The Environmental Rural Cadaster and Its Interface with Instruments of Environmental Regularization — Licensing and Water Permits

Ana Paula Bicalho de Mello

Federation of Agriculture and Livestock of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Abstract: This paper sought to inform about the Environmental Rural Cadaster (ERC), as well as the instruments of environmental licensing and of water permits, and the objectives of the National Policies of the Environment and of Water Resources connected to them. Finally, it was intended to draw potential interfaces between ERC and the instruments environmental licensing and water permits. It was verified that the objectives of these instruments have common aspects, and that the ERC could be refined with indicators and information enough in order to become a licensing instrument more adequate to the reality and dynamics of existing agricultural and livestock areas. Water management, however, should continue to be performed on the water basin.

Key words: environmental rural cadastre, rural licensing, water grant, permit