O lugar do desenvolvimento sustentável nas políticas públicas belorizontinas

Abstract

The environmental issue and its structuring was a tortuous process until it reached the premises of sustainable development, both in the international context and at the local level. In the case of the city of Belo Horizonte, this was no different. The present work will present a brief history of the process of emergence of environmental issues worldwide and in Brazil, in order to analyze it in Belo Horizonte. In addition, the work will also address the evolution of concepts and the interpretation of what has been identified as "environmental problems", as well as the incorporation of the term "sustainable development" in urban policy in Belo Horizonte. In order to investigate this process, it was necessary to draw up a timeline of international landmarks about the history of environmental discussion, associating them with Brazil. Subsequently, associating the timeline and it landmarks, it was pointed out how these marks reflected in Belo Horizonte’s history and what were the definitions and strategies taken from that. Finally, urban policy was identified as a strong propagator of sustainable development in the management of the city, so the analysis narrowed down to its main instruments that had a strand in this direction.