O CÓDIGO FLORESTAL NA PEQUENA PROPRIEDADE RURAL: UM ESTUDO DE CASO EM TRÊS PROPRIEDADES NA MICROBACIA DO RIO MIRINGUAVA

Abstract

Brazil is considered one of the countries with the most modern and comprehensive environmental legislation. However this large number of Laws creates difficulties for understanding and applying-them with efficiency and environmental return for society. This work is going to show that this confusion of Laws complicates mainly the small rural estate to adapt itself to the imposed norms, examples are the Forest Code (Law 4.771, of 15-09-1965), the emergency measures that brought it up to date and also the recurring changes in the state legislation. It is discussed the problem of diverse interpretations given to same points of imposed norms. The study has assumed the importance of preserving the environment, but considers that this preservation can not overrun the survival of the small rural producer, which in his activities should respect the environment even when transforming his estate in a sustainable territorial unit in function of the collective interest adapting itself to the environmental legislation, with incentives or feasible alternatives to fulfill it. Among the main divergences of interpretation are the Legal Reserve and its forms of compensation. The present work seeks to show in an empirical form the applicability of this legislation and how much it interferes with the rural estate. Three different estates were taken as study-object, in which were proposed incentives for the awareness and adaptation to the legislation and also suggestions for adapting to the norms.

Keywords

• Meio ambiente
• propriedade rural
• legislação ambiental e gestão ambiental
• Environment
• rural estate
• environmental legislation
• environmental management