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Agricultura familiar e o desenvolvimento local no Município de Santarém Novo (PA)
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2024-09-23) MONTEIRO, Sandy Lorena Costa; MATHIS, Armin; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8365078023155571; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7831-9391
Considering the complexity and challenges faced by smaller municipalities in the Amazon regarding sustainable development, this research focused on exploring the relationship between sustainable local development and family farming in the municipality of Santarém Novo, located in the Northeast region of Pará, the third smallest state, with 6,116 inhabitants. The purpose of this research was to understand the development concepts of key decision-makers in the municipality, including public officials and representatives of social organizations of local farmers, as well as to assess farmers' perceptions of government actions, especially those impacting the future of family farming. This proposal aimed to comprehend how these diverse perspectives influence actions and policies for local development planning, with an emphasis on family farming. To achieve these objectives, a transdisciplinary approach was adopted, employing a concurrent mixed methods methodology that combines quantitative and qualitative methods for a comprehensive evaluation of these interpretations. The quantitative strategy aimed to identify patterns and general trends in variables related to farmers' assessments, while the qualitative strategy explored the development cosmovisions of public officials and association representatives, based mainly on Ignacy Sachs' Theory of Dimensions of Sustainable Development, also supported by the development concepts of other authors such as David Korten and Amartya Sen. Data collection involved semi-structured interviews with managers and association presidents, and the application of forms to farmers. Quantitative data analysis used descriptive statistical methods, while qualitative data analysis was performed using Bardin's (2016) Content Analysis technique. As a result, the research presented, in addition to the current panorama of municipal development, a diversity of challenges faced by family farmers, including productive dynamics, labor and organizational relations, technical assistance, access to public policies, credit, markets, and social participation. It was also possible to list the main demands and needs of farmers for improving conditions in the sector. Farmers' assessments of the municipal government's actions on these issues were predominantly negative. Furthermore, the research evidenced a plurality of understandings about the aspects that compose development in the interviewees' view. Despite the distinct priorities and strategies addressed by different groups and individuals, the results generally highlighted a greater emphasis on the social dimension of sustainable development, encompassing elements such as health, education, and income, as well as the need to expand opportunities and capacities of individuals and access to non-productive activities such as leisure. These elements were widely recognized as fundamental to ensuring a solid foundation for individual and collective progress and well-being. There is also a shared perception of the importance of economic, territorial, and political aspects (national). The cultural dimension was also alluded to with considerable frequency. However, some areas, despite being considered important, were less emphasized by them, such as the ecological, environmental, and political (international) dimensions. In contrast, there was also an emphasis on considering more subjective aspects of human development, related to ethical, moral, religious, psychological values, and the strengthening of social relations, which refer to solidarity, respect, fraternity, and community sense.
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Análise da implementação dos planos de recuperação de áreas degradadas pela mineração em Lourenço (AP)
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2005-08-09) SILVA, Eva de Fátima Grêlo da; MATHIS, Armin; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8365078023155571
This work aims at verifying the existence of Degraded Area Recuperation Plans (DARP’s) made by Mineração Novo Astro – MNA (Novo Astro mining company), in the district of Lourenço, Municipality of Calçoene, State of Amapá, Brazil, based on the knowledge of recuperation measures created and decided within a framework, and to identify who were the actors that influenced this decision making process. Interviews were conducted with members of the local population, and representatives of the following organizations: MNA, Ampla Engenharia (engineering company hired to recuperate the degraded environment), the Lourenço Mining Cooperative (COOGAL), the Amapá State Special Agency for the Environment (SEMA), the National Department of Mineral Production (DNPM), the Federal Public Attorney’s Office, State Government, and Calçoene City Hall. These actors had a decisive influence on the local results seen today. The research included studies on existent recuperation measures, historical facts occurred in Lourenço, and the social and economic context in order to understand the successful measures chosen for that place. From such data, an analysis of the DARP efficiency was conducted, and alternatives and future guidelines were suggested, based on the social and environmental features of Lourenço. The first DARP was concluded in 1995 with pour results, as the place where it was carried out was again explored by miners and remained in a degraded condition. In 2002, MNA was held in charge of the new recuperation, due to its previous failure in complying with legal requirements. The second DARP, which was partially implemented in 2003, has not been very effective, since more than 70% of the species used in some areas have perished. The negative result of both DARP’s may result from the lack of a deeper knowledge on the part of the mining companies and environmental recuperation companies, about the local environmental and socioeconomic framework. An alternative would be to try to gather local people participation on the projects and policies created for the area, in order to come up with adequate solutions for the local population characteristics and desires.
