The interdisciplinary has been a constant theme in discussions about human knowledge, and its possibilities according to what Morin (2002) calls the "XXI century challenge", in other words, the necessity of understanding and solving the multidimensional current problems, like the ones caused by interaction between the natural, social, economic and technological processes. Basing on this perspective, the Minas Gerais Environmental and Sustainable Development Secretary, since 2003, has promoted the use of the interdisciplinary approach in analyzing the environmental licensing, through various actions and procedures that look for the convergence and integration of the environmental analysts knowledge of their environmental analysts. In this sense this article presents the procedures of insertion of interdisciplinarity in analysis of environmental licensing proceedings from Minas Gerais State. Based on examples of the Preliminary License Process about large sugar cane industry, tried at the Council on Environmental Policy of Triangulo Mineiro e Alto Paranaíba, MG, this paper presents, therefore, the procedures of insertion of interdisciplinarity in analyses of environmental licensing proceedings from Minas Gerais State, elucidates its contribution to formulation of new strategies and ways of thinking to assess the environmental impacts and the difficulties to its adoption.
Environmental License; Interdisciplinarity; Environmental Planning
