Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and Sustainability in Minas Gerais

• Autor(a) principal: Sanguinetto, Evandro
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Labor & Engenho (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/labore/article/view/130
• topic: Sustainability; Sustainable development; Ecological-economic Zoning.; Sustentabilidade; Desenvolvimento sustentável; Zoneamento ecológico-econômico

This paper was aimed at conducting a bibliographical research on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and their relation to the Ecological Economic Zoning (EEZ) in the state of Minas Gerais. It is believed that the EIA is subject to failures as it does not take into account larger impacts upon space, time, cumulative and synergistic effects, whereas reflecting a reductionist point of view of the undertaking to the detriment of a broader, systemic, holistic perspective. With a view to compensate for such failure, the SEA is seen as an appropriate tool for the evaluation of political impacts, plans and programs which, conversely, guides the implementation of projects in an more integrated manner. Therefore, two EIAs can be used as reference; one refers to a rural electrification program in the state of Minas Gerais and the other approaches the integration planning of water sources in the metropolitan area of the state of São Paulo. While planning the Ecological Economic Zoning of the state, Minas Gerais takes a decisive step forward the reduction of conflicts related with multiple interests of economic development, providing and forming the basis for the essential balance among profit, preservation and environmental conservation, social justice, respect and cultural diversity, political and institutional maturation, ethic and plurality, which splash the sustainability colors on the canvas of the future.