Análise da atuação da Secretaria Municipal do Meio Ambiente de um município do oeste mineiro com base nos instrumentos da Política Nacional do Meio Ambiente e no art. 174 da Lei Orgânica Municipal

Abstract

The issue of the environment in Brazil is a subject that deserves great attention because it is linked to health and economic development issues, especially in the small Brazilian municipalities. To this end, the legislation, with emphasis on the Federal Constitution of 1988, seeks to regulate and guide the activities that must be carried out at the national, state and municipal levels throughout the territory, in order to preserve, prevent and restore environmental resources through policies and other regulations. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate how the activities of an environmental secretariat work in a small municipality in the western part of the state of Minas Gerais, with some instruments of the National Environmental Policy and Art. 174 of the Organic Law of this municipality, the environmental issue. Through this, it was possible to understand how these activities are performed, if they seek to attend to the said legislatures, in order to contribute to the construction of a scenario of their actions, aiming to improve the operation of their activities through the perception of their difficulties, seeking improve on these points.