks developed by civil society and local power, and (iii) the proposals and initiatives of the organized family farming sector. It concludes that there is broad interest in the country for the issue of food transition, but that the social and environmental justice dimension is still largely missing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents data about the emergence and consolidation of the public policy creation of protected areas between 1940 and 2000 in the territory of the state of Espírito Santo. Methodologically, this is a case study. It aimed to analyze processes involving collective action strategies from the perspective of social conflicts. The paper presents considerations about the civil society participation in the transition between a personalized model -- more susceptible to individual wills (government actions) -- and another based on public debates, institutionalized (state policy). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Brazil is experiencing a severe environmental crisis, which culminates with the dismantling of the National Environmental Policy. The recent changes carried out since 2019 by the Brazilian government have been widely reflected negatively in the national and international scientific communities, bringing to light the importance of Brazilian biomes for the sustainable development. This article aimed to investigate and reflect on the encounters and disagreements of Law no. 6,938, of August 31, 1981, discussing the current National Environmental Policy. For this, exploratory research with a qualitative approach was carried out, based on a literature review. Data analysis was performed using the complex-systemic approach method. The results indicate that there was a denaturation of the National Environmental Policy, thus making the law ineffective for the preservation of Brazil's environmental heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The last decades of national environmental policy and management were marked by the recognition and acknowledgement of traditional peoples in the conservation of the environment. In this context, this research investigated the human-environment relationship of a riverside community of the Brazilian Amazon. The main research question was: how do residents of the Extractive Reserve Lake Cuniã understand and evaluate their relationship with the environment? The research occurred in the school space, through the application of 24 questionnaires, triangulated to direct observations of community life and informal conversations. The main results demonstrate that the residents evaluate as positive and conservationist/pragmatic the community relationship and its individual relationship with the environment. From the data emerge (self)reflections for the field of environmental education research, highlighting the historicity of the notion of "environment" and its implications to develop inquiries and actions with peoples in relation of direct interdependence with nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text deals with the environmental public policies in the rural space directed to the conservation of the water resources. The main objective of the article is to highlight the projects aimed at the recovery of degraded areas in Rio de Janeiro River Basins, specifically in the Hydrographic Regions I, II and III, which serve the supply of approximately 12 million people living in the Metropolitan Region. At the level of analysis was based on the Program Producer of Water and Forests - PAF, developed by the National Water Agency - ANA, to identify potentialities and limitations, as well as propose the incorporation of new properties to the program in the rural area of Rio de Janeiro. In this sense, the research realized a continuous logic of investigation, whose data will be obtained in cabinet work, was carried out a broad literature and field review, to conduct interviews with the actors involved in the process. The initial results showed that public policies aimed at conservation and maintenance of water stocks are deficient. Partly due to the bureaucratic and legal framework in the municipal instances and partly due to the lack of consolidated state policies aimed at conserving water. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Historically, quilombola communities have occupied a place of subordination in the official history, motivated by the enslavement process of African people. These communities have created and continually recreate their spaces and movements of resistance to the various forms of oppression experienced. The organization for the assurance of rights has been necessary since the first steps into Brazil, extending to the current days. In the past there were escapes and rebellions, today the fight is against the obstacles of territorial demarcation, absence of public policies and environmental racism practiced by the State or private agents. Thus, the quilombola movement remains fundamental for the defense of life and the collective territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Faced with a scenario in which popular participation, materialized in participatory institutions, is in full expansion and constitutes a demand for environmental public policies. And considering that this type of policy affects everyone in general and not just a specific segment. This article seeks to carry out a theoretical-conceptual discussion about the true meaning of popular participation, pointing out characteristics that contribute to the strengthening and also to the weakening of the participation process, as well as to bring to the fore ways of making it more effective and attractive to the citizens. It was realized that the great challenge is not necessarily to promote popular participation, but rather to promote an effective participation of society in environmental causes. It was identified a series of aspects that can contribute to the effectiveness of the popular participation in environmental causes, but highlighting the access to the information as primordial in this process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is about the fight of the riverside peoples for the conservation and preservation of the natural resources of their territories and it aims at analyzing the organizational, educative, and socio-environmental practices of the Amazonian riverside people as strategies of resistance and existence in the origin territory. It is an unfolding of a master degree research in Society and Culture in the Amazon, of the Federal University of Amazonas entitled “The meaning of the practices of socio-environmental sustainability of the Living Nature Environmental Group - GRANAV along with the Riverside Communities of the Municipality of Parintins, State of Amazonas”, that occurred from March 2014 to May 2016 in the lowland region of this municipality. It was orientated by a qualitative approach, based on the dialectic conception and its intense relationship with the reflections, analyses, and discussions about the data collected. In the results obtained, it is possible to point out that the organizational, educational, and socio-environmental practices have contributed with the improvement of public policies towards the environmental, social, educational, cultural, territorial, and economic conditions of the riverside peoples of the Amazon. It is important to report the ample process of sensitization by means of the popular education which extrapolated the limits of the communities involved, empowering the socio-environmental fights and the mobilization of the riverside peoples in defense of the living nature, as strategy of resistance and existence in their territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is