Gestão Adaptativa na Etapa de Acompanhamento da Avaliação de Impacto Ambiental

ABSTRACT

Approaches based on adaptive management are an opportunity to improve the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) follow-up, considering the conceptual affinities between their structures. Some cases demonstrate an increase in adaptive capacity, based on experiential learning, despite a lack of governance arrangements able to guarantee the effective involvement of different parts of society in the decision-making process. Finally, adaptive management is a promising approach for EIA follow-up, which does not mean abrogating the principles of precaution and prevention that underlie EIA processes, serving as a mere palliative for situations whose environmental impacts might have been predicted and prevented.

KEYWORDS:
Environmental Impact Assessment; Adaptive management; Socioecological systems; Complexity; Uncertainty