Barragens no Sul do Brasil: análise de políticas compensatórias e da qualidade de vida.

Abstract

The growing process of production and consumption presupposes the increasing demand of energy. In Brazil, this growing demand created the need to expand the electrical system, which was made from the 1960s, mainly through large-scale hydroelectric construction. The implementation of these mega-enterprises generates many conflicts because the populations affected by these buildings have their life changed dramatically due to the relocation. This study carried out the construction of indices from the selected survey questions prepared by "Project Research and Development: Evaluation of results and preparation of model proposition relocation programs of the population affected by hydroelectric projects" in 2011 and applied in a sample of 632 individuals relocated due to the construction of hydropower plants (HPP) Ita, Machadinho, Barra Grande, Campos Novos and Foz do Chapecó, located in the basin of the Uruguay River, on the border between the states of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina . In this dissertation, we have to analyze the relationship between the implementation of hydropower projects, and quality of life (social welfare, environmental sustainability and economic well-being, household infrastructure and quality of public services) of the populations affected by dams, as well as evaluate the effectiveness of compensatory policies used by entrepreneurs to repair the losses that local communities were submitted, considering that such developments impacted area of approximately 50 municipalities of the region, and the wetlands belonged in their most of the farmers, causing the displacement of about 12,800 households, which corresponds to approximately 60 thousand.