Barragens de mineração no estado do Pará: direito à informação e a participação como instrumentos de prevenção de danos socioambientais

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze how the control and monitoring instruments of mining dams in the State of Pará provide information and participation for effective prevention of social and environmental damage. Thus, the general objective of the work is to contribute to the affirmation of the control and monitoring instruments of mining dams, aiming at the prevention of social and environmental damage in the State of Pará. The research involves three specific objectives. The first was to verify how information and participation can be considered as instruments of prevention of social and environmental damage in the risk society and in the Democratic State. To develop this analysis the research investigates the legal content of the principle of information, participation and prevention, essential for the exercise of participatory democracy in the risk society. The second objective was to analyze the legal system of control and monitoring of mining dams in Brazil and how they are defined in environmental licensing. The third objective was to analyze the control and monitoring mechanisms of mining dams in the state of Pará, identifying each one of them and how the control and monitoring instruments of mining dams in the state of Pará provide information and participation for effective prevention of social and environmental damage. The methodology used is applied, and to meet the proposed objectives is a qualitative and descriptive research, based on bibliographic and documentary sources, whose main challenge was the collection of data on quantity, characteristics and application of instruments of mining dams in the State of Pará. It was concluded that the principles of participation and information are necessary tools in the prevention of social and environmental damage and contribute to an effective system of control and monitoring of mining dams, it also lays the foundation for participatory democracy. The social relevance of the theme to the State of Pará is notorious, as the second state of the federation with the largest number of mining dams in its territory, for being a producer of various ores.