O meio biótico nos termos de referência de estudos de impacto ambiental de UHEs brasileiras - a raiz dos problemas
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2018-07-09
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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The Brazilian federal government assumes the imminence of an energy crisis. Thus,
hydroelectric projects appear as a preventive response to the reduction of energy resources and
to eventual socioeconomic instability arising from this problem. Therefore, it becomes pertinent
to several sectors the discussion about the socioeconomic, physical and biotic aspects that are
affected by the implantation of hydroelectric dams. Despite the legal, technical and scientific
aspects of the brazilian Environmental Licensing (EL) process, it is part of an administrative
process, and comply with protocols defined in Reference Terms (RT). Thereby their stages,
including the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), must conform to the proposal of these
documents to enable the flow of the EL process. The literature indicates shortcomings in
environmental licensing processes related to EIAs, with the nature of these gaps varying from
administrative, legal, technical, and scientific methods. Still in this plea, the literature also
points out problems regarding the biotic aspects of environmental impact assessment. These
errors lead to environmental impacts that are difficult to mitigate, since they were not predicted
or evaluated during the studies. Observing these premises and considering the RT as the base
of the methods used in these studies, it is possible to suppose that this document is one of the
problems origins observed in the subsequent phases. Are the guidelines for the biotic
environment in RTs in line with what is proposed by science? The analyzes in this study
demonstrate that the scientific quality of the biotic environment protocols is low. It is known
why sample – as this question answers a legal requirement too –, but it is not known the best
sample targets neither the adequate way to sample, which may lead to irreversible impacts. The
prognosis is disappointing, with an increase of 0.53% in quality per year, considering 1988 as
the starting year, it will still take 158 years to reach the ideal.
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BATISTA, G. A. O meio biótico nos termos de referência de estudos de impacto ambiental de UHEs brasileiras - a raiz dos problemas. 2018. 49 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Ciências Ambientais) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2018.