O papel das secretarias estadual e municipal na gestão ambiental do litoral da cidade de João Pessoa

Abstract

The João Pessoa coastline contains ten beaches spread over 24 km and attracting many tourists. This region has varied coastal ecosystems, among which the cliffs and mangroves stand out. Given this, it is essential to have an efficient environmental management policy to keep these environments conserved. As a result, this paper seeks to evaluate how environmental management has been carried out on the coast of João Pessoa and the main interventions of the State and Municipal Secretariats with this responsibility. To this end, the entire coast of the city was covered describing the environmental situation of the ecosystems and making photographic records. As a complement to this information, informal interviews were conducted with representatives of these secretariats, to survey the interventions that have been carried out over the last years. The main results found were different impacts on ecosystems such as irregular disposal of solid waste and garbage on the beach, residential use through the expansion of residential land, sea pollution due to discharges of water polluted by rain and sewage galleries, urban occupation. Tents in natural environments. Based on these results, the need for an efficient environmental policy, the updating of legal instruments for the development of the city, the participation of organized civil society in actions concerning the degradation of coastal ecosystems, as well as the establishment of an environmental management program in these areas for the purpose of effective environmental management of the coastal city of João Pessoa.