THE DUNE ECOSYSTEMS AND THE BRAZILIAN ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION

Authors

  • Mônica Virna de Aguiar Pinheiro Doutoranda em Ciências Marinhas Tropicais (Instituto de Ciências do Mar - Labomar – Universidade Federal do Ceará, UFC)
  • Marcelo Martins Moura-Fé Universidade Federal do Ceará Departamento de Geografia Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia Doutorando em Geografia
  • Eduardo Marcelo de Negreiros Freitas Defensor Público Federal, Professor Universitário (Faculdade Nordeste - FANOR)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/geouerj.2013.5546

Keywords:

Dune ecosystems, Environmental Law, Environment, Permanent Preservation Areas and the Brazilian Forest Code.

Abstract

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/geouerj.2013.5546

 

Brazil covers various ecosystems, including the dune, a complex endowed with naturalfeatures interdependent and interconnected among them, mobile and fixed dunes,deflation plains and beaches. However, the current Brazilian environmental legislationat the federal level does not seem to understand and / or consider such relevant features,in view of the Federal Law Nº 12.651-2012 (Forestry Code) which presents the fixeddunes as a feature separate from the others, characterizing them as PermanentPreservation Areas and other features of the dune ecosystem, no. The paper presentsscientific concepts and legal reasoning that the dunes are treated as an ecosystem andthat this is protected under federal law under this fundamental premise, under the samerisks that the alleged sectorized legal protection is compromised by forms of historicaland current use and occupation of the ecosystem in the country.

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Published

2014-06-09

How to Cite

Pinheiro, M. V. de A., Moura-Fé, M. M., & Freitas, E. M. de N. (2014). THE DUNE ECOSYSTEMS AND THE BRAZILIAN ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION. Geo UERJ, 2(24). https://doi.org/10.12957/geouerj.2013.5546

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 24 (2013): Jul/Dez

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