Formulation of mineral policy in Brazil (a contribution)

• Autor(a) principal: Cota, Raymundo Garcia
• Data de Publicação: 1986
• Outros Autores: Coelho, Maria Celia Nunes, Rio, Gisela Aquino Pires do
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/10048

Mineral resources are natural goods to be put into service of humanity. Since they are non-renewable, by definition, their exploitation must be economical, because they do not belong on1y to the present generation but also to the future ones. Thus comes the need of public policies of' natural exploitation which may take into account certain criteria concerning the finitude of minerals, their strategic importance to the country, the respect to environment, the employed technology. Owing to the authoritarian cicle which the nation has just passed, it is necessary to purge the legislation from the accumulated vices; exposing the problem to the debate of civil society. This way the people will express what is to be reformulated in defense of their interest.