Desenvolvimento para quem? As contradições socioambientais na Baixada Fluminense e a geração de conflitos

Abstract

The concentration of the Baixada Fluminense, articulated to partnerships between the public and private sectors, tax benefits and fragility social environmental provided conflicting actions between local residentes and polluting activities. Such a problem brought about the need to dialogue on enveronmental questions related to social and economie conditions. For contextualize such actions, it was realized the study of the Baixada Fluminense from the Reading of five municipalites: Nova Iguaçu, Itaguaí, Japeri, Queimados e Seropédica. The data about the municipalities demonstrate contradictions between industrial activities and their economic collection; the low social indexes and the formation of environmental conflicts through complaints to the Public Prosecutor’s Office. In this way, the research used the construction of geographic database and mapping for analysis of social determinants of the distribution of industrial activities and from localities with the presence of conflicts. These appropriations of space verified cases of environmental injustices in the Baixada Fluminense. It was observed that the complaints to the Public Prosecutor’s Office focus on areas tha presente higher income and schooling, as is the case of Nova Iguaçu, which presents the largest number of complaints in relation to the other municipalities.