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O Arranjo produtivo local da opala no município de Pedro II - PI como instrumento de desenvolvimento sustentável a partir da mineração
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2023-03-28) SOUSA JÚNIOR, Dilmo Vieira de; MATHIS, Armin; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8365078023155571; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7831-9391
Sustainable development is development capable of meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability to meet the needs of future generations. It is progress that does not deplete resources for the future, seeking to maintain a balance between social, environmental and economic aspects. Local Productive Arrangements (APLs) are a set of economic, political and social agents located in the same territory, developing related economic activities and that present expressive links of production, interaction, cooperation and learning. Mining is considered by many to be one of the basic sectors of the economy, both for its decisive contribution to the well-being and improvement of the quality of life of present and future generations, and for the contribution it makes to the development of a just and balanced society. to the extent that it requires concrete actions aimed at sustainability from its members. The cooperative network project of the opal productive arrangement in the Pedro II-PI region, aims to increase productivity from mining and consolidate the opal productive chain through a comprehensive and cooperative approach. The general objective of this study is to analyze the factors that hinder the operation of the opal APL as an instrument of sustainable development in Pedro II - PI. The methodology to be used in this research will be of an interpretative qualitative nature and will be based on the methodology of case studies involving the triangulation of data obtained through observation, documentary research and field research that will be interpreted through content analysis.
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Assentamentos rurais e reservas extrativistas: acesso e barreiras ao sistema de saúde no nordeste paraense
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2024-06-03) OLIVEIRA, Antonio Idalmir Rodrigues de; MATHIS, Armin; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8365078023155571; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7831-9391
The study aims to evaluate the phenomena that affect the access to health services in population groups living in Rural Settlements and Extractive Reserves, in the Northeast Paraense, with the perspective of verifying the existence of social exclusion configured by barriers of access to public health services. In the Brazilian Amazon region, the difficulties in providing care in cities in the region are noticeable because of the structural and political challenges for the implementation of public health policies that would require more appropriate planning for the region. With this, we have several implications for the organization of the local health system. Given this scenario, we will research the sites established in this study, which were delimited: the Cupiúba Federal Settlement in Castanhal; the Taperuçu Federal Settlement in São Domingos do Capim; the 5 de Outubro Informal Rural Settlement in Castanhal; the Vera Cruz Informal Settlement in Curuçá; the São João da Ponta Extractive Reserve; and the Mãe Grande Extractive Reserve in Curuçá. In addition to verifying the availability of professionals, supplies, equipment, and technologies available, thus representing a condition of barriers to access or not to basic health care services. Meanwhile, it is urgent to contextualize the lack of access to health services as a form of being excluded from basic rights, which the population expects to be available when they need them. We will also observe, in this study, the difficulty of access of the population to medical professionals during all the working hours of the Basic Health Units, a fact that has been evidenced in studies, more markedly in the North and Northeast regions of Brazil. In order to identify and evaluate the existence of barriers to access to public health services, through its main programs, in Rural Settlements and Extractive Reserves in the Microregion of Guamá in Northeastern Paraense, to verify the existence and level of social exclusion from the evidence of barriers to access to public health services by citizens residing in these territories; to characterize the barriers to access to existing health services in each location, observing the differences in the promotion of public health services in the territories delimited in the project; to evaluate the reality of local health structures, in the generation of public health services, by verifying the existence and levels of imposition of barriers to access to these services; to obtain the health indicators at the level of basic health care coverage in the Settlements and Extractive Reserves inserted in the research. Based on these objectives, we will investigate to what extent public health services of primary care in Rural Settlements and Extractive Reserves are not inclusive and how the barriers of access to health services are constituted for the residents of these areas included in the research project.
