ANALISE DOS GASTOS PUBLICOS COM GESTAO AMBIENTAL NO BRASIL/ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC SPENDING WITH ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN BRAZIL

• Published in: RGSA : Revista de Gestão Social e Ambiental 2014-09, Vol.8 (3), p.52-52
• Main Authors: Dantas, Marina Kolland, Pacheco, Larissa Marchiori, Liboni, Lara Bartocci, Caldana, Adriana Cristina Ferreira
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 1981-982X

In this century the environmental agenda has come to occupy a prominent position in global reflections due to the negative impacts caused by human influence in the breakdown of ecosystem balance. Given this critical context, characterized by a wide range of cross-border and cross-generational problems, it is necessary to monitor and evaluate the performance of countries in protecting their natural resources. It is therefore essential to identify and characterize the share of public investment on environmental management. This research has a descriptive quantitative character and has employed documental analysis as a method, and developed a set of analysis on the Brazilian public spending on environmental management function and its sub functions over the period 2004-2011. In addition, the analysis of the national panorama was extended to the international scenario by means of the comparison with China and European Union countries. The main results show that environmental expenditures are still incipient face to the country's total public expenditure and less representative if compared internationally, showing a gap between the demands for environmental protection and the principles of sustainability on the current form of state action. The data and the performed analyzes represent a consistent and detailed diagnosis on public spending on the environmental area, essential to ensure the theoretical advance, transparency and improvement in decision making regarding the allocation of these resources in the country and, therefore, the results obtained in terms of social and environmental quality.