TITLE:
Large Mining Projects and Socio-Environmental Impacts: Economic and Socio-Environmental Dynamics in Barcarena (Pará, Brazil)
AUTHORS:
Raimundo da Costa Almeida, Christian Nunes da Silva, João Marcio Palheta da Silva, Aghane de Carvalho Antunes Antunes, Cynthia S. Simmons, Daniel Araújo Sombra Soares
KEYWORDS:
Mining-Metallurgical Activity, Municipal Tax Collection, Socio-Environmental Impacts, Barcarena, Brazilian Amazon
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Service Science and Management,
Vol.16 No.5,
October
20,
2023
ABSTRACT: This paper analyzes the
socio-environmental impacts caused by the “Large Project” of mining in
Barcarena, a municipality in the Brazilian Amazon located in the Metropolitan
Region of Belém, with a previous rural history, abruptly converted into a
mineral processing area. Through documentary analysis of taxes and fees
generated, and local development indices, we show how mining activity does not
generate development for the inhabitants of Barcarena. For the municipality,
only externalities remain. We used secondary, statistical and cartographic data
analysis, although we carried out fieldwork to understand the situation on the
ground.