Território minero-metalúrgico: um estudo de caso do município de Barcarena, no estado do Pará

Abstract

The compulsory object of analysis of this study is essential in the debate, at its core, the mining activity and its major influence and interference in the Amazon territorial dynamics. To this end, the mining-metallurgical dynamics in the industrial complex of Barcarena-Pa is approached, in the incisive investigation of the socio-territorial impacts derived from the mineral transformation activities in the municipality. The objective is to correlate the perspective of development ordered by large mining enterprises and their relative influence, above all, on regional, national and international economic dynamics. However, it is essential to diagnose the socio-territorial contradictions and inequalities arising from the mineral economic vector. In this aspect, an analysis is carried out, with regard to the mineral economic vector in Barcarena and its instructive impacts that are correlated in the economic, political and social spheres. Municipal revenue data; Goods and Services Circulation Tax (ICMS), Industrialized Products Tax (IPI) and Municipal Participation Fund (FPM), which consist of means of investigation to measure the collections resulting directly and indirectly from the bauxite industrial complex aluminaaluminum and, it is essential to study an Index to mention a possible quality of life of the local and adjacent population. The Index chosen was the FIRJAN Index of Municipal Development of Barcarena, in order to ascertain the quality of life from the variables of Education, Health and Economy, following, of course, the perspective of the index methodology, which aims to be quanti-qualitative, that is, an effective index for measuring the applicability of resources derived from the mining-metallurgical dynamics, with regard to an effective spatial and equitable destruction, aiming at the quality of life of the local population, that is, to consider the contradiction between economic underdevelopment and development of the place and for the aspirations of the place, based, essentially, on the brand relations by power, configuring itself in a miningmetallurgical territory.