RESUMOEste estudo visou caracterizar os principais conflitos socioambientais decorrentes da construção das hidrelétricas de Santo Antônio e Jirau no Rio Madeira. Documentos sobre a temática foram as fontes dos dados e para tratamento foi adotada a análise de conteúdo. Ao todo, foram localizados mais de 600 documentos sobre conflitos socioambientais resultantes da construção das usinas do rio Madeira.
SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICTS REGARDING THE CONSTRUCTION OF HYDROELECTRIC POWER STATIONS OF SANTO ANTÔNIO AND JIRAU ON THE MADEIRA RIVER ABSTRACTThis study aims to characterize the main inherent socio-environmental conflicts regarding construction of hydroelectric power stations of Santo Antônio and Jirau on the Madeira River. The data sources were documents regarding the subject and content analysis was the adopted treatment. Altogether, more than 600 documents on the topic have been found and of those, 205 were found to contain relevant information for the study. The documents were further researched and organized using the software Atlas.ti 6 by Scientific Development Software and Microsoft Excel 2010. For conflict characterization, Paul Little's approach was adopted for the origin aspect and Gloria Vargas for the treatment of conflicts. The main identified conflicts were: Licensing; International; Ethnic -Indigenous; Madeira Mamoré Railroad, Triangulo Village, and Population displacement. The dispute for the natural resource control was identified as the main cause for the conflicts. Strategical Management was used as the means of treatment. Resistance blocks towards the hydroelectrical plant construction were detected, supported by more experienced nets with a wider influence of er. If the construction impediment was not obtained, the individuals who were affected by the Madeira River apparently obtained more advances than their peers when compared to previous similar events.