O Rio Quente Resorts e os impactos ambientais

Abstract

This paper analyzes the Rio Quente Resort and the implications of tourism to the environment of the Rio Quente District, under the view of precaution and the theory of risk by Ulrich Beck and Pierpaolo Cruz Bottini. The choice of this theme is justified due to its relevancy for the social area, economics and politics in the international, national and local scopes. The study makes a brief approach of the natural historical course and dichotomy between the sustainable development and the environmental degradation of the water resources of the Rio Quente District. Considering the current legislation in terms of environmental law, in the international and national levels, as well as the penal and environmental civil objective and administrative responsibilities. This research aims to investigate if the Public Ministry of Goiás and the City of Rio Quente County are doing their institutional roles, in regard to the traces of imminent contamination of hydric resources in the Ribeirão das Águas Quentes. Using the methodology of qualitative research and inductive method by the means of bibliography, research, interviews and visitations in loco. The current case being: The Term of Adjustment of Conduct, the monitoring of the quality of water index, and the Public Civil environmental Action, of the 2° Judicial court in law of the Tribunal of Justice of the city Caldas Novas, which abides the request of the Public Ministry, by the injunction in disfavor of the City Hall of Rio Quente. Thereafter, infers throughout the research that the Civil Public Action did not obtain effective results, up to the present, regarding the protection of Ribeirão das Águas Quentes, due to some factors such as, justice slowness, economic and politics interferences and economic dependence of the District.