ENVIONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT IN URBAN LAND REGULARIZATION AREA
environmental licensing; urban land regularization; environmental impact assessment; informal setlemen
About 85% of the Brazilian population lives in an urban area. The low formal supply of housing in the face of high demand contributes to the occupation of urban areas irregularly. The process of irregular allotment often occurs on environmentally protected areas, favoring the silting of watercourses, hydrological imbalance, worsening of erosive processes, causing damage to flora, fauna and human health. With the advance and consolidation of the informal urban occupations in the territory, the State have to regularize these areas. The environmental instrument used to subsidize the urban land regularization -REURB process is corrective environmental licensing. This instrument aims to identify the environmental impacts caused and establish mitigating and compensatory measures that promote better environmental and urban conditions for the areas to be regularized. However, the effectiveness in environmental impact assessment processes has been questioned in national and international scientific papers. The low quality of environmental studies, the institutional incapacity of environmental agencies and the lack of intersectoral articulation are some examples mentioned in the literature that compromise the effectiveness in environmental licensing. In this sense, the general objective of this work is to evaluate the effectiveness in environmental licensing processes for land regularization purposes in the Area of Regularization of Social Interest (ARIS) and in the Area of Regularization of Specific Interest (ARINE) in the Federal District, Brazil, proposing measures that promote the improvement of the process. For this, documentary research will be carried out on the licensing processes; semi-structured questionnaires, interviews with actors involved in regularization and field visits in ARIS and ARINE. As a result of this research, it is intended to contribute to the academic debate, empirically, about process of environmental impact assessment and to target government efforts to improve the elaboration of infrastructure and urbanism projects in consolidated urban informal setlement.