Impactos socioambientais na geração de energia eólica: supressão de lagoas interdunares e insegurança alimentar na comunidade de Xavier, Camocim, Ceará

Abstract

The growing demand for energy has caused a considerable increase in the deployment of wind farms in Brazil, where such ventures if improperly installed in environments of great environmental and instability within the territories of traditional communities, impacting the social background and environmental. From these perspectives, the present study has as general objective to analyze the suppression and burial of interdunares ponds, caused by the implantation of a wind farm in the traditional community of fishermen from the Praia de Xavier, Camocim-CE, assessing the unfolding of such actions and consequences of the deployment of wind turbines around the community. The methodological procedures of a qualitative and exploratory profile were built from two great moments, fieldwork and cabinet work, organized in several methodological steps in the composition of the work. From this, the research found that the residents of Xavier suffer negative impacts related to their food sovereignty, because the deployment of inappropriately the wind farm in their territory caused changes in the natural coastal dynamics with the disassemble of dunes and the burial of interdunares ponds of the region, where they were used for fishing and as a place of leisure for the residents. Thus, the inhabitants are with their food security compromised, since they do not have an alternative of fishing in the second half of the year, when the sea fishing is compromised due to the winds that grow stronger in that period, seeking other alimentary alternatives to supply the withdrawal of the fish, affecting the family budget and causing a possible protein deficit and an increase in the consumption of industrialized products.