Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: HEMILI VITORIA DO CARMO PIMENTEL

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : HEMILI VITORIA DO CARMO PIMENTEL
DATE: 01/12/2025
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Google meet
TITLE:

Hydroelectric Power Plants Conflicts and Tensions with Protected Areas in the Legal Amazon

KEY WORDS:

Legal Amazon, Protected Areas, Hydroelectric Plants.

PAGES: 117
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Geografia
SUBÁREA: Geografia Humana
SUMMARY:

The Legal Amazon region, due to its immense ecological, economic, political and cultural importance, 

is the scene of an intricate network of interests involving national and international actors. 

In this context, two territorial public policies stand out that significantly shape the Amazon region, 

the first being the environmental territorial public policies that are the creation of protected areas 

(Conservation Units - UCS and Indigenous Lands - TI) and the second, the developmental territorial 

public policies, which are marked by large infrastructure works (Hydroelectric Plants-UHES) among others. 

However, the implementation of these plants in protected areas presents a series of contradictions and

 challenges, such as changing boundaries in protected areas, deforestation, traditional communities subject 

to increased vulnerability, due to agrarian conflicts, for such an assertion the object of study in this research 

will be the Amazon Cool. In this sense, the analyzes carried out in the study have a regional scope, aiming

 to achieve a general objective: to identify areas of tension and typifications of contradictions or even conflicts

 in protected areas (Conservation Units and Indigenous Lands) around the Hydroelectric Power Plants in the 

Legal Amazon. Following the specific objectives: (I) Temporalize the process of implantation of hydroelectric

 plants (operation, planned) and their environmental aspects. (II) Demonstrate the redefinitions of limits in 

the conservation units of concentration due to the hydroelectric plants (III) Describe the concentrations of 

protected areas that are around the radius of 40 km of the hydroelectric plants in order to identify the zones 

of threats. Concept used: Territory, Territory Management Planning, Territorial Policies. The chosen method 

will be the dialectical one, the methodology established in this research refers to the qualitative, quantitative 

and explanatory approach, the methodological procedures of data acquisition for the protected areas will be

 from the National Register of Conservation Units - CNUC and also from the data from Instituto Socioambiental

 - ISA, for hydroelectric plants, Georeferenced Information System of the Electricity Sector - SIGEL. 

The results on the implementation of hydroelectric plants in the Legal Amazon have a complex temporal 

dimension, covering both the period of the first hydroelectric plant, the current operation of the plants, and 

the planning stages. Amazonia Legal currently has 31 HPPs in operation, 86 HPPs planned. In this context, 

2 stand out, that the limits of UCs were expanded, while another 10 UCs suffered reductions, and 2 UCs

 were excluded. From the results obtained, it was verified the existence of a total of 226 protected areas in 

the vicinity of the 75 planned hydroelectric plants studied. And 5 protected areas around 3 hydroelectric 

plants in operation. Territory management are processes that can significantly contribute to minimizing the 

impacts of hydroelectric plants on conservation units and indigenous lands. In this way, it is necessary that 

the implantation of hydroelectric plants in sensitive areas be carefully evaluated and based on technical studies

 that point to the viability of the undertaking and that the impacts are minimized or mitigated. 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - GIRLANY VALÉRIA LIMA DA SILVA ARAÚJO - SEDUC
Interna - 1057610 - LUCIANA RICA MOURAO BORGES
Externo à Instituição - MARCOS MASCARENHAS BARBOSA RODRIGUES - UNIFESSPA
Presidente - 2666681 - MARIA MADALENA DE AGUIAR CAVALCANTE