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Conflitos entre sobrevivência familiar e conservação ambiental em Reservas Extrativistas da Amazônia
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2018-01-26) FREITAS, Josimar da Silva; FARIAS FILHO, Milton Cordeiro; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0624491756992741; MATHIS, Armin; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8365078023155571
Public policies for RESEXs (over the last three decades) continue to not ignore the social needs and environmental goals. Economic Sociology explains the actions of actors within markets, in which individual behavior influences the collective, whether in the insertion of livestock rearing or in the removal of wood, productive diversity and so on. The literature reveals an inefficiency of RESEXs as a development model that guarantees environmental conservation and social development. The research supports the thesis that environmental priority, low investments and devaluation of residents promote high socioeconomic demands, leading to environmental instability and unsustainability of RESEXs in the Amazon. For this, a study was conducted on the association between variables: policy inefficiency, management, control and allocation of financial resources in three RESEXs located in the Brazilian Amazon. The Prism Model was used to identify, select and include the published works on the subject in national and international databases, and, subsequenthy, a survey (semi-open questionnaire) with residents from three Amazon RESEXs located in the State of Acre, Amapá and Rondônia. We interviewed 232 residents and 12 environmental analysts from ICMBio. The results revealed that RESEXs are unsustainable because they were created with an emphasis on biological conservation and not to develop their residents in a sustainable way. The management model of state institutions is inefficient and there are no trusts that ensure biological stability. The thesis here is that local populations exploit the forest to meet biological, economic and social needs and, therefore, do not consider environmental conservation as a priority, thus leadmy to the unsustainability of RESEXs at Amazon.
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Contribuições do Campus Universitário - UFPA e do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia - IFPA para o desenvolvimento local no município de Bragança (PA) a partir do modelo da Hélice Tríplice
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2024-10-23) SOARES, Patrícia da Trindade; MATHIS, Armin; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8365078023155571; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7831-9391
The dissertation analyzed the contributions of the University Campus - UFPA and the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology - IFPA to the promotion of local development in the municipality of Bragança (PA) from the Triple Helix model. The study, aimed at analyzing the economic and social dimensions, was structured on quantitative data that show the performance of these HEIs in the generation of knowledge, innovative ideas and patent filing. The investigation focused on official data from government agencies for the period, predominantly, from 2014 to 2024. Additionally, information was collected about the intellectual production generated by research professors from UFPA and IFPA in the city, as well as about the partnerships made by them with organizations representing other propellers. Also added to the scope of this work, searches in the field of academic training of individuals who are part of the spheres of university, industry and municipal public governance. The research concluded that the educational institutions investigated are still in an incipient phase in the process of IFES – INDUSTRY – GOVERNMENT interaction. However, the participation of the educational units has increased over the last few years in articulations and actions aimed at strengthening entrepreneurship, the surrounding productive sectors and social issues in the community.
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Da ação social a relação social: estudo das práticas de comunicação no Complexo Industrial de Barcarena
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2004-10-22) PRESSLER, Neusa Gonzaga de Santana; MATHIS, Armin; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8365078023155571
This research paper investigates the communication practices adopted by the Companies Albras-Alunorte located in Barcarena - Pa. With this proposal, it investigates how the practice of institutional communications strategies can improve and generate values in the relations between those companies and their strategic publics, collaborating to maintain their identity and institutional image in Amazonia as well as in the International Market. This study intends to answer one of the many social communications contradictions in those companies, after the implement of those so called Big projects. The changes that took place in the area where those big mining companies are, were noticeable in may ways, like: initiating new relationship ways between the existing social actors and the new ones that arrived accordingly to the companies administration. Therefore, the arrivel of those big projects modifies the way of life, the new relationship with land and environment, and also of changes the interpersonal relationships in institutional and social communications. So, it is desirable to describe the path followed by these companies throw the practices of the institutional communication. In this way, the research will describe those communicational practices that changed the social actions to the actual social relations, and also, how these companies built and maintained this identities and institutional images.
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A Demanda hoteleira do turismo em Imperatriz, Maranhão
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2006-12-14) IAGHI, Angela Cristina de França; MATHIS, Armin; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8365078023155571
This monography consists on detecting the profile of hotelling demand in the city of Imperatriz, Maranhão, and the main motivations that take the guest until there, as well as pointing the characteristics of its trip, such as: expenses, time of permanence and the regularity of visits, beyond disclosing economic and social profiles. The research also traces the characteristics of hotelling net, analyzes the category of the hotels in town, according to classification of Embratur, the Brazilian institute of tourism promotion, analyzes the jobs generated, the services offered by the hotels, as well as the flow of this demand according to the months of the year. All these factors have a huge relevance in the elaboration of strategical planning for the tourism in Imperatriz, as well as for touristic public policies in the region. This is very important information, since the city does not have any kind of databasis on the profile of the tourism in the region. The researched universe was constituted by 100% of the hotelling enterprises of Imperatriz, which results in 24 establishments.
