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1152/2012 - The Unbearable Lightness of Aluminum: social and environmental impacts of Brazil‘s REPLACEion in the global primary aluminum
A Insustentável Leveza do Alumínio: impactos socioambientais da inserção do Brasil no mercado mundial de alumínio primário

Author:

• ALEN BATISTA HENRIQUES - Henriques, AB. - itamarati de minas, MG - ESCOLA NACIONAL DE SAÚDE PÚBLICA SÉRGIO AROUCA - <alenhenriques@gmail.com>

Co-author(s):

• MARCELO FIRPO SOUZA PORTO - Porto, M. F. S. - ESCOLA NACIONAL DE SAÚDE PÚBLICA SÉRGIO AROUCA - <marcelo.firpo@ensp.fiocruz.br>

Thematic Area:

Saúde e Ambiente

Abstract:

This article discusses the aluminum production in Brazil and its socio-environmental impacts and public health, and in recent years is becoming a more important commodity metal to maintain a positive trade balance nationally. The impacts of aluminum production chain put into question the widespread idea of sustainable growth by business groups that operate in the sector. The article defends the thesis that the REPLACEion of Brazil in the global aluminum market is part of a new configuration of the International Division of Labor - DIT, whose economic activities polluting and highly energy dependent, as the case of aluminum have been moving to nations peripheral or emerging countries, where often the laws are less harsh, so they are less influential environmental movements and the claims of the affected populations in the territories affected in their rights to health, healthy environment and culture. The competitiveness of this commodities guaranteed in the international market, from the production of externalities such as environmental damage, deforestation, emissions of greenhouse gases and scenarios of environmental injustice, as well as enterprises in the construction of hydroelectric dams that expose traditional communities to situations involving the loss of their territories.

Keywords:

Primary aluminum industry Environmental impacts

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Henriques, AB., Porto, M. F. S.. The Unbearable Lightness of Aluminum: social and environmental impacts of Brazil‘s REPLACEion in the global primary aluminum. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2012/Jul). [Citado em 27/09/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/the-unbearable-lightness-of-aluminum-social-and-environmental-impacts-of-brazils-replaceion-in-the-global-primary-aluminum/10672



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