Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1590/1809-4422asoc20190031r3vu2021l3ao
Silvia Sayuri Mandai, Raphaela Martins de Carvalho, Marcelo Marini Pereira de Souza
Abstract The state of São Paulo has a history of habitat loss and fragmentation in endemic areas with projects that threaten its biodiversity. Therefore, this study analyzed how the Environmental Impact Statements (EISs) of mining activities of the state of São Paulo (2005-2016) considered the biodiversity theme in different chapters. To analyze the ten selected EISs, we used the Index of Biodiversity Inclusion (IBI), which reflects the analysis of environmental indicators (from 0 to 1), depending on the commitment presented in each of the indicators. The IBI values ranged from 0.25 to 0.67 with significant variation among EISs. Most of them partially met the criteria, which was a profile similar to other countries, representing information gaps in most of the chapters covering biodiversity. The shortcomings were data limitation, impact analysis, and inadequate mitigation measures, in which the study highlights the need for a better scoping definition previous to Environmental Impact Assessment.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1590/1809-4422asoc20190226r2vu2021l3ao
Ricardo Tschaen, Fabrício Cardoso de Mello, T. L. D. Rosa
Abstract The aim of the current article is to analyze vulnerability in the municipality of Anchieta, Espírito Santo State (ES), Southeastern Brazil, as a historical process, by taking into consideration the implementation of the mining company Samarco in the 1970s as part of the large-scale industrial project policy put in place in the state. Assumingly, as modernization advances, disaster risks emerge within a context of territorial vulnerability, whose effects are not limited to a specific moment in time. Based on interviews conducted with the local population and on consultations in macro-economic data, the study has identified that (1) the vulnerability of Anchieta is correlated to the global modernization process, to the core-periphery model implemented in Latin America and to neoextractivist mining-dependency; (2) the territorial heteronomy renders Anchieta dependent on Samarco operations. In light of Fundão dam’s disaster in the municipality of Mariana, Minas Gerais State (MG), the vulnerability of Anchieta became evident after Samarco operations were interrupted.
{"title":"NEOXTRATIVISM AND THE SAMARCO DISASTER: HISTORICAL CONSTRUCTION OF VULNERABILITY IN ANCHIETA (ES, BRAZIL) IN A MINING-DEPENDENCY CONTEXT","authors":"Ricardo Tschaen, Fabrício Cardoso de Mello, T. L. D. Rosa","doi":"10.1590/1809-4422asoc20190226r2vu2021l3ao","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-4422asoc20190226r2vu2021l3ao","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The aim of the current article is to analyze vulnerability in the municipality of Anchieta, Espírito Santo State (ES), Southeastern Brazil, as a historical process, by taking into consideration the implementation of the mining company Samarco in the 1970s as part of the large-scale industrial project policy put in place in the state. Assumingly, as modernization advances, disaster risks emerge within a context of territorial vulnerability, whose effects are not limited to a specific moment in time. Based on interviews conducted with the local population and on consultations in macro-economic data, the study has identified that (1) the vulnerability of Anchieta is correlated to the global modernization process, to the core-periphery model implemented in Latin America and to neoextractivist mining-dependency; (2) the territorial heteronomy renders Anchieta dependent on Samarco operations. In light of Fundão dam’s disaster in the municipality of Mariana, Minas Gerais State (MG), the vulnerability of Anchieta became evident after Samarco operations were interrupted.","PeriodicalId":35241,"journal":{"name":"Ambiente e Sociedade","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67252584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1590/1809-4422asoc20200140r2vu2021l4ao
Yanine Rozo Leguizamón, Diego Armando Ospina Cortés, A. Rivera, A. López
Abstract The Kankuamo people from Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta [SNSM], Colombia, are undergoing a process of recovering their local knowledge and self-determination as an indigenous people; however, exogenous information affects their decisions and contributes to their acculturation. In this contr nnovative ones recommended by the Colombian Agricultural Research Corporation [AGROSAVIA]. This study seeks to contribute to the construction of a Hybrid Methodology that integrates the two positions by identifying emerging points of intersection in social, cultural, agro-environmental, political, and economic activities in its territory. It concludes on the need to align technological innovation strategies with the “Law of Origin” that governs the life of its people in the search for “good living”, to adopt them without detriment to their autonomy and cosmogony.
