Governança e dimensão ambiental na política portuária internacional e brasileira : interesses e conflitos ao porto do Rio Grande - RS

Abstract

The first purpose of this dissertation is the analysis of global environmental governance and the case of the Brazilian port of Rio Grande. To this end, the work developed with the hypothesis that the regulatory instruments to protect the environment present in Brazilian ports policy have scoped the sustainability of port activity, in accordance with the dictates of the global environmental governance programme in the port area, which can be checked at the port of Rio Grande-RS. The overall objective of this work has focused on the identification of the main international conventions and treaties and the legal system of Brazil, of the instruments used as mechanisms to protect the environment in the port activities, analyzing the purpose of these instruments as well as develop a case study of the port of Rio Grande-RS. The complex nature of the problem to be investigated immediately in their methodological handling the deductive procedure, that allows to know particular aspects of a phenomenon, in particular with respect to environmental, economic and legal aspects of port activities. In this sense, this dissertation make considerations from the concept of global environmental governance, and enumerates the international treaties and agreements, as well as national legislation for the protection of the environment applicable to the subsector. The object of study is the port of Rio Grande, in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, considered by the Special Secretariat of ports of the Presidency of the Republic as one of the most environmentally responsible ports in the context of national port, one of the few with IBAMA's environmental license to operate, being highlighted their programs and environmental management projects.