Estatuto da cidade e a questão da conservação ambiental no municipio de Colinas do Tocantins - TO

Abstract

The advent of the City Statute, Law No 10.257, of July 10, legitimizes the municipalities to adopt measures with the distribution of the burden and socio-territorial benefit from the urbanization process. Thus, the city, the fruit of collective work of a company shall be treated as a socially constructed space and the urban and environmental complexity inherent in it. And to minimize the problems common to this it is the Government and civil society seek to promote the welfare and environmental impacts through proposals for a sustainable city, since the aforementioned statute seeks to regulate the conduct of human populations, imposing control rules for the use of urban space in favor of the collective good, safety and welfare of the citizen to enable environmental sustainability. In order to study the City Statute, with regard to environmental issues in the municipality of Colinas do Tocantins, with emphasis on legal instruments dealing with the issue, analyzing the legal text for an interpretation by the doctrine that addresses the subject by checking whether it can be considered as an instrument to facilitate environmental conservation, and if there are obstacles in its implementation in the municipality under study. Besides the documentary literature was also conducted field research using the application of a questionnaire for the urban population living in the municipality. The study revealed that somehow there is application of the Statute in the municipality at the time that it already has a Master Plan, an important tool for urban and environmental policy brought by the City Statute. The Master Plano f the City of Hills (Municipal Law No 960/2006) was published in 2006, and as field research in the form of a questionnaire conducted in the urban area, he realized that there was little participation of civil in their development, much of population is not aware of it, which could be an obstacle in its application