Banca de DEFESA: JOSÉ ROBERTO GALDINO DE BARROS FILHO

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : JOSÉ ROBERTO GALDINO DE BARROS FILHO
DATE: 31/05/2022
TIME: 15:00
LOCAL: Webconferência
TITLE:

Analysis of the impacts of the mineral extraction activity of rock salt in

Maceió/AL

KEY WORDS:

Maceio, rock salt, mining, chlorchemical sector, environmental
disaster

PAGES: 130
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Geografia
SUMMARY:

This project proposes the development of a critical theoretical reflection on the rock
salt mineral industry and the impacts of its performance in the city of Maceió, capital
of
the State of Alagoas. This mining subsidizes raw material for the chlorochemical
sector, which is relevant to the local and regional economy, but this activity is
identified
by the Geological Service of Brazil (CPRM) as responsible for the largest
environmental disaster occurring located in urban areas in Latin America, directly
affecting about 50,000 people, damage caused to the city by the rock salt mineral
extraction model. With a view to investigating the issue and giving geographical
science a contribution to the theme, a historical-dialectical study is initially carried
out
on the social and economic formation of the State of Alagoas, emphasizing the
specificities of this process in the city of Maceió. Then, a characterization of the
physical and biological aspects is made, identifying the morphology and geology of
the
explored region, substantiating fundamental elements of the region where rock salt
extraction activities occur in Lagoon Mundaú and in three neighborhoods. Obtaining
such information for scientific basis, a contextualization of the mining around rock
salt
in Alagoas is constructed in the course of this, involving the history of extraction, the
processes and evolution of processing (chlorine/soda/DCE), as well as the history of
the responsible company from the emergence of Salgema S/A and the events that
took
place to the privatization and then the emergence of the gigantic petrochemical
company Braskem S/A. Pointing out the contributions of the chlorochemical
complex
to the economy of Alagoas and its contradictions that emerged. Next, an
understanding
of the environmental disaster in occurrence is presented, based on the CPRM reports
(2019) and some subsequent technical studies that describe the subsidence process
that already affects 5 neighborhoods in the city and the diagnosed environmental 

risks.
Finally, a geographic analysis of the environmental, social and economic impacts
caused and their consequences for the city of Maceió is built.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Interno - 1837255 - DOMINGOS SAVIO CORREA
Externo à Instituição - JOSE MESSIAS BASTOS - UFSCAR
Presidente - 1458194 - MARTA DA SILVEIRA LUEDEMANN