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Diálogo entre Cortes: um estudo sobre a aplicabilidade da Convenção Americana sobre Direitos Humanos em litígios minerários do Tribunal de Justiça do Pará
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2024-11-13) ALVES, Sandro Júnior do Carmo; MATHIS, Armin; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8365078023155571; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7831-9391
The general objective of this Master's Dissertation is to describe, based on jurimetric data and the analysis of judgments, how the rights protected by the American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR) and its related jurisprudence can serve as pro homine instruments in the dialogue between the Tribunal de Justiça do Pará (TJ-PA) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) in cases involving the mining industry in the state of Pará. A descriptive research with an inductive method was used to analyze the judgments. The bibliographic review revealed that environmental conflicts related to mining are associated with the intrinsic dimensions of this model of exploration, which causes negative impacts both on the environment and on the quality of life of local communities. For the purposes of analysis of the Dissertation, these conflicts were categorized into 7 types. As a theoretical framework, the research adopted the theory of “dialogue between Courts”, which explores communication between different jurisdictions for a broad defense of human rights. Given that Brazil is a signatory to the ACHR and is under the jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the State must respect the rights enshrined in this Convention, in its related case law, and in other documents, such as Advisory Opinion No. 23 of 2017, which establishes the relationship between the environment and human rights. The analysis of the 187 rulings of the TJ-PA revealed that 129 refer to agrarian conflicts, followed by those related to the progressive development of society. The company Vale S.A. is the largest litigant, present in 120 rulings. Regarding the grounds used, procedural law rules stood out, cited 211 times, followed by agrarian law rules, mentioned 82 times. The most recurrent case law was of a civil procedural nature, followed by agrarian law, while the doctrinal references were also predominantly procedural, followed by civil law. It was observed that the ACHR could be applied in all rulings. It was also found that arguments related to economic rights and property rights of mining companies still prevail over the rights to quality of life of local communities. Even when decisions are favorable to residents, these rights are not interpreted comprehensively, as has already been done by the case law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Thus, it is clear that there is a need for dialogue between the TJPA and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights so that court decisions related to mining and human rights do not exacerbate social inequalities.
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Entre o ouro e a biodiversidade: garimpos e unidades de conservação na região de Itaituba, Pará, Brasil
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2014) BAIA JÚNIOR, Pedro Chaves; THEIJE, Marjo de; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3764097351224416; MATHIS, Armin; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8365078023155571
Examines the policies and practices of small-scale gold mining (SSGM) and protected areas (PA) performed in the region of Itaituba (Pará), and understand the impacts of the Brazilian nature conservation policy on practices developed in the small mining Amazon context. Historical and comparative methods were utilized. Documentary and bibliographical searches, semi-structured interviews with social actors involved in the issues, and data collection on websites of public agencies were conducted. The results show that the creation of a federally set of PA in the region of Itaituba, in 2006, was a response to international public opinion on the high rates of deforestation in the Amazon verified at the beginning of the century, but that resulted in direct conflict with institutions and local social actors linked to SSGM, which considered this action authoritative and impediment to regional economic development action. Despite PA have been superimposed over the 80% of areas of interest and/or gold exploration in the region of Itaituba, this conservation policy has not prevented the continuity of SSGM in the region. However, it was found that such police put into play a series of elements that increased the difficulties to regulate their activity and prospector are forcing it to remain or be directed to the illegality. The main barriers identified for the planning of mining activity in the region of Itaituba were: the physical distances between the mines and the environmental agencies, the delay in issuing environmental permits (small-scale/alluvial mining licence, for exemple), difficulties in meeting the legal requirements, and uncertainties about mining within the PA, especially National Forests. Moreover, it was found that the PA did not leave the paper, since they lack staff, infrastructure and financial resources to the minimum compliance for surveillance, education and regulation, for example, the mining activity that occurs inside. Thus, although the federal government has created the PA as an alternative to a process of sustainable development for the region, in practice these protected areas are only creating legal barriers to the continuation of an important regional productive activities without providing alternative livelihoods to users of this resource.
