ANÁLISE DA SUSTENTABILIDADE DOS ECOSSISTEMAS RELACIONADA ÀS POLÍTICAS PÚBLICAS NO MUNICÍPIO DE BACURI, ÁREA DE PROTEÇÃO AMBIENTAL DAS REENTRÂNCIAS MARANHENSES, BRASIL

Abstract

Environmental matters have being progressively incorporated to the various social, economic and political sectors, promoting several discussions about the importance of the redirectioning for the public policies implementation. The manner in which these policies had or have been applied imposes the model in which mankind appeals to the environment, for the most part, degrading it. The current study has as objective to make an analysis of the ecosystems sustainability, relating to public policies in Bacuri municipal district, environmental protection area of Reentrâncias Maranhenses (Maranhão, Brazil), during the period from 1996 to 2003. Located at the western seashore of Maranhão State (1°15 -2°30 S and 45°00 -45°40 W), this municipal district presents a population apparently unprovided with services that attend to its basic necessities. Through inventory of public policies and characterization of local ecosystems, an analysis was carried out, investigating the main social and environmental impacts. Mangroves, salt flats, annually flooded forests, annually flooded grasslands and unflooded landscape units form the main ecosystems identified in Bacuri. The public policies inventoried with more significant reflexes were agricultural, fishery, educational, healthy, infrastructure and sanitation ones. The public policies implanted in the current management were considered inadequate, causing innumerable impacts on the local ecosystems, besides not elevating the population s life quality. The absence of these policies also constitutes a problematics whose reflexes compromise the quality of these ecosystems. The lack of planning and integration of these policies, of popular participation on the elaboration process and the public manager s incapacity compose the main causes for this situation.