Criteria and indicators for public environmental auditorship in Conservation Units / Critérios e indicadores para auditoria ambiental pública em Unidades de Conservação

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

Although the creation of Conservation Units has been a widely used strategy by many countries to contain the increasing threat to their biomes, it is already a consensus in the literature that the mere definition of these areas through legal instruments is not enough to assure its efficiency. To this end, many governmental agencies, civil society organizations and research institutions have been constructing methodologies to make possible, not only the diagnosis of the Conservation Units, but also the establishment and consolidation of these practices. The development of criteria and indicators, and the creation of a methodology for public environmental auditorship in Conservation Units (PEA in CUs) is part of this flood of new attempts. The work centres on the necessity of generating conclusive and fast methods that allow the managers, employees and members of the superior inspection agencies, to identify the weaknesses and strengths, aiming at an efficient and continuously improvement of the results. Two stages had been initially defined for the auditorship to take place. The first one, with requirements coming from the pertinent legislation, called Public Environmental Auditorship of Legal Agreement. The second one, built with indicators from the literature and opinions, called Public Environmental Auditorship of Management Performance. After the determination of the requirements in these two stages there were discussion groups and interviews with professionals for evaluation of the indicators. The definitive spreadsheet has integrated two pilot auditorships, in the Catacumba and Prainha Municipal Natural Parks - Rio de Janeiro, RJ. The methodology was finalized with 54 requirements, amongst which 15 were selected for the pilot auditorship in Catacumba Park and 14 for Prainha Park. Totalizing the two stages of the methodology application, the Catacumba Park added eight Major Nonagreements, one Minor Non-Agreement and six Agreements. In Prainha, there were eight Major Non-Agreement, one Minor Non-Agreement and four Agreement. The main product of this dissertation, however, is the creation of the Guide with directrices for the development of Environmental Auditorships in Conservation Units, consisting of criteria and indicators, integrated and systematized in a methodology, so that the practices of auditorship in Conservation Units can be applied by public workers assigned for this task.

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indicators environmental auditing auditoria ambiental unidades de conservação gestão ambiental. conservation units conservacao da natureza indicadores environmental management

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