Licenciamento ambiental na atualidade: aspectos gerais e controversos

Abstract

The ecologically balanced environment, well used by the people and essential to the healthy quality of life for present and future generations deserves more attention and respect. Environmental licensing, an instrument foreseen in the 1981 National Environmental Policy Act, seeks to mitigate and compensate for the effects of the installation and operation of enterprises, works and activities that use natural or potentially polluting resources, and which may in some way cause environmental degradation . It is in environmental licensing that environmental protection will be ensured. The present work sought to bring the history of environmental licensing in Brazil and internationally, to comment on the most important norms that govern it and the most controversial aspects of the present time. It was intended to raise a reflection of the progress and / or retrocession of this instrument over the years and its importance in maintaining the fundamental guarantee provided in art. 225, of CF / 88.