Relações Estado-Sociedade: Análise da participação social na gestão ambiental da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

The National Environmental Policy is the normative political instrument that seeks to produce the means for the conservation, use and fair distribution of the benefits associated with natural resources to the whole society in the Brazilian territory. The policy is based on the implementation of institutional measures in an integrated way between the members of the public power and the civil society towards the sustainable development. In this sense, the purpose of this work was to describe and analyze, through access to official documents and literature review, the relations between State and Society through the analysis of the process of institutionalization of the administration and the public policy of the environment in the city of Rio de Janeiro . In order to identify the degree of adherence of the environment policy in the city of Rio de Janeiro to the objectives, the theoretical references of political science, especially of neo institutionalism, were used, which allowed the analysis of the state's capacities to implement the policy. In the second part of the research through the reference on social participation were identified which are the actors that act in the representation of civil society in spaces institutionalized by the public power for action jointly between State and society in the dynamics of inspection and implementation of environmental policy in the city of Rio de Janeiro. From the documents analyzed, it can be seen that the public authority responsible for environmental policy in the city of Rio de Janeiro, since its implementation, has been losing its ability to act and, although there are institutionalized spaces that strengthen the participation of the society on the management of environmental policy, this representation has its limited capacity for action through the permanence of patrimonialist forms of administration and clientelistic modes of functioning of the political system.