PUBLIC POLICIES OF CONSERVATION SPATIAL PLANNING

The disordered occupation process of areas that should be preserved in relation to their frailty because of occupation, such as Permanent Preservation Areas (APPs) - margin, springs, slopes requires effective measures to enforce restriction on uses and occupation with the purpose of ordering the space. Given this reality, the action of the government becomes necessary in order to protect the environmentally fragile areas of occupation, as defined by law, and also those that are not yet occupied and maintain natural ecosystems, seeking to ensure the continuity of the environmental services that bring benefits to the quality of life and protect the population against risk. In this approach of considering protected areas as a tool for spatial planning, the article aims to analyze the conservation policies that impose restrictions on use, such as the Forest Code and the one that establishes the Conservation Units (CUs). As this is a theoretical discussion, the article was written through investigation in the literature. It can be observed that the Public Policy for Conservation, as the one that defines the APPs and CUs, is an additional component in spatial planning system, which is a dynamic process with the aim of assessing and planning the land use and natural resource management at various scales from national to local, taking into consideration both ecological balance and protection of environment and quality of life.