A consideração dos deslocados ambientais na deliberação e as consequências do rompimento da barragem de fundão em Mariana/MG

Abstract

This work addresses the expressive environmental tragedy in the history of Brazil, which took place on November 5, 2015, in the Municipality of Mariana, in the State of Minas Gerais, when the Fundão dam operated by Samarco, owned by Vale and BHP Billiton, it broke. The objective of this research is to identify the violation of the fundamental human rights of the affected communities, to understand how the affected communities participated in the preventive and post-disaster deliberation, to identify reparative actions for those affected and to analyze the controversial concepts of the terms used which designate people affected by environmental disasters. In the elaboration of the research the qualitative method was used, the case study, with the participation of the District Attorney of Mariana, part of the environmental displaced persons and Social Assistants who work with those affected. We sought to analyze the consequences of the environmental disaster as regards the environmental displacement of communities that were directly affected by the mud, the lack of adequate terminology for environmental displaced persons, as well as social, economic and environmental post-disaster problems. The study on the consequences of the environmental tragedy intends to serve as an important warning instrument on the importance of the prevention and precaution of the risks to the environment, to serve as a memorial to present and future generations of the importance of precautionary mechanisms as fundamental instruments for environmental protection, considered the pillar of environmental law and the implementation of an Environmental Constitutional State