This article details a research work that discusses how environmental issues have been addressed in the instruments and management practices in two territorial areas: municipalities and watersheds. The environmental relationship of the regional and municipal management was analyzed using the Watershed Plans and the Municipal Master Plans, located at the Management Unit of Tietê-Jacaré Water Resources - State of São Paulo. The research subjects selected were the Tietê-Jacaré Watershed Plan and the Master Plans of Araraquara and São Carlos. The study focused on the following analysis categories: the environmental instruments used in the Watershed Plans and the Master Plans, management events and the degree of influence of the plans analyzed. The method was based on surveys, bibliographic and documentary analysis, semistructured interviews and questionnaires. The results showed that there are still gaps and difficulties in the watershed plan to perform a more expanded management planning. It does not acknowledge the conflicts related to land use and territorial organization as a vulnerability that must be addressed. It also showed that the municipal master plans focus on the application of these instruments for urban subdivision and zoning. In these plans, the conditions and regional and environmental aspects are presented as a peripheral issue, which are rarely coordinated with the other policies. The analyses performed sought to demonstrate the complex relationship between policies, instruments and planning and management events, describing the obstacles that interfere with the application of the integrated territorial management concept.
Urban environmental management; Regional management; Watershed Plans; Municipal Master Plans; Integrated territorial management