Municipal Councils of the Environment
The Municipal Councils of the Environment have the purpose of sharing opinions and advising the municipal executive branch - the city hall, their secretariats and the municipal environmental organ - on issues related to the environment. In matters within its competence, it also acts as a deliberative, advisory and regulatory forum for decision making. The council?s tasks vary according to each municipality. In general, it is up to the council to propose the environmental policy of the municipality and monitor compliance; to promote environmental education; to propose the creation of legal norms, as well as the adequacy and regulation of municipal, state and federal laws, standards and norms; advise on environmental aspects of state and federal policies that impact the municipality; and receive and investigate complaints made by the population on environmental degradation, to which it suggests reasonable measures.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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