Os crimes ambientais no município de Serra-ES : ações e contradições dos agentes envolvidos

Abstract

The environmental issue has assumed an increasingly important role, both by the constant advance of urbanization on the natural resources and transformation of the landscapes, as well as by the need of its preservation and conservation to guarantee an environmentally balanced environment. Being the municipality of Serra, part of this context, this paper proposes to analyze the issue of environmental crimes and their relations with municipal public spaces, identifying the spaces of occurrences and their main socio-environmental consequences, as a way to contribute to a redefinition of public policies and of valorization of the resources and the municipal public spaces. The methodology used, besides the bibliographical research, was the data collection with the Criminal Courts of the Forum of the municipality of Serra, through consultation to the books of registry of criminal actions referring to the period from 2005 to 2015. By means of these were located the numbers of the processes of denunciations of environmental crimes offered by the Public Ministry to the Judiciary (Criminal Actions), which allowed the identification of the particular characteristics of the investigated occurrences, thus providing an analysis of registered environmental crimes. Of the universe of 166 criminal actions identified and investigated during the period studied, the most important types of crimes against the environment were those against the fauna, with 65 criminal actions, followed by pollution crimes with 49 actions, and then, Crimes against flora, with 46 criminal actions. Public spaces, highlighting free spaces and vegetated spaces, were identified as the most affected by actions to damage the environment, recording the highest number of occurrences.