OS ECOSSISTEMAS DUNARES E A LEGISLAÇÃO AMBIENTAL BRASILEIRA

Abstract

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/geouerj.2013.5546   Brazil covers various ecosystems, including the dune, a complex endowed with naturalfeatures interdependent and interconnected among them, mobile and fixed dunes,deflation plains and beaches. However, the current Brazilian environmental legislationat the federal level does not seem to understand and / or consider such relevant features,in view of the Federal Law Nº 12.651-2012 (Forestry Code) which presents the fixeddunes as a feature separate from the others, characterizing them as PermanentPreservation Areas and other features of the dune ecosystem, no. The paper presentsscientific concepts and legal reasoning that the dunes are treated as an ecosystem andthat this is protected under federal law under this fundamental premise, under the samerisks that the alleged sectorized legal protection is compromised by forms of historicaland current use and occupation of the ecosystem in the country.