Paradoxos da legislação ambiental: uma análise de alguns dos conflitos socioambientais em torno das monoculturas de eucalipto na Comunidade de Cana Brava - Norte de Minas Gerais

Abstract

The general purpose of this investigation is to analyze the effectiveness of the environmental legislation as a political-institutional mechanism, on both its formulation and application, from the environmental license to forest activity and the socioenvironmental conflicts generated by it. From the collected information, the analysis presented in this study finds out inconsistencies in the formulation and implementation of environmental politics, in their mechanisms and in public agents’ performance in public power control. It was noticed that the environmental legislation effectiveness limits itself, because it is a product of the state action itself, which determines, in this way, the continuation of the capitalist accumulation process, in search of development, combining, under consent, incompatible situations, development, in search of economic growth and environment, in search of natural resources stocks and absorption power of ecosystems. However, the increase in the intensity of socioenvironmental conflicts has generated resistance to the dominant capitalist logic, showing evidence of possibly different projects, starred by traditional settlements, organized around family farming, under the articulation of knowledge related to agro ecology. In the resistance process of these settlements the expectation of social development becomes evident, with the possibility of making the right to environment solid to them, organized on the sustainable and environmental use of natural resources, traditions and cultures that resist to the expansion of agro business logic.