Impacto social da mineração: uma comparação entre a percepção da empresa e a da comunidade

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to compare a community's perception of a mining project's social impacts and the perception of the company responsible for the project. The instruments to achieve this were the Social Impact Assessment proposed by Aledo and Domínguez-Gómez (2018) and the proposed categorization of mining impacts by Mancini and Sala (2018). The methodology included interviews and two workshops with representatives of the mining company and the community. The results show that the company's process of selecting impacts focuses on the most immediate, often business-biased risks associated with the government's absence and inefficiency to support local development projects. The community's view, however, goes beyond the most immediate impacts, such as water supply and quality as well as the decrease in agricultural production, towards subjective and cultural issues associated with the processes of change. It is inferred that the partial view of impacts by the company weakens the strategy of compensatory social projects. The deeper issues associated with impacts, such as the loss of collective sentiment and the impact of the migratory process on the severity of family ties, are disregarded while choosing and implementing projects in the community