来自哥伦比亚圣玛尔塔内华达山脉(Sierra of Santa Marta)的坎库莫人(Kankuamo)正在经历一个恢复土著知识和自决的过程。然而，外生信息影响他们的决策，并有助于他们的文化适应。这是哥伦比亚农业研究公司[AGROSAVIA]推荐的创新方法。本研究旨在构建一种混合方法论，通过识别其领土内社会、文化、农业环境、政治和经济活动的交叉点，将两种立场整合在一起。它的结论是，需要将技术创新战略与管理其人民生活以寻求“美好生活”的“起源法”结合起来，在不损害其自主性和宇宙起源的情况下采用这些战略。
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1590/1809-4422asoc20200096r1vu2021l4td
Denisse Roca-Servat, Juan David Arias-Henao, María Botero-Mesa
Abstract The current civilizational crisis raises challenges on the care of the commons, among them water occupies a crucial place. In this context it is essential to rethink water, from other epistemic and ontological approaches, that resist the determinism of neoliberal capitalism, the monoculture of modern eurocentric science and the anthropocentric-patriarchal domination of nature. Departing from Latin American political ecology, in first place, we carry out a critical review of hegemonic approaches to water. Then, we present two decolonial proposals for relating with the commons, in particular with water: communality, and community entanglements. Finally, the scope of these proposals is discussed as alternatives to the civilizational crisis, and their contribution to the understanding of water, from a decolonial, relational and ecological perspective.
{"title":"Decolonizing hegemonic approaches of water: exploring Latin American proposals for communality and community entanglements","authors":"Denisse Roca-Servat, Juan David Arias-Henao, María Botero-Mesa","doi":"10.1590/1809-4422asoc20200096r1vu2021l4td","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-4422asoc20200096r1vu2021l4td","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The current civilizational crisis raises challenges on the care of the commons, among them water occupies a crucial place. In this context it is essential to rethink water, from other epistemic and ontological approaches, that resist the determinism of neoliberal capitalism, the monoculture of modern eurocentric science and the anthropocentric-patriarchal domination of nature. Departing from Latin American political ecology, in first place, we carry out a critical review of hegemonic approaches to water. Then, we present two decolonial proposals for relating with the commons, in particular with water: communality, and community entanglements. Finally, the scope of these proposals is discussed as alternatives to the civilizational crisis, and their contribution to the understanding of water, from a decolonial, relational and ecological perspective.","PeriodicalId":35241,"journal":{"name":"Ambiente e Sociedade","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67252642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1590/1809-4422ASOC20190229R1VU2021L1DE
Bruno Fornillo
Abstract The article characterizes the causes that led to the recent incorporation of renewable energy in Uruguay, asks about the predominance of public or private property, the type of decentralization promoted by new energies and characterizes the type of modification of the model of development in the country. One of the objectives of the article is to discuss how the energy transition is conceived in the country and in general. Based on secondary literature and multiple interviews, the central hypothesis is that Uruguay has faced a renewal of its energy matrix, but it has conditions to end up heading toward a just energy transition based on the public-social capacities present in the country.
