System of urban environmental quality indicators for coastal metropolis (SIMEC)

a proposal of integration between the indicators and the public policies incident in coastal urban agglomerations

Abstract

The present article associate a System of Urban Environmental Quality Indicators for Coastal Metropolis (SIMeC) to the incidents public polices to an effective and systemic analysis of the monitorated results by each indicator.  It is a system of indications already applied in the Metropolitan Regions of Recife (PE), Rio de Janeiro (RJ) and in the coastal urban cluster of Joinville (SC) that, in this study, had their indicators associated with 19 public policies incident in metropolitan regions and coastal urban agglomerations. This kind of relation has the objective of contribute to reduce the gap existent between the monitoring of urban agglomerations located in coastal areas and the eficiency of Public Policies.  From the begining, this article contribuition is at associating the Urban Environmental Quality to the specificities of the coastal areas and present an instrument to the integrated coastal management directly associated to the environmental public policies, urban and sectoral.

Keywords: Public Polices. Coastal Management. Urban Environmental Quality. Indicators.