O atual modelo energético e a gestão ambiental no Brasil: uma análise a partir do caso da UHE-Estreito e os impactos socioespaciais em Carolina-MA

Abstract

This dissertation analyzed the socio-spatial reality that was configured after the construction of the Estreito Hydroelectric Power Plant in the municipality of Carolina in Maranhão, taking into consideration the conception of simple individuals who experience the areas which were hit by the lake filling and addressing the energy model and environmental policy in Brazil. For this, we use the theoretical-methodological perspectives and Marxist ideological, thinking the HPP in the context in which it insert, the conjunctures, the dynamics and contradictions of existing capital and his place in the world of uneven and combined development. The power plant was built to meet the demands of international capital under the face of the Brazilian Electricity Sector and Dam Industry, which resulted in restrictions on other uses of the hydrographic basin, causing socio-spatial conflicts and irreversible environmental damage, interfering definitely in the lives of people, whose reference and experience was based on the presence of the Tocantins River.