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O Estado federativo fiscal e o comportamento do sistema de transferências intergovernamentais na receita pública dos municípios do Estado do Pará: uma análise sob as perspectivas da equalização fiscal e do desenvolvimento
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2014) PAMPLONA, Karla Marques; MATHIS, Armin; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8365078023155571
The paper presents, first, a theoretical investigation on the structure of Fiscal Federalism Brazilian state, outlining the concept, fundamentals and their peculiarities; therefore, analyzes the behavior of the Brazilian federal fiscal pact after the advent of the Federal Constitution of 1988 and the political-administrative and financial decentralization, demonstrating the considerable participation of intergovernmental transfers in government revenue available from subnational entities, particularly since 2000, standing out the high participation in the Brazilian municipal revenue. The second chapter elucidates the composition, methods, features and functions of the legal system of intergovernmental transfers in the current Brazilian federative state, emphasizing the need to link with the fiscal equalization and development. Finally, the last chapter discusses the behavior of intergovernmental transfers in government revenue from Parámunicipalities in the period 1989 a 2012, compared to the own collection, tax collection and revenue available, as well as analyzes their impact by mesoregions compared with PIB and IDH-M, in order to evaluate locally the performance of fiscal equalization and development.
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A Gestão de resíduos sólidos urbanos no Município de Belém: uma análise do gerenciamento e da possibilidade de geração de renda através da reciclagem de resíduos sólidos (1997/2010)
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2010-11-12) FREIRE, Tatylene do Socorro Campos; MATHIS, Armin; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8365078023155571
This thesis addresses the management of household solid waste in Bethlehem, its treatment and the possibility of generating income through recycling of solid waste. In order to understand the solid waste management and recycling market in the city Bethlehem this thesis examined the current structure of waste management and collection work done by selective Belém Prefecture (PMB). Will also be objects of study in this work the legislation that deals with specific issues of solid waste, established with the Solid Waste Policy, through the National Environment Council (CONAMA) in which we highlight the current National Policy on Solid Waste Management. It started from the assumption that in Bethlehem the difference between waste generated and waste introduced into the recycling process is very large, so that the productivity of recycling processes is insufficient. The survey was conducted using data from the State Department of Environment (SEMA), the Municipal Sanitation (SESAN), the Municipal Coordination and Project Management (SEGEP) and the Department of Municipal Solid Waste (DRES) as well as through the use of questionnaires and interviews with officials involved in the recycling chain. From the analysis conducted for the dissertation found that waste management in the city is still deficient, the survey shows that only two districts served by the Bethlehem home selective collection, the landfill that the city is working with its ability Support exhausted and that way the city government is very far from the standards to fit the new National Policy on Solid Waste Management (PNRS).
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A Gestão sistêmica do fracasso escolar no ensino médio da rede pública no Estado do Pará
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2018-06-19) MARTINS, Roberto Araújo; MATHIS, Armin; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8365078023155571
The thesis aimed at describing the persistent failure of public education in high school in Pará and its possible causes. The research problem is based on the following question: How do the political and educational systems behave in the face of persistent school failure in high school in the state of Pará? The research followed some guiding questions: a) How do the organizations of the political system observe and organize to face the school failure in high school in Pará? b) How does the educational system absorb the communications of the political system in actions to combat school failure that require intersystemic interaction? c) What factors influence the persistence of school failure in the public high school system? The starting point was a paradigmatic epistemological approach in the sociological and educational field based on the theory of self-referential systems of the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann, who took bibliographic data, systematic observation in the field and Web Survey research. In the data organization and analysis, qualitative and quantitative techniques were used. It was contacted that the persistence of school failure in high school gains a circular dimension due to the impossibility of communication between organizations that act in the political and educational systems aiming at educational success. The proposed thesis is confirmed in the sense that the phenomenon of school failure in Pará becomes systemic to the extent that the politics of fighting the phenomenon through the political and educational systems reinforce it instead of fighting it. The mistaken communications of the political-administrative system find resistance in the educational system, which shifts its unity from the intention to educate to the defense of the profession, resulting in the circularity and reproduction of the phenomenon in the state.
