Proposta para Aumento de Eficiência na Manifestação Técnica de Licenciamento Ambiental do Órgão Gestor de Unidades de Conservação Estaduais do Amazonas

Abstract

The Amazon is essential for regional and global ecological processes, such as water cycling, carbon storage and biodiversity preservation. The state of Amazonas has 30.23% of its territory protected by Conservation Units (CUs), but the high economic potential of the region, including UCs for sustainable use, generates a high demand for environmental licensing, creating challenges for these processes within of the public bodies responsible for licensing. The general objective is to investigate the criteria and procedures used in environmental licensing processes, between 2022 and 2023, in state UCs for sustainable use in Amazonas, aiming to create guidelines that facilitate analysis by public agency technicians and increase procedural efficiency. The data collection and analysis methodology was divided into three stages: Stage 1 – Licensing processes, through the diagnosis of the current situation through the analysis of documents and environmental licensing processes in UCs for sustainable use in Amazonas by SEMA among the years 2022 to 2023; Stage 2 – Application of questionnaires, through a semi-structured questionnaire for technicians, analysts and UC managers involved in licensing; Stage 3 – Guidelines for environmental licensing in Amazonas. Based on the results obtained, improvements were proposed to optimize the procedural analysis of environmental licensing in the state UCs of Amazonas.