{"title":"Energy transition in Uruguay: market dominance or public-social power?","authors":"Bruno Fornillo","doi":"10.1590/1809-4422ASOC20190229R1VU2021L1DE","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-4422ASOC20190229R1VU2021L1DE","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The article characterizes the causes that led to the recent incorporation of renewable energy in Uruguay, asks about the predominance of public or private property, the type of decentralization promoted by new energies and characterizes the type of modification of the model of development in the country. One of the objectives of the article is to discuss how the energy transition is conceived in the country and in general. Based on secondary literature and multiple interviews, the central hypothesis is that Uruguay has faced a renewal of its energy matrix, but it has conditions to end up heading toward a just energy transition based on the public-social capacities present in the country.","PeriodicalId":35241,"journal":{"name":"Ambiente e Sociedade","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67252666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1590/1809-4422asoc20200059r2vu2021l3de
F. M. A. Collaço, C. Bermann
Abstract This study analyzes the local energy planning (LEP), a set of urban energy strategies and potential scope, for São Paulo from 2014 to 2030. A simulation model is used to quantify the impacts of implementing LEP strategies on the city’s energy system based on three indicators: energy demand, percentage usage of renewable sources, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The performance of LEP strategies was analyzed for two scenarios: the first reproduces the city policies in force, and the second expands the population’s access to city energy services. Considering the implementation of LEP in the first scenario, the city exhibits a 65% usage of renewable energy and a 43% reduction in GHG emissions in 2030. Furthermore, implementation of the same strategies in the second scenario, also for 2030, results in a 67% usage of renewable energy with a 24% reduction in emissions compared to 2014.
{"title":"Local Energy Planning Potentialities in Reducing São Paulo’s Inequalities","authors":"F. M. A. Collaço, C. Bermann","doi":"10.1590/1809-4422asoc20200059r2vu2021l3de","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-4422asoc20200059r2vu2021l3de","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study analyzes the local energy planning (LEP), a set of urban energy strategies and potential scope, for São Paulo from 2014 to 2030. A simulation model is used to quantify the impacts of implementing LEP strategies on the city’s energy system based on three indicators: energy demand, percentage usage of renewable sources, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The performance of LEP strategies was analyzed for two scenarios: the first reproduces the city policies in force, and the second expands the population’s access to city energy services. Considering the implementation of LEP in the first scenario, the city exhibits a 65% usage of renewable energy and a 43% reduction in GHG emissions in 2030. Furthermore, implementation of the same strategies in the second scenario, also for 2030, results in a 67% usage of renewable energy with a 24% reduction in emissions compared to 2014.","PeriodicalId":35241,"journal":{"name":"Ambiente e Sociedade","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67252697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1590/1809-4422asoc20200089r2vu2021l3ao
C. Silva, A. Cosenza
Abstract Far from studying only beings from the past, Paleontology is a current science which can situate human existence in the context of the global environmental crisis before inequalities and socio-environmental conflicts which occur in Brazilian paleontological sites. Aiming to discuss possible connections between Paleontology and Environmental Justice, this essay arises from a survey on environmental conflicts existing in the paleontological sites in Minas Gerais. Stemming from the issues found and the contribution of the Political Ecology theoretical framework, the struggle for territory and decoloniality is discussed as crucial dimensions for a view that seeks to restore the populations’ right to their (paleo) territories. The connections between these fields are presented here as references for the fight against the social inequalities found in paleontological sites, such as those in Minas Gerais, and for the inclusion of their communities in participatory management.
{"title":"PALEONTOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: MAKING CONNECTIONS THROUGH POLITICAL ECOLOGY","authors":"C. Silva, A. Cosenza","doi":"10.1590/1809-4422asoc20200089r2vu2021l3ao","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-4422asoc20200089r2vu2021l3ao","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Far from studying only beings from the past, Paleontology is a current science which can situate human existence in the context of the global environmental crisis before inequalities and socio-environmental conflicts which occur in Brazilian paleontological sites. Aiming to discuss possible connections between Paleontology and Environmental Justice, this essay arises from a survey on environmental conflicts existing in the paleontological sites in Minas Gerais. Stemming from the issues found and the contribution of the Political Ecology theoretical framework, the struggle for territory and decoloniality is discussed as crucial dimensions for a view that seeks to restore the populations’ right to their (paleo) territories. The connections between these fields are presented here as references for the fight against the social inequalities found in paleontological sites, such as those in Minas Gerais, and for the inclusion of their communities in participatory management.","PeriodicalId":35241,"journal":{"name":"Ambiente e Sociedade","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67252887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1590/1809-4422asoc20200190r1vu2021l5ao
R. M. Vilani, J. O. D. Cruz, M. Pedlowski
Abstract The aim of this article is to analyze the dynamics that marked the coexistence between different actors in the environmental conflict caused by the salinization of surface and underground waters during the implantation of the Açu Port, in the municipality of São João da Barra, which is located in the Northern Fluminense region. The work seeks to demonstrate the links between this particular conflict and the profile of the major projects established to expand Brazil’s insertion in the world economy as an exporter of primary and semi-benefited products. From a methodological point of view, the work used a qualitative methodology based on a bibliographic and documentary survey related to the environmental impacts and conflicts caused by the Açu Port. The research results demonstrate the importance of having a transparent, participatory decision-making process guided by the sustainability of state actions in the planning and implementation of Large Investment Projects.
