Dissertação
O desenvolvimento insustentável no caso Minas do Camaquã, Caçapava do Sul/ RS
Fecha
2008-09-01Autor
Cabreira, Denis Pansardi
Institución
Resumen
This work treats about the history of economical and social development in a small rural
community that originated, expanded and almost disappeared due to an extractive productive
activity of nonrenewable natural resources: mining. The general objective is to recover the
course of the community of Minas do Camaquã and its association with mining, and to
register the reactions and consequences for the social dimension of the local development
since the absence of this economical foundation. From then on, the specific goal is to
analytically reveal that the economical dimension was not enough to sustain the developing
process in a once thriving rural community. The theoretical reference for these demonstrations
and analysis are the concepts of development and sustainability. Contrasting with the
ordinary, the methodology employed here approaches these concepts in an afterward moment
to the description of the cycles and local particularities of the development to evaluate the
most important facts identified in the studied case in the light of the parameters of sustainable
development. Therefore, the construction of the essay was firstly determined by the
documental and bibliographical research about the social and economical history of Minas do
Camaquã, as well as the examination of the concepts in question. After that, the investigation
adopted procedures inspired in the research-action techniques for a fieldwork that aimed at
obtaining the opinion of the local people about what was missing so that the developing
process happened in a more consistent and lasting manner than it had in the past. After
crossing relevant facts and theoretical data, the outcome is the presentation of an example of
the importance of the social dimension in the developing processes in small rural
communities. Furthermore, it shows how hard and complex the social reorganization analysed
under the approach of sustainability related to mining can be.