Environmental legislation and the importance of urban afforestation in the municipality of Campo Grande - Mato Grosso do Sul

The Federal Constitution of 1988 established the decentralization competence to legislate on environmental issue, and, consequently, municipality environment, including issue urban afforestation. objective this article is analyze afforestation, based legislation that deals with subject, diagnosing main problems derived from inadequate either by choosing wrong species or lack maintenance and monitoring chosen seedlings. In context, we also sought verify role played in order avoid impacts caused It was concluded that, despite importance protecting artificial environment existence a vast legal apparatus available for implementation not fully effective, lacking important technical aspects, which ends up leaving it subjective criteria respect tree be used.