摘要:本文的目的是分析位于北弗鲁米嫩塞地区的s o jo o da Barra市阿帕拉图港建设过程中，地表和地下水盐碱化引起的环境冲突中不同参与者之间共存的动态。这项工作力求说明这一特殊冲突与为扩大巴西作为初级和半受益产品出口国在世界经济中的地位而制订的主要项目的概况之间的联系。从方法论的角度来看，这项工作使用了一种基于书目和文献调查的定性方法，这些调查与阿帕拉图港造成的环境影响和冲突有关。研究结果表明，在大型投资项目的规划和实施中，以国家行动的可持续性为指导，建立一个透明、参与性的决策过程非常重要。
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1590/1809-4422asoc20200093r2vu2021l4td
Israel de Jesus Rocha
Abstract Uranium mining in Brazil has raised numerous questions from diverse actors in civil society, social movements and public authorities. This article aims to describe how uranium production becomes a public issue based on technoscientific reports produced by institutions and research groups interested in presenting a diagnosis of the situation surrounding the mine in Caetité, Bahia, Brazil. After outlining the reports, we describe the emergence of a demand for monitoring and greater transparency as a way of regulating uranium production in the region, especially linked to the health of residents and workers and the contamination of the environment and water bodies. The role of scientists expands the articulation of strategies developed by local and non-local social movements concerned with nuclear problems to make the consequences of nuclear energy and its production chain a public issue.
{"title":"Technoscientific reports, nuclearity and uranium production in Caetité/BA as a public issue","authors":"Israel de Jesus Rocha","doi":"10.1590/1809-4422asoc20200093r2vu2021l4td","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-4422asoc20200093r2vu2021l4td","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Uranium mining in Brazil has raised numerous questions from diverse actors in civil society, social movements and public authorities. This article aims to describe how uranium production becomes a public issue based on technoscientific reports produced by institutions and research groups interested in presenting a diagnosis of the situation surrounding the mine in Caetité, Bahia, Brazil. After outlining the reports, we describe the emergence of a demand for monitoring and greater transparency as a way of regulating uranium production in the region, especially linked to the health of residents and workers and the contamination of the environment and water bodies. The role of scientists expands the articulation of strategies developed by local and non-local social movements concerned with nuclear problems to make the consequences of nuclear energy and its production chain a public issue.","PeriodicalId":35241,"journal":{"name":"Ambiente e Sociedade","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67252552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1590/1809-4422asoc20200026r3vu2021l4de
Ana Lía Guerrero
Abstract This article aims to analyze global and regional South American contexts of the on-going energy transition, from a territorial and geopolitical energy perspective. Multiscalarity is adopted as a methodological strategy that allows analyzing social actors beyond a single scale of political action. It is complemented with a bibliographical review and interpretation of reports prepared by several international organizations. The conclusions confirm that on a global scale the trend is to achieve decarbonisation through actions by States, society and companies that mitigate climate change. At the South American regional scale, energy transition is more complex, as it seeks to contribute to improve the quality of life of society with a strategy of diversification of electricity matrix - focused on gas resources and hydroelectric energy - but unsolved, historical and geopolitical conflicts, added to social, economic and political issues, make it difficult to achieve a deeper and more sustainable regional energy transformation.
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