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Governo, interesse público e práticas burocráticas: tessituras políticas no processo decisório do licenciamento ambiental do Projeto Volta Grande no Xingu - Pará
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2021-04-26) SANTOS, Selma Solange Monteiro; MATHIS, Armin; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8365078023155571; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7831-9391
The environmental licensing is the political instrument founded under the juridic positivity that applies the environmental control function of economic activities. This process, which has been brought up by the knowledge of the techno sciences stablishes a rule with principles that support the idea that all the damage, impact and negative effects can be rationalized by tools and technical methods (evaluation of environmental impacts, impact mitigation, compensation, constraints and the end of conflicts through negotiation). These methods and tools would produce technical resolutions to the territorial conflicts. This thesis questions the neutral, technical and operational natures of the rational ways of licensing intervention. Therefore, an analysis has been made about the decision-making process of a big project of gold mining and its macro and micro political relations. The bureaucracy behind the project will be investigated considering two main theoretical aspects: the concept of governmentality supported by studies originated in Foucault (2008a, 2008b) and the anthropology of bureaucracy according to the explanatory table “Studying up” (NADER, 1972). The historic processes of governmentalization of the State grounded on the domain of power and knowledge of the political economy allow us to analyze that the public interest mobilizes the procedure aligned with the economic order, the practice of the State financial activities and the business strategies. This way, the environmental control interferes in the governmental planning and its tactics, where the environmental licensing is the main instrument to attract big mining projects. The licensing is planned within the public policies for regional development. The political interests get into the internal practices of the licensing organizations and they can get attached to the subjective interests of the employees depending on the contingency. The result of the macro and micro political relations will produce a composite reality where the environmental licensing is a complex and uncertain political process that is driven by the environmental institution. It represents the different interests of the government which orientations are materialized by arguments that derived from the technical knowledge of the discretionary practices. These practices are strategically selected in order to bring harmony between the sides in conflict as well as changing criteria, documents and appointments for the following stages of the whole process.
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Mineração e desenvolvimento local: benefícios e desafios aos municípios amapaenses
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2010-11-11) OLIVEIRA, Marcelo José de; MATHIS, Armin; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8365078023155571
For forty years (1957-1997) the state of Amapá experienced a mining cycle that awarded good social indicators and the implementation of an important logistic infrastructure, resulting mainly from the appreciation of manganese deposits in the Serra do Navio region. However, at the end of the last century, the problems arising from the closure of mining projects, somehow, frustrated the expectations of regional development. After a period of declining mining activity between 1998 and 2004, from 2005 new projects were started, setting a new mining cycle in Amapá. In the lack of productive activities in the region, the mining sector once again presents as an economic opportunity to be used to improve the local and regional development. Today, however, the challenges are even greater, permeates not only by the overcoming of social and environmental liabilities left by the previous cycle, but also by the practice of such a more responsible mining with the community and the local environment, towards sustainability. With this approach that this research was carried out, which aimed at investigating the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of the recent mining projects in the city of Pedra Branca do Amapari and older extractive industries installed in the cities of Vitória do Jari and Mazagão. It was also proposed to examine the contributions and problems of small-scale mining (artisanal mining and extraction of aggregates) in the cities of Porto Grande and Calçoene. For that, were collected and analyzed economic, social and environmental indicators of mining cities in the last decade. In addition, considering the importance of the quality and action of the institutions to take advantage and maximize the benefits of mining toward development, were also investigated institutional indicators of the cities, as well as analysis of the government state performance about the mineral sector. The indicators found were partially favorable for the city that hosts the new mining projects - Pedra Branca do Amapari. The city of Vitória do Jari had, as the only benefit of mining, the increase of public finances, what not necessarily has become in developing or improving local living conditions. The other mining cities seem to be accumulating more losses (mainly environmental) than benefiting from the mining, which little contributes to local development. This scene would be possibly associated with the institutional weakness in municipal and state levels, constituting the main challenge to achieve sustainability in the mining sector of Amapá.
