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A GEOGRAFIA POLÍTICA DOS CONFLITOS AMBIENTAIS NO MARANHÃO: TERRITÓRIO, DESENVOLVIMENTO E PODER NO RELATÓRIO DE SUSTENTABILIDADE DA VALE 2009

2011; UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE MARINGÁ; Volume: 3; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.4025/revpercurso.v3i1.13397

2177-3300

José Arnaldo dos Santos Ribeiro, Horácio Antunes Sant'ana Júnior,

Urban Development and Societal Issues

This work, from a critical point of view, identified with the political ecology, aims to contribute to the theme of environmental conflicts, considering the necessity to understand the actions of certain particular acting agents that interfere in the socio-economic and political-environment fields, allowing, in this way, to understand altogether how the various spatializations, the relation between antagonistic /co-existing forces and the resulting conflicts are processed. As the object of this study, were selected the Valley of the Rio Doce Company (CVRD), currently Valley SA, due to its heavy influence, reflected in its territorial, in the state of Maranhao, which has caused many social impacts and environmental injustices because of its political-economic planning that promotes social and environmental (geographical) transformations inadequately, like the displacement of populations and the appropriation of the land, respectively. Within this perspective, it was realized the distribution study of environmental conflicts in Maranhao, through the discourse contained in the document entitled Sustainability Report by Valley 2009, and seeking, when it is possible, to reprove the present affirmations in the document with concrete cases.