Social and environmental impacts on the construction of hydroelectric dams

Abstract

The present article has as its general objective to define and outline analysis under the implementation of hydroelectric dams in Brazil. The study on the impacts caused by such constructions is carried out through the economic, social and environmental prism. For the study, it starts from the legal-sociological aspect and uses the theoretical research methodology, based on a bibliographic review based on documents that highlight the exposed theme. As a result of the research, it is inferred that there is an asymmetry of power in the construction of such enterprises, which leads to a social appropriation of socio-environmental conflicts, insofar as the use of environmental spaces occurs to the detriment of the use that other social segments make of territory. Thus, it appears that hydroelectric dams generate environmental injustice, since they are built and implemented with the primary objective of benefiting certain economic sectors, in favor of the rights and fundamentals of the community directly and indirectly affected.