Banca de DEFESA: ISAAC NEWTON LUCENA FERNANDES DE QUEIROZ

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : ISAAC NEWTON LUCENA FERNANDES DE QUEIROZ
DATA : 09/12/2016
HORA: 13:30
LOCAL: Sala de Reunião, Centro de Biociências, UFRN
TÍTULO:

SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICTS: PERCEPTION IN THE LICENSING PROCESS OF WIND ENERGY EMPLOYMENT IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF SÃO MIGUEL DO GOSTOSO

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Sustainability, democracy, wind energy, environmental impacts, environmental justice.

PÁGINAS: 89
GRANDE ÁREA: Outra
ÁREA: Ciências Ambientais
RESUMO:

From the economic point of view, the exploitation of the wind potential brought to the state of
Rio Grande do Norte large investments of national and foreign capital, becoming a priority
political interest and representing an alternative to the dependence of the hydroelectric regime
that prevails in the country. This energy matrix also has an environmental bias, insofar as its
impacts on the physical environment are comparatively smaller. In addition, it is considered
by international climate agreements as the main sustainable alternative for controlling the
greenhouse effect by reducing the burning of fossil fuels. However, the deployment of wind
towers has generated serious social issues, identified in studies around the world, especially in
what concerns the appropriation of territories, landscape impacts, noise, among others. It is a
question of environmental injustice, where the harmful effects of the activity fall precisely on
the most helpless. In particular, its effects can also be felt in the municipality of São Miguel
do Gostoso, located on the northern coast of the RN. In the community of Morro dos Martins,
where the research was developed, this problem was repeated, even though in 2011 the project
was subject to an environmental licensing procedure provided according to the brazilian law.
The problem then arises in verifying if licensing reaches its objectives with respect to the
social side of sustainability and also if it has a democratic character. For that, a participant
observation was carried out in the place, as well as the process in question was analyzed and
direct data obtained from the Municipality. During the observation, 20 interviews were
conducted with residents who sold their land to the company that built the park. Among the
results, it was observed that the population sold their lands to the company, harassed by the
money and abandoned by the institutions, and now they have no more how to produce, as well
as they made misuse of the product of the sale of their goods. In addition, residents complain
about the environmental agency's inertia in defending its interests, and the regulations do not
grant any decision power to those directly affected by the impacts of the works, which does
not translate into a truly democratic tool. It is concluded that only after the adoption of
methods that contemplate the participation of the population in an effective way, taking into
account the principles of environmental justice, as well as the creation of an association that
represents popular interests and defends them in the face of new arbitrariness.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Interno - 1451225 - DANIEL DURANTE PEREIRA ALVES
Presidente - 1219932 - FRANCISCA DE SOUZA MILLER
Externo à Instituição - MARISTELA OLIVEIRA DE ANDRADE - UFPB