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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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Influência da atividade garimpeira na dinâmica urbana das cidades amazônicas: o caso de Itaituba/PA
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2013-11-29) SCHUBER, Eliana Souza Machado; ROCHA, Gilberto de Miranda; MORAES, Sérgio Cardoso de; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4568311568729454
This research aims to analyze the influence of mining activity on the formation of urban space of the city of Itaituba/PA, which has a strategic location on the wealthy Tapajós Gold Province. It is considered that the mining activity in this region is specific and structured differently than traditional extraction (latex) from installation manual mines to the insertion of large machines, which currently occurs in the mines. Part of the hypothesis is that the oscillations of this activity intertwined with government interventionist actions dictated the pace of urban dynamics Itaituba. It begins with a comprehensive analysis of the process of urbanization of the Amazon, involving the exploitation of natural resources, particularly minerals and exploitation of gold. Then we develop a periodization of gold mining in the Tapajos Gold Province, from the 60s, establishing the main periods and sub-periods that influenced in some way in the urban dynamics of the city. Then we developed an overview of spatial and urban consequent repercussions mining activity in Itaituba. The research also considered the urban processes that are focusing on the city from the perspective of implementation of large energy and logistics (port) projects in the region.