Avaliação da implantação de gestão nas unidades de conservação no município do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

Among the various legal forms of protecting natural resources to ensure that everyone has the right to an ecologically balanced environment—an asset of common use by the people and essential for a healthy quality of life—Protected Areas (PAs) are one of the main tools available to environmental planning and management agencies. The Federal Constitution, the Constitution of the State of Rio de Janeiro, and the Organic Law of the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro dedicate chapters to the creation of these protected areas, establishing objectives, criteria, and rules that apply to various stages, from the creation process to the management of these territories. The city of Rio de Janeiro, globally recognized for its natural beauty and sociocultural diversity, has made indiscriminate use of this protection tool. Rio has 76 Protected Areas with varying levels of management implementation, often overlapping with one another. This complex scenario, with metropolitan territorial dimensions involving environmental agencies from the three levels of government, was analyzed in this research, which assessed the management implementation in these legally protected areas using indicators and factors, such as boundary overlaps, that influence initiatives to effectively manage them. The results also allowed for measuring the efforts and dedication of environmental agencies to transform Protected Areas that exist only on paper into spaces that effectively achieve their objectives related to environmental preservation, the promotion of sustainable development, and the appreciation of traditional populations and biodiversity. Using geotechnologies, the research results were organized into a Geographic Database, which will be made available to support public agencies, researchers, students, and professionals dealing with the topic.