Integrated analysis for environmental conservation: a study applied to the Paraúna State Park – Goiás

Abstract

This article intends to review theoretical frameworks that elucidates the conservation of natural environments in contrast to the progress of contemporary progressive society in the 21st century. For this, the use of studies corresponding to environmental planning, geoconservation, geodiversity and geological heritage, as well as the simplification of the law related to the environment, will provide the necessary support for the composition of this article. As an example of a spatial cut-off in order to understand the effective planning, management and environmental preservation policies in the Brazilian territory, and especially in the State of Goiás, a territorial study was applied to the Paraúna State Park located in the municipality of Paraúna. A priori, political-institutional inefficiencies of the representative bodies were diagnosed in the elaboration / execution of projects that aim at the conservation of the natural environments according to plan in Brazilian environmental legislation. The low indicative of terminology geoconservation and geological heritage in the legislation, absence of management plan, road access with high risk index and degradation of public assets are the main analyzes contemplated in this research.

Keywords: Paraúna State Park; geodiversity; geoconservation; SNUC.