The Ongoing Danger of Large-Scale Mining on the Rio Doce: An Account of Brazil’s Largest Biocultural Disaster

Espindola, Haruf Salmen; Guerra, Cláudio B.

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“…Deterritorialization is amongst of the major impacts that large enterprises have on local populations. The deterritorialization of families, in general members of family farmers, occurs due to the interest of industries and companies in territorializing the space occupied by these families (Lima and Vasconcelos 2013;Espindola and Guerra 2018;Silva et al 2020). Following the creation of DISJB, the actions for family's expropriation began together with other land-based interferences conducted by the companies that idealized and worked on the Açu PIC construction through direct negotiation with land owners.…”

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Socio-economic impacts of a maritime industrial development area (MIDA) model in Latin America: the case of the Açu Port-Industrial Complex

Neves

Lopes

Naveira

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WMU J Marit Affairs

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Maritime industrial development areas (MIDAs) have been designed as important models to promote regional industrialization and accelerate its economic growth. The Port-Industrial Complex (PIC) of Açu is considered the most audacious and great initiative in South America. Its chosen location was a rural and barely populated municipality in the Southeastern Brazil, where farming population was subjected to land expropriation for the creation of an industrial district. Thus, the present study aimed to evaluate direct impacts of PIC installation and operation on the life quality of human population. For that, demographic (population size, live births) and economic indicators (royalties, gross domestic product, gross domestic product per capita ) were compiled between 2000 and 2020 and statistically analyzed for temporal changes. Significant positive trends were found for all the five socioeconomic indicators, but annual variations were overall more pronounced for economic than demographic indicators. Installation and operation of Açu PIC brought undeniable local positive impacts and caused significant increases in population size, royalties, and gross domestic products. However, the rates of changes varied in scale and time for each indicator, reflecting additive interferences of local, regional, and even global events and governmental policies over the socioeconomic status of the human population affected by MIDA project. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13437-021-00261-z.

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confidence: 99%

Socio-economic impacts of a maritime industrial development area (MIDA) model in Latin America: the case of the Açu Port-Industrial Complex

Neves

Lopes

Naveira

et al. 2022

WMU J Marit Affairs

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Biocultural Homogenization: A Wicked Problem in the Anthropocene

Rozzi

2018

From Biocultural Homogenization to Biocultural Conservation

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Mining Disasters in Brazil

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Antunes

Ramos

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Case Studies in the Environment

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The ruptures of two iron ore dams in two municipalities of southeastern Brazil have caused immeasurable economic, social, and environmental damages. This case report describes the ruptures of Mariana dam in 2015 and the Brumadinho dam in 2019, as well as their causes and consequences. The companies responsible for managing the dams are Mineradora Samarco and Vale S.A. We analyze the “Risk and Disaster Communication” activities implemented by those companies. Moreover, it was difficult to access information about the affected communities, as the responsible companies failed to communicate throughout the incidents. As a result of this lack of communication and searching for answers and strategies to ensure a space capable of expanding access to information in an updated and reliable way for the population of the affected territories, we developed the Disaster Information Monitoring System (SIGDesastre). We think that by mapping communication devices and concentrating them in a virtual space it is possible to elicit nonhegemonic discourse, creating new knowledge and contributing to improvements in the risk communication process.

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The Ongoing Danger of Large-Scale Mining on the Rio Doce: An Account of Brazil’s Largest Biocultural Disaster

Cited by 3 publications

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Socio-economic impacts of a maritime industrial development area (MIDA) model in Latin America: the case of the Açu Port-Industrial Complex

Socio-economic impacts of a maritime industrial development area (MIDA) model in Latin America: the case of the Açu Port-Industrial Complex

Biocultural Homogenization: A Wicked Problem in the Anthropocene

Mining Disasters in Brazil

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