The present project proposes to carry out a study of environmental perception on the large
mining enterprises in the Municipality of Barcarena, in the State of Pará. The study will
be carried out based on the hierarchy of needs proposed by Abraham Maslow (2014),
sustainable development variables and large mining projects in the Amazon. The research
will seek to answer the following question: How does the implementation of large projects
in the Amazon affect the environmental perception of the population of the municipality
of Barcarena (Pará, Brazil), considering the socio-environmental impacts resulting from
these projects? The main hypothesis for this question considers that: the implementation
of large projects in the Amazon has caused significant socio-environmental impacts in
the municipality of Barcarena (Pará, Brazil), which affect the environmental perception
of the local population. And it will have as its general objective: To understand, from the
perception of society in the Municipality of Barcarena, how the variables of sustainable
development (social, economic, spatial, environmental, cultural and political) are
impacted by large mining projects in the Amazon. The specific objectives will be: to
examine whether political leaders, representatives of organized civil society and the
population of the Municipality of Barcarena, through their perceptions, relate the negative
externalities that impact the Municipality to large mining enterprises; assess whether
large mining projects are implemented in a Top Down manner; and analyze, based on
official data, how mining projects in the municipality of Barcarena have impacted on
sustainable development. The product generated by the research will be a manual for
claiming, monitoring and controlling the implementation of mitigation measures for large
projects in the Amazon. The survey will be carried out with the application of online
questionnaires to the population and in person to a sample of the target audience of the
online survey, with the aim of carrying out the reambulation of the online survey. A social
cartographic survey will also be carried out, with the traditional population impacted by
mining projects.
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