Injustiça e conflitos ambientais: Uma abordagem nas comunidades geraizeiras de Formosa do Rio Preto/ BA

Abstract

This dissertation brings an approach to the disputes over territory, the injustices and environmental conflicts that occur between the Geraiza communities of Formosa do Rio Preto/BA and the Cachoeira do Estrondo Business Condominium, which houses a set of plots used by agribusiness. The study turned to the communities located in the rural area of the municipality and which had their territories degraded by the logic of green land grabbing, with the purpose of constituting legal reserve areas of the aforementioned condominium. In addition to bibliographical review, document analysis, field work, participation and observation in events related to the theme (ecumenical act and public hearing), and interviews were used to carry out the research. The nature of environmental injustice is evidenced by the compromised use of the territory and the violence used against the geraizeiros, which leads to an unequal distribution of burdens and benefits among the groups involved. Conflicts are based on a territorial issue, but they also have distributive and spatial characteristics, given the domain over natural resources and the propagation of environmental impacts and their consequences, even leading to the emergence of internal conflicts within the scope of the geraizeiras communities.