RESPONSABILIDADE SOCIOAMBIENTAL DAS INDÚSTRIAS DE CELULOSE: REFLEXÕES A PARTIR DAS NORMATIVAS DO MUNICÍPIO DE TRÊS LAGOAS-MS

Abstract

The accelerated industrialization process experienced by the municipality of Três Lagoas-MS, driven by its consolidation as a national pulp production hub, highlights the contemporary challenge of reconciling economic development with environmental protection. In this context, the present study proposes an analysis of the socio-environmental responsibility of pulp industries based on the reading of the current municipal laws. The research starts from the understanding that environmental law can no longer be seen merely as a technical-normative apparatus, but as an instrument of social transformation and containment of the negative externalities of productive activity. The study adopts a theoretical approach grounded in contemporary Environmental Law doctrines and is centered on a reinterpretation of the social function of the company, linking it to a model of sustainable development under a constitutional perspective. It seeks to understand to what extent the municipality, through its local regulations, assigns concrete obligations to companies regarding the mitigation of environmental impacts and the adoption of compensatory practices. Municipal laws, such as the Environmental Code and the Master Plan, are analyzed as mechanisms for implementing the principles of precaution, prevention, socio-environmental function, and sustainable development. Based on doctrinal analysis, the work proposes a critical reflection on the legal-political role of companies and municipalities in the context of the environmental crisis and the exhaustion of the traditional productivist model. It argues that Municipal Environmental Law must occupy a prominent place in the consolidation of new forms of environmental regulation, promoting corporate responsibility that goes beyond the logic of minimal legality and is guided by ecological ethics and intergenerational justice.