Mediation of Socio-environmental Conflicts in Paraná: Mining and Impacts on Public Health

Abstract

Socio-environmental conflicts are issues result from anthropic pressure on the environment that reflect social and politics aspects, mostly where the public power does not provide solutions for the necessity of local citizens. In Brazil, there are relevant scientific works related to the theme. Most articles present a diagnostic regarding the conflict. There is a gap on studies based on theorical approaches that consider a specific case and the people involved in it. Accordingly, this paper takes into account São Mateus do Sul - PR, a city that hosts a shale mining plant. Disagreements from the citizen that claims on respiratory diseases resulted to a lawsuit by the Public Ministry of Paraná. The conflict was analyzed by Dynamic Analysis Rondeau Model (1996), to indicate other solutions, besides judicialization of conflicts. Primary data were obtained through the analysis of the content of public civil actions filed at Judiciary/PR. Take into account the challenge of the theme and the fact that the courts are filled of unsolved socio-environmental conflicts, this article brings an important issue: the evaluate of conflicts based on theorical approaches that might result in decision-makers in a short time.

Keywords:
Socio-environmental conflicts; Mining; Diagnostic Model of Rondeau; Environmental Pollution; Health