about the fight of the riverside peoples for the conservation and preservation of the natural resources of their territories and it aims at analyzing the organizational, educative, and socio-environmental practices of the Amazonian riverside people as strategies of resistance and existence in the origin territory. It is an unfolding of a master degree research in Society and Culture in the Amazon, of the Federal University of Amazonas entitled "The meaning of the practices of socioenvironmental sustainability of the Living Nature Environmental Group - GRANAV along with the Riverside Communities of the Municipality of Parintins, State of Amazonas", that occurred from March 2014 to May 2016 in the lowland region of this municipality. It was orientated by a qualitative approach, based on the dialectic conception and its intense relationship with the reflections, analyses, and discussions about the data collected. In the results obtained, it is possible to point out that the organizational, educational, and socio-environmental practices have contributed with the improvement of public policies towards the environmental, social, educational, cultural, territorial, and economic conditions of the riverside peoples of the Amazon. It is important to report the ample process of sensitization by means of the popular education which extrapolated the limits of the communities involved, empowering the socio-environmental fights and the mobilization of the riverside peoples in defense of the living nature, as strategy of resistance and existence in their territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The recent expansion of agribusiness in Tocantins state's savannah has brought several kinds of changes to this biome territory, among them environmental ones. Its consequences may affect the climate, water resources, socio-biodiversity, and people's ways of life, particularly those who live in the countryside and rely directly on nature to support themselves. Grounded on such a context, this paper offers an overview of the current scenario of municipalities in Tocantins state based on indicators concerning agriculture and cattle raising (e.g. planting/pasture areas and cattle) as well as the environment (e.g. accumulated deforestation and deficits of legal reserves and permanent protection areas). The study verified, within the limits of each municipality, the existence of traditional communities and rural settlements, groups regarded as more exposed and vulnerable to agribusiness' negative effects on the environment. This paper ultimately aims to learn more about the context surrounding this topic at state level and identify municipalities that demand priority in the production of in-depth studies and the enforcement of public policies for environmental monitoring, inspection, and conservation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The importance of environmental public policies with regard to theadministrative process of environmental warranting is well-known. Current study analyzes the legality of the Simplified Environmental Report (RAS) as an environmental study in warrants for socially-built houses. Analysis questions the mandatory aspect of such studies in the warrant processes. Research also analyzes the Term of Reference (TR) prepared by IDEMA, COPAM and COEMA, and contrasts the TRs of RN, PB and CE, respectively, taking into consideration the information quality in the document and forwarding suggestions for any improvement. Due to the fact the that information mentioned above and the aspects related to the legality of RAS as an environmental study aim at the building of socially-built houses, the TR by IDEMA attends its goal. However, the item on Biotic Medium should be complemented to lessen the possibility of problems in the elaboration of RAS. However, due to difficulties in accessing TR of COPAM and COEMA, an evaluation of items of the respective TRs was unavailable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two main drivers shape the global governance of climate change: "climate power" and climate commitment. Climate power refers to the level of influence of certain agents over the climate social outcome at the systemic level. Climate commitment recalls the fact that the logic of global climate governance is also defined by the interaction of reformist and conservative forces, with the former willing to take post-sovereigntist measures to tackle the crisis, and the latter resisting any major changes in the way business is conducted. This article analyses the role of Brazil in global climate governance, considering both climate power and climate commitment. It argues that the country transitioned from a conservative great climate power to a moderate conservative position over the last decade, based on three pillars: reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, the adoption of domestic climate policies, and a shift in its international standing on the issue. However, since 2011 the process has stalled and partially reversed. The aim of this article is to address that transformation and explore its perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the context of global governance, we analyze the topic of policy transfer in which the formulation of public policies is influenced by experiences of different political contexts. Thus, we question how the Cartagena Protocol influenced the formulation of the Brazilian National Biosafety Policy (PNB). The empirical research was accomplished through semi-structured interviews with qualified respondents who worked directly or indirectly in the PNB's formulation process. In order to analyze the data we adopted a qualitative approach, through the use of content analysis. The results reveal that there was a policy transfer in the form of lesson drawing from the Cartagena Protocol to the PNB. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The creation of policies for managing the water resources, such as charging policies for the use of the water, has been influenced by different perspectives that not only affect the views that people have of the world, but also their actions. This paper discusses the different perspectives that influence the process of creation and implementation of these policies, seeking to evaluate their consequences on the system of charging for the use of water resources in Brazil. It was observed that although the Brazilian legislation on water resources has been created in a context of discourses of sustainable development, the focus of its implementation is, basically, the technical-driven perspective, with an anthropocentric and utilitarian view, relegating social and ecological sustainability to second place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article aims to understand and analyze social policies concerning the environment, specifically on the management of solid waste in the Distrito Federal. At first we introduce the concept of public policy, its evolution, its actors and stages of formulation. The second topic provides the definition and classification of solid waste. In the third topic, shows the evolution of public environment policies in the world. Then, the evolution of public environmental policy at national level. Later, as it develops the issue of solid waste management in the Distrito Federal. Finally, there will be an evaluation of the suggested public policy for the management of solid waste in the Distrito Federal. At the conclusion, in addition to general observations about the various aspects covered in this paper, it is verified that there is little being made by the public policies developed on this theme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]