Banca de DEFESA: HUGO MARTINS DE SOUZA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : HUGO MARTINS DE SOUZA
DATE: 23/02/2022
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Plataforma virtual, via Google meet
TITLE:

THE SOCIO-SPATIAL DYNAMICS OF URBAN SOLID WASTE IN CAICÓ - RN: REFLECTIONS AND PERSPECTIVES

KEY WORDS:

Caicó; Solid waste; Socio-spatial dynamics.

PAGES: 275
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Geografia
SUBÁREA: Geografia Humana
SPECIALTY: Geografia Urbana
SUMMARY:

Brazilian urbanization has intensified since the second half of the 20th century, marked demographically by the overcoming, in absolute numbers, of the rural population by the urban. However, the accelerated urbanization did not necessarily translate into an improvement in the quality of life of the Brazilian people, further accentuating the concentration of income and social inequalities, fundamental elements for the understanding of the various urban socio-environmental problems currently evidenced. In the Brazilian urban space, the socio-environmental impacts arising from anthropic activities are more evident, highlighting the huge amount of solid waste discarded daily by the population and companies, collected and dumped at all times in the dumps, creating urban socio-environmental problems, such as fluids liquids, called slurry, which flows from landfills and dumps, thrown into the environment, polluting the soil and water bodies. The discarded solid waste is produced socially by different social agents that directly or indirectly contribute and interact within the production process through various domestic and socioeconomic activities related to agriculture, industry and service provision, whose final destination, in most Brazilian cities and communities rural areas, is the inappropriate dumping of this material in vacant lots, water bodies, roads and dumps, open-air garbage deposits. In Caicó - RN, the seventh largest municipal population in Rio Grande do Norte, with 68,343 inhabitants, according to the IBGE's 2020 estimates, as in many Brazilian municipalities, solid waste after being discarded by the population is deposited in common containers, collected in followed by the local urban cleaning service and, finally, dumped in the open in the dump, without any appropriate technical infrastructure or any criteria for separation or classification by the municipal public service. The dump currently existing in the city of Caicó constitutes a serious public and environmental health problem, impacting the environment by polluting the air, the soil, groundwater, rivers, dams and dams in the region, such as the river basin of Rio Piranhas - Assu, the main in Rio Grande do Norte, with 17,472 Km², or 35% of the total territory of the state (IBGE, 2010). Thus, this research will aim to understand the socio-spatial dynamics of the problem related to solid waste in Caicó, in an integrated, participatory and inclusive perspective, emphasizing the understanding regarding the planning, ordering and management of urban solid waste, in addition to other related nuances, such as the situation of recyclable material collectors in this context highlighted above. Thus, bibliographic and field research will be carried out to help overcome the current model of garbage disposal, with the effective implementation of controlled sanitary landfills, mitigating the socioenvironmental impacts of this problem, serving as a reference for initiatives that generate changes and overcome the socio-spatial problem above.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 4891437 - IAPONY RODRIGUES GALVAO
Interna - 1759367 - REBECCA LUNA LUCENA
Externa à Instituição - CLESLEY MARIA TAVARES DO NASCIMENTO - URCA