TERRITORIALIDADE E A GESTÃO PÚBLICA DOS AMBIENTES NATURAIS DO RIO DE JANEIRO TERRITORIALITY AND PUBLIC MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS IN RIO DE JANEIRO

The Brazilian people are proud to have an environmental law considered the most complete and modern planet. However, pride turns to disappointment when individuals and organizations subvert the legal mechanisms to achieve their goals without worrying about the environmental damage and social conflicts that potentiate their actions. This paper uses as methodological strategies a literature review of publications that discuss the construction of the two projects, a historical survey of the growth of the metropolitan region of the state of Rio de Janeiro and a guided critique the concept of territoriality and conflict and environmental vulnerabilities environmental sciences in order to observe the legal manipulations, flexibilities and arrangements in environmental legislation to which the projects are built. Showed that public and private interests can overwhelm any legal provision that arises as preventing these actions, the reductionist discourse minimizes the criticism and environmental conflicts are recurrent in these situations.