MAPPING SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICTS IN THE TERRITORY OF SUAPE, PERNAMBUCO / BRAZIL

Abstract

The current socioeconomic model culminates in an unsustainable development that places economic interests ahead of the human populations, fauna and flora that serve their subsistence. In this sense, socio-environmental conflicts are responses from vulnerable communities that use different means to be “heard”. In these social spaces, it is possible to observe environmental health being attacked, directly, through the abuses of companies and, indirectly, through the silence of the media and public authorities. In this sense, the study aimed to map the socio-environmental conflicts in the territory of Suape and expose the inequalities and injustices in this region in favor of unsustainable development. This is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach. Secondary data from the database “mapping socio-environmental conflicts in the territory of Suape” were used, adapting them to the criteria of the Global Environmental Justice Map -Ejatlas. The analysis of the results revealed the existence of socio-environmental conflicts in the territory of Suape, related to issues about land/housing ownership and violence against residents living in the Suape Industrial Complex (CIPS). Finally, it was shown that the existing socio-environmental conflicts in the CIPS are old movements, however, historically silenced. In this way, giving visibility to the socio-environmental conflicts existing in the Suape territory means giving these communities a voic