Integrated management project of maritime orla. The experience of Campos dos Goytacazes municipality, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Abstract

In Campos dos Goytacazes municipality, the articulation of Orla Project involves the three branches of power and the representation of civil society. It started in December 2009 aiming to promote the sustainable management of the waterfront and ensure environmental preservation and coastal planning. The overall objective of this paper is to register the project implementation process, exposing met steps, stakeholder participation, issues of interest and results. The municipality is responsible for membership, and with civil society, by the most direct action in project. They work in diagnostic steps, subdivision into landscape units and stretches, uses surveys, problem identification and preparation of desired sce-narios. The conflicts over the use of natural areas come up against the already established activities and identified as generating issues such as trade, fisheries, tourism and civil construction. The PGI (Integrated Management Plan) was consolidated and submitted to the assessment of instructor of the Orla Project, in March 2014, who attested its adaptation to the specific methodology. Then it was sent to national and state technical coordination, which issued a favourable opinion with his remarks, recommendations and suggestions adequacy in December 2014. The PGI and the Steering Committee were finally approved in open court on 16 May 2015. It is noteworthy that it was the first approval in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Now occur the initial meetings of the Steering Committee and the guidelines that aim to consolidate the actions scheduled for the council’s edge.