Questão social e meio ambiente: apropriação do território e os impactos ambientais em Juiz de Fora/MG

Abstract

This work has as its central object the discussion of social issues and the environment from the appropriation of land and environmental impacts in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, from 1980 to 2010. The analysis is in its relationship with the factory and Votorantim Metais Zinco SA in Igrejinha. He demonstrates this relationship through its deployment strategy for its proximity to the public entity in pursuit of securing their interests and those of his class fraction.It starts with the assumption that such a relationship established in a context in which development was articulated in the new channels of representation, as well as the State, the force capable of protecting the interests of private capital. The research pointed to the fact that the establishment of the factory in Juiz de Fora and more specifically in Igrejinha gave up effectively by the alliances between capital and power in all federal, state and municipal levels, the latter of whom was responsible to create and maintain conditions favorable to plant in the region, especially with regard to infrastructure. Another key element obtained through our research is the fact that the population of the district has enjoyed Igrejinha not in any measure of goods produced by capital gains in your living space during the past 30 years. We also found that the ratio of local to the environment has been made in the interests of capital while minimizing significant environmental impacts in the locality.