Avaliação dos gastos públicos para financiamento do sistema municipal de unidades de proteção ambiental do Recife - PE: custos ideais x gastos reais

Abstract

Since the 1960s, the term environmental conservation has become more widely used, thus becoming a global need to be met. Therefore, the emergence of several studies that aim to assess public spending is important, in order to obtain greater financing aimed at increasing protected areas, analyzing opportunities, and improving the use of these resources. Therefore, the main objective of this study was to address the assessment of public expenditures for financing the Municipal System of Protected Areas of Recife in the State of Pernambuco. To achieve this objective, three central steps were necessary: In the first step, within the methodology of Mendes et al. (2017), we have 3 stages: the compilation of the legal frameworks of the City of Recife, the analysis of the Multi-Year Plans (PPA) and the examination of what was planned and what was carried out. In the second stage, a tool for financial modeling was used, thus estimating the average cost of the process of creating, consolidating, and maintaining a Conservation Unit and finally, through the TCU-PE website, data were collected about the resources transferred to the municipality of Recife, according to the Conservation Units, according to the socio-environmental ICMS criteria. The data indicated large divergences between expenditures and showed the opportunity that the City of Recife has to do a better job in its protected areas. The expenses per hectare of area are very low. For the Ucs to work correctly, spending 4 times higher than what is currently done would be necessary. In addition, it was verified that the socio-environmental ICMS could be used more in the PAs, thus improving their management. The elaboration of management plans for the UCs in Recife is an important instrument for the greater conservation of the city's protected areas. Therefore, works of this nature support the view that there is still a lot to be worked on about the management of environmental resources, especially in the Conservation Units of the City of Recife.