A construção da usina hidrelétrica de Belo Monte: conflito socioambiental e impacto sobre as comunidades locais

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Ramos, Andre Marconato [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Belo Monte dam; environmental sociology; social environmental conflict; development; sustainability; usina hidrelétrica de Belo Monte; sociologia ambiental; conflito socioambiental; desenvolvimento; sustentabilidade
• Link de acesso: https://sucupira.capes.gov.br/sucupira/public/consultas/coleta/trabalhoConclusao/viewTrabalhoConclusao.jsf?popup=true&id_trabalho=2774956; https://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/46309

This essay examines the political process of construction of the Belo Monte Dam. It uses concepts from Political Process Theory and other branches of Environmental Sociology to describe the construction as a social environmental conflict. In this sense the research expects to offer new elements to the analysis of the actual disputes among the main stakeholders involved in social environmental conflicts, regarding the most adequate developing model for the Amazon region and for the country. In other to achieve the goals mentioned above some methodological procedures were developed. Some of them should be highlighted: a) creation of a historical background and explanation of the essay?s main topics of discussion; b) case study about the construction of the Belo Monte Dam; c) field research with structured and semi structured interviews with different social actors involved in the social environmental conflict; d) analysis of the conflicts between different social actors. The essay concludes with some analyses of the actual political opportunity structure in the social environmental conflict around the construction of the Belo Monte Dam ? favourable to the government and the private investor. At the end of the text there is also a conclusion concerning the way how the federal government and the entrepreneur are using local development and sustainability discourses to strengthen the interpretative framework in favour of the construction. Finally the research presented a subject that relates to all the others: the role of science and the scientist in social environmental conflicts ? to criticize the actual Brazilian energy policy, but not forgetting to think of alternatives models that are viable in economic and social environmental terms.