Desenvolvimento da MAIA - Matriz de Indicadores de Adequação jurídica do espaço rural a legislação ambiental brasileira

Abstract

The consequences of climate change are leading science towards the development of alternative ways in regards to sustainable development, through improvements in productivity and in the use of natural resources, reducing environmental impacts. Constitutional and infra-constitutional environmental legislation have indicators to support the creation of a matrix that would make way for an assessment of how much rural spaces comply with federal environmental legislation. In this context, this paper aims to develop and deploy the M.I.L.A (the Matrix of Indicators for the Legal Adequacy of rural areas), based on the Brazilian environmental legislation on rural properties. For this purpose, we proposed the following research question: Which indicators extracted from Brazilian federal environmental legislation could compose a matrix that would measure the level of adequacy of rural properties to the federal environmental legislation? In order to answer the research problem, we reviewed essays and federal legal provisions contained in several sources, such as the Constitution, Decrees and Laws that are applicable to rural areas, thus converting them into indicators. The methodology used for the development of M.I.L.A puts forward a tool composed of ten modules. Each module is made up of indicators extracted from the legislation. The deployment of M.I.L.A was carried out in ten modules, by sending questionnaires to farmers in the City of Marechal Candido Rondon-PR. The outcome is a matrix of indicators of how much rural spaces comply with Brazilian federal environmental legislation, which enabled us to assess any individual rural property’s compliance with federal legislation. While deploying M.I.L.A, the properties that answered the survey showed a level of compliance with the federal environmental legislation of 74%, which indicates that rural properties tend to adapt to the environmental legislation.