Descaso planejado, sofrimento social: estudo sobre as unidades de conservação como compensações do Projeto Hidroagrícola de Jequitaí-MG

Abstract

This research aims to study the creation of protected areas negotiated as compensation in the licensing process of the Jequitaí Hidroagricola Project, as well as the social effects resulting from this process. In this sense, the problem is to ask how conservation units are an instrument for negotiation and feasibility of the Jequitaí Dam project. It also intends to analyze the environmental licensing process, focusing on its compensatory environmental conditions, as a way of understanding the actions that guide environmental agencies in this process, whose criticism is based on the economic logic and the paradigm of environmental adequacy. Therefore, we opted for the method of reviewing the primary sources of environmental licensing, administrative procedures and files of federal agencies for data collection. Examination of the data points out that the compensatory measures for the creation of protected areas translate what Scott (2012) calls planned neglect, since the compensatory ideal overlaps and makes impossible different forms of violence by which the subjects affected by the Jequitaí Hydro-agricultural Project. Through the analysis of the minutes of the public hearings that took place in this process, social suffering can be observed in its various dimensions, especially based on sensitivities.