Proposal for a terms of reference for the renewal of environmental licensing in shopping mall.
Brazil, United States, Environmental impact, Environmental Licensing, shopping.
Preserving the ecosystem is fundamental to maintaining life on earth, in order to recover what has already been lost, in terms of environmental devastation, a radical change is needed in the daily habits of the entire population. To this end, Environmental Legislation and Environmental Licensing can and should be inspection and control mechanisms to subsidize nature preservation and recovery actions. In Brazil, these mechanisms gained more relevance with the publication of the National Environmental Policy, in the 1980s. In the United States, despite the topic being dealt with earlier, in the 1960s, the subject is very little detailed and permissive, making the environmental control process fragile. In view of the above, this work aims to propose a term of reference for renewing the operating license in shopping malls, considering that these large-scale equipment are potential generators of significant environmental impacts. To achieve this objective, this research will carry out: (i) investigation of the licensing process of studies developed in shopping centers, through documentary, bibliographic, bibliometric, scientometrics and infometrics survey; (ii) analysis of didelphis albiventris as a bioindicator of the urban environment in a shopping mall and whether it can be used as an environmental monitoring mechanism; (iii) comparative study between Brazilian (Federal, State of Pernambuco and Municipal of Recife) and North American (Federal and State of California) legislation relating to licensing and indicators for monitoring environmental conditions for renewing the operating license in shopping malls ; (iv) proposal of a Term of Reference for monitoring environmental conditions, based on the results of comparative studies in comparison with the process of renewing the Operating License of a large shopping mall. In this way, it is expected that this research can contribute so that shopping mall environmental managers can have a standard established by the environmental agency and can define indicators that are permanently monitored and result in a quick and efficient process of renewing the Operations License.