Mining activity in Brazil and negligence in action

Autor(es)

Salvador, Gilberto Nepomuceno ^{[1, 2]} ; Leal, Cecilia Gontijo ^[3] ; Brejao, Gabriel Lourenco ^[4] ; Pessali, Tiago Casarim ^[5] ; Mascarenhas Alves, Carlos Bernardo ^[6] ; Rosa, Gustavo Ribeiro ^[7] ; Ligeiro, Raphael ^{[1, 2]} ; de Assis Montag, Luciano Fogaca ^{[1, 2]}

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Univ Fed Para, Programa Posgrad Ecol, Av Augusto Correa 01, BR-66075110 Belem, Para - Brazil

^[2] Univ Fed Para, Lab Ecol & Conservacao, Belem, Para - Brazil

^[3] Univ Sao Paulo, Lab Hidrol Florestal, Escola Super Agr Luiz Queiroz, Piracicaba - Brazil

^[4] Univ Estadual Paulista, Inst Biociencias Letras & Ciencias Exatas, Lab Ictiol, Sao Jose Do Rio Preto - Brazil

^[5] Pontificia Univ Catolica Minas Gerais, Museu Ciencias Nat, Belo Horizonte, MG - Brazil

^[6] Univ Fed Minas Gerais, Lab Nuvelhas, Projeto Manuelzao, Belo Horizonte, MG - Brazil

^[7] Pontificia Univ Catolica Minas Gerais, Programa Posgrad Biol Vertebrados, Belo Horizonte, MG - Brazil

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: PERSPECTIVES IN ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION; v. 18, n. 2, p. 137-142, APR-JUN 2020.
• Citações Web of Science: 0

Resumo

The number of disasters involving tailings storage facilities has increased in Brazil. Only in the last six years, there have been six disasters involving this type of structure. Despite the vast socio-environmental impacts, little has been done to mitigate the damage caused. The negligence of mining companies and the lack of efficient management approaches at river basin-level have greatly hampered efforts for environmental recovery. In addition, although Brazil has signed the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, there has been a slowdown in Brazilian environmental legislation, which can facilitate the implementation of mines and tailings storage facilities. To finish, we suggest some options to turn this situation around. (C) 2020 Associacao Brasileira de Ciencia Ecologica e Conservacao. Published by Elsevier Editora Ltda. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 17/25383-0 - Avaliação em larga escala das ameaças antrópicas à biodiversidade aquática da Amazônia
• Beneficiário: Cecília Gontijo Leal
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Brasil - Pós-Doutorado
• Processo FAPESP: 18/11954-9 - Redes fluviais como conectoras da paisagem: a qualidade das conexões ripárias influencia os padrões de diversidade de peixes de riachos?
• Beneficiário: Gabriel Lourenço Brejão
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Brasil - Pós-Doutorado