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Mineração em pequena escala (MPE) e o planejamento urbano: um olhar sobre a Região Metropolitana de Belém (PA)
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2024-01-23) ROCHA, Danusa di Paula Nascimento da; MATHIS, Armin; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8365078023155571; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7831-9391
This research aims to analyze the integration of Small-Scale Mining into an active and sustainable system of exploration of mineral resources for Territorial Planning, especially the political and socio-environmental dynamics in the Metropolitan Region of Belém. The direction of the research was based on the method qualitative, exploring concepts and pointing out the complex reality of the object of study, and the quantitative method based on the collection of data structured in graphs and maps, which contributed to presenting considerations about the current scenario of appropriation of urban territory, resources and of their forms of spatial materialization. The secondary data, collected for the research regarding mineral substances (sand, clay, crushed stone and gravel), comes from the National Mining Agency and dates back to the last 20 years (2002 to 2022). The research developed a theoretical framework on Territorial Planning on a sustainable basis for Small-Scale Mining activities on the international, national, regional and Belém Metropolitan Region scales, also taking as a reference the National Plan of Mineral Aggregates for Construction Civil and intervention action by public authorities. Territorial Planning and sustainable planning are considered important tools in the productive activities of Small-Scale Mining and in public authorities' management plans for urban space, considering that they must involve, among their actions, a technical process that seeks to create conditions to meet to the objectives of development that considers social and environmental functions and guarantees well-being for society, and the urgency of a metropolitan master plan that develops in a sustainable and integrated manner between the activities of Small-Scale Mining and the areas impacted. As a result, it was observed that there is no political planning directed towards mineral activity, only towards the transport network and basic sanitation, as well as, there is no integrated urban planning between Small Scale Mining activities and the urban expansion of Metropolitan Region of Belém. The situational diagnosis carried out by this research presents a cartographic production, which culminated in an important analysis of the mineral sector, spatializing the areas of mineral exploration, the main substances explored, the location and quantity of production and the number of companies at state and regional scales.
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Movimentos sociais e reivindicações populares em torno das empresas de transformação mineral em Barcarena: um estudo da atuação das associações de moradores e trabalhadores rurais
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2004-10-25) PALHETA, Rosiane Pinheiro; MATHIS, Armin; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8365078023155571
The research talks about the role of the social movements that occurred in the surroundings of the Barcarena industrial complex, after the installation of the companies; Albras, Alunorte and Para Pigmentos, who created the association of residents and rural workers. The objective is to identify the principal emerging and existent movements, analyzing them based on the new social movement theory. Based on a exploratory research, it looks to identify the routs through where are being guided the social movements, which gave origin to the representative institutes in the municipality. The field research was done between 2003 and 2004 together with 15 existing associations from Barcarena which involve 18 rural and urban communities, where questionnaires where implied in order to verify how these communities make their demands and their relationship with the local authorities. Interviews where established with technicians from the companies, the town hall, and with elder citizens. Amongst the analyzed results of data, it can be said that there is a difference between the aspirations of the urban and rural social movements, but principal demands where towards an improvement in the infrastructure, health, education, and agricultural development. An identification of the main social movements in Barcarena was an expected result though out the research, since it cant be affirmed that there exists a social movement in Barcarena that opposes the companies in way as to protest, but the movement does actively exist molding new social movements. It can be concluded that in the daily confrontation between companies and communities, what prevails is the category of popular movement, where these collective demands are directed towards the improvement of life conditions and daily aspects, together with de defense of their own production and reproduction of life.
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Movimentos sociais em área de mineração na Amazônia brasileira: ressonâncias e dissensos na proposição de um modelo de desenvolvimento alternativo
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2016-06-20) DIAS, Priscila Tamara Menezes; MATHIS, Armin; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8365078023155571
This research is about the original process of communicative production, social movements in the mining area, the defense of an expanded agenda: to promote an alternative development model. We used the method, the analysis of the production direction, systemic theory Luhmann, assuming that the analysis is effective along with the concepts produced by this theory. Thus, systems theory has given a central theoretical significance to communication, it is necessary to make the proper treatment of it is that you say when something is said, and here is the importance of the concept of meaning, which is the medium that allows selective breeding of all social and psychic forms. When social movements in the mining area, call into question the consensus assumption of mineral extractive industry and advocates governments of regional development policies sidewalks in mining activities, they, as a response, tend to promote resonance of divergent expectations if propose thematizing a sense of communication, to show the inconsistencies and precariousness through the construction of semantic such as injustice, inequality, exploitation, among others. It is from this perspective that analyzes the concrete actions of social movements in the mining area, from the creation of its thematic core, which gives unity to the movement and produces senses, which serve to confirm, disseminate and directions established by communication dominant. By stating that the move aims to search for a "development", indicates that the deconstruction of the order or the dominant communication is done by a more abstract alternative semantics that goes beyond just being a movement against mining, it must be a requirement to be propositional and this leads to both the expansion of which are added to the movement, in increasing the diffusion capacity of information, which also extends the address of the protest. The possibility of the spread of a more abstract semantics for ease of network membership is a constant for the social movement that always requires more adherent to impress his opponents and to divergent expectations against what you want to protest. However, the expansion produces a problem of maintaining the cohesion of the movement, because as it expands the theme and the problem, it is unlikely that produced communication is understood, making it difficult to know what motivates and what leads to change the address and the production of results. Therefore, it is difficult to show successes and results to keep the followers for a long time.
