Relação porto-cidade : sustentabilidade Porto de Santos

Abstract

This dissertation aimed to analyze the port-city relationship and the sustainability of these large enterprises in the cities that host them. The process of installing a sea port in a given region has its advantages, such as, for example, population density, the addition of vacancies in the local labor market, the valuation of urban space, even national knowledge and global region; however, this same undertaking can cause large-scale regional problems not previously suffered by the port city, such as, for example, air pollution and noise pollution, vehicle congestion, deforestation of estuarine areas, impact on the surroundings of the port, among others. to mitigate these negative effects, the process of assessing the area in which the project will be installed is considered necessary, analyzing it from the perspective of precaution and prevention, seeking to minimize any environmental impacts that degrade the ecologically balanced environment that was before of its installation, in this way national instruments and international conventions are searched for instruments that point the way to guarantee the sustainability of port cities. Thus, the question was asked: What are the existing national and international legal mechanisms for building a harmonious and sustainable relationship between the trinomial port, city and environment, avoiding environmental impacts resulting from this activity? For this purpose, the present work uses as an example the Porto de Santos, the largest national port and the largest in export and storage capacity in Latin America. The work developed under the bibliographic methodology and the hypothetical deductive method analyzed, in five chapters: the historical relationship between port-city and its modernization, the Porto de Santos and its historical evolution, economy and the loads it moves, then on the environmentally friendly environment balanced, the dimensions or generations of this fundamental right, sustainable development and the principles of environmental law, following the relationship between port, city and environment, the risk society that port cities face and the impacts of this activity, and the last chapter, on the pillars, environmental and urban policy instruments that try to mitigate the impacts caused by the port-city relationship on the environment.