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€18.9 billion and €32.3 billion by mid-century. 4.1.3 ORLA Project conservation of environmental quality needs Economy presupposes an integration, as
This scenario is the object of the National spaces to occur. These spaces are more com- far as possible, with the Orla project.
Program for the Conservation of the Coast- The ORLA Project was formally inserted in plex than just a portion of the territory. Santos It should be noted that since 2018 the
line (PROCOSTA), which was created based the context of the public policies of the CZ (1996) considers this space as an insepara- ORLA structure has been undergoing a re-
on the set of climate changes associated by Decree 5,300/04 from the definition of a ble set of object systems and action systems, view process, both from a technical and con-
with the natural dynamics and economic and new geographic space for the management which present internal analytical categories, ceptual point of view and from an institu-
social processes identified in recent years in of the territory: the shoreline (land and sea). such as landscape, territorial configuration, tional and political point of view. This review
the country. This Program was established Created in the late 1990s with a method- territorial division of labor, produced or pro- is due to a new element that was established
through MMA Ordinance number 76/2018 ological scope and a flow of specific actions ductive space, roughness, among others. in 2015, through Law 13,240, which deals
and aims to promote the integrated manage- (on a local scale), the ORLA Project aims to In this sense, the shoreline is the most with the Term of Adhesion to the Manage-
ment of the coastline, its technical-scientific optimize the planning of coastal spaces un- direct link between a Blue Economy fo- ment of Maritime Beaches (TAGP). This term
knowledge, its variations according to ex- der the Union’s control, bringing together en- cused on the oceans and its dependencies provides for the transfer of beach manage-
treme events and climate change, multiple vironmental, urban and heritage policies (OL- and reflections on the CZ (logistics, eco- ment from the Union Heritage Secretariat
uses and protection of marine and coastal IVEIRA; NICOLODI, 2012) with other sectors, system services, etc.). Thinking about the (SPU) to the Municipalities, according to a
ecosystems (PROCOSTA, 2018). This Program providing opportunities for local economic development of a MSP that will become specific procedure to be adopted by the mu-
brought an unprecedented character to the development, environmental conservation, the basis of strategic planning for the Blue nicipalities (SCHERER et al. 2020).
set of instruments and tools of the ICM, since and public participation.
it deals, in an integrated way and from the The ORLA project carries in its scope 5. Final considerations
perspective of Ecosystem-based Manage- some specificities in relation to the format
ment, of four central axes for coastal man- of social participation in the definition of There is no doubt that the development the Marine Spatial Planning (MSP). It is up
agement: a) Compatibility of altimetry with actions and guidelines that will be applied of a Blue Economy tends to bring significant to the country to give a high degree of pri-
bathymetry; b) Projection of Future Coast- on the edge of a municipality. Another par- gains to Brazilian society. These gains go be- ority to these systems and maintain/develop
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lines and Hazard Identification; c) Coastal ticularity of the ORLA project concerns the yond the value measured in Reais (Brazilian them in the most integrated way possible,
Risk and Adaptation Strategies; and d) Mon- scale of this planning in coastal spaces. The currency) and include social and environ- reducing conflicts of interest in the sectors
itoring and Management for the Conserva- concept of edge adopted refers to a small mental factors. But paradigms and conjunc- due to the use of resources or space.
tion of the Coastline - Although the ordi- space, which needs detailing from the point tures rooted in a system cannot be broken Ecosystem-based management is at the
nance, in its Art. 3, provides for PROCOSTA of view of territorial planning, even though overnight. The effective adoption of the Blue heart of the Blue Economy concept. But it
to be implemented by the Ministry of the most of the processes that impact it occur Economy will be gradual and must consid- needs to be effective and active. The best
Environment, in 2019 the Program had its beyond its limits. Moraes (2004) defines the er some basic factors, without which it will way to achieve this goal is to insert/adapt it
development discontinued, as well as prac- shore as the immediate maritime edge of a not be representative: Integration between to pre-existing management instruments or
tically the entire ICM agenda in the country. larger spatial unit, which, in Brazilian plan- economic sectors, Management based on those to be developed. Having the defini-
While the CZMD works at the federal scale ning, is defined as the CZ, formed by the ecosystems and Regional Planning. tion of ecosystems and ecosystem services
and the ORLA Project focuses on the local municipal territories of the coast. The integration between economic sec- as part of the territorial basis of a planning
scale, PROCOSTA aims at acting on a region- Since the Orla Project is the public policy tors is a key process for the success of this instrument is crucial for achieving the ob-
al scale, being the first coastal management with the most direct impact on the shoreline, task and Brazil already has two manage- jectives of a sustainable, wealth-generating
instrument developed since its genesis under its representativeness in terms of the devel- ment systems that have already been creat- and socially just economy model.
the aegis of ecosystem-based management. opment of a Blue Economy gains relevance. ed from the perspective of integration and Thinking through this whole model
This configuration is in line with the precepts The connection between an ecosystem-based another that is in the gestation phase: The presupposes the definition of a compati-
of the Blue Economy and also with the meth- management, generation of wealth, improve- Coastal Management System (GERCO), the ble geographic scale. Without belittling or
odology used to develop the MSP. ment of local productive arrangements and Water Resources Management System and disregarding the importance of local and

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