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Organização comunitária e desenvolvimento territorial: o contexto ribeirinho em uma ilha da Amazônia
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2006-12-01) RODRIGUES, Eliana Teles; MATHIS, Armin; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8365078023155571
This is a case study about riverine communities in the Amazon estuary. It analyzes the social and spatial dynamics, as well as the community organization of the resident population in Combu Island. The spatial and territorial organization of the communities is investigated through the production and reproduction of the material and economic life, in the search of experiences which can reference other rural communities vis-à-vis the debate on regional development. Fifty-four family units were studied in four communities: Igarapé Combu, Beira do Rio, Piriquitaquara, and Furo do Benedito. For being a nature study to interdisciplinary it adopts the socioeconomic, politcs and cultural perspective having as focus the question a) How the communities of Combu island have adapted to exogenous interferences and its survival strategies; b) Which differentiation, strategy between the groups and its forms of organization and articulation; c) What generates greater community involvement. Disarticulation is an unfavorable factor in a community organization, implying fewer possibilities for communities to be a part of the society as active citizens in the development process, and in directing their own destinies. Maintaining the environment and the welfare of the population implies information and formal knowledge allied to local specific practices; the higher the degree of knowledge and local permanence, the higher is the identification, valorization, and cooperation among the riverine populations. The absence of such aspects indicates a low degree of development, or isolated practices where such aspects are hardly perceived. Alone, communities are not able to come up with dynamics to promote their welfare, but forest management developed by the riverine populations has served as a base for economic growth. Such practices may enhance açaí production the main local income source increasing families purchase power. This reinforces the argument for partnerships between institutions and communities, in order to promote environmental and social sustainability.
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O Papel das cooperativas de reciclagem na implementação da Política Nacional de Resíduos Sólidos: estudo de caso em duas cooperativas do município de Belém (PA)
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2023-10-31) SOUZA, Souza, Keila Regiane Barreto de; MATHIS, Armin; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8365078023155571; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7831-9391
In recent times, one of the greatest challenges facing municipal management is finding viable solutions for solid waste management and, from this perspective, cooperatives of recyclable material collectors are included, as proposed by the National Solid Waste Policy (PNRS) - Law no. 12,305, of August 2, 2010. The municipality of Belém (PA) currently has ten associations and/or cooperatives of recyclable material collectors. This context includes the Filhos do Sol Cooperative and the Belém Selective Collectors Work Cooperative (ACCSB), which are the subject of this study. The participation of recycling cooperatives is fundamental to the implementation of PNRS, although they are often neglected by municipal management. It is intended, within the limits of this study, to answer the following question. What are the structural and/or organizational obstacles that prevent or hinder the expansion of recyclable materials cooperatives? In order to answer this question, the main objective of the research is to identify the obstacles that limit the expansion of cooperatives and how to overcome them. The methodology adopted will be exploratory in nature, with a qualitative and quantitative approach. As results of qualitative and quantitative research, it was found that the process of implementing public policies for recyclable collectors constitutes a highly complex, transversal and comprehensive task, with a long path that needs to be systematic, continuous and aligned with strategic planning of municipal public management. It should be noted that the Cataforte and Pró-Catador projects were decisive for the socioeconomic inclusion of recyclable material collectors. It is noted that it was possible to identify projects and actions aimed at waste picker organizations, although the remuneration for the daily services provided to society and the municipality are still far from guaranteeing their sustainability. It is noteworthy that cooperatives that do not have formal registration, that is, are not regularized with the competent bodies, present difficulties when selling recyclables. The quantitative data identified that the percentage of female collectors is (55%), which reflects the national average, which corresponds to (56%). It is noteworthy that cooperatives do not yet have the economic and financial sustainability to be competitive in the recycling market. Finally, the need for an action plan aimed at providing improvements in the work of cooperatives was identified.