[Economic development axis and socioenvironmental conflicts generation in Brazil: challenges to sustainability and environmental justice].
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The characteristics of the Brazilian model of development, its impacts and conflicts within social, environmental and health fields are discussed and some elements that could be incorporated by a research agenda committed to the debate about the 'socioenvironmental crisis' are proposed.Abstract:
A realizacao da 1a Conferencia Nacional de Saude Ambiental, a ser realizada em dezembro de 2009, apresenta inumeros desafios ao campo da Saude Coletiva. Seus objetivos e eixos adotam conceitos-chave como desenvolvimento, sustentabilidade, processos de producao e consumo, a questao da democracia e das politicas publicas, revelando a abrangencia, a novidade e o forte carater interdisciplinar e intersetorial da Saude Ambiental. Ao resgatar e articular temas importantes para a Saude Coletiva, a conferencia aponta para a necessidade de refletirmos sobre os determinantes socioambientais da saude na atualidade, de forma a avancarmos na construcao de diretrizes e acoes de vigilância e promocao da saude. Este artigo discute as caracteristicas do modelo de desenvolvimento brasileiro, seus impactos e conflitos socioambientais e sanitarios. Usamos como referenciais teoricos e empiricos os acumulos provenientes dos campos da economia ecologica e da ecologia politica, assim como as experiencias de cooperacao junto a Rede Brasileira de Justica Ambiental e diversos movimentos sociais. Dois casos serao aprofundados, o do agronegocio e uso de agrotoxicos, e a expansao da cadeia siderurgica no pais. Ao final, elencamos alguns pontos para compor uma agenda da "crise" socioambiental.read more
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