Banca de DEFESA: LAÍS ARIANE MARTINS BARBOSA CORREIA

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : LAÍS ARIANE MARTINS BARBOSA CORREIA
DATE: 29/11/2023
TIME: 08:30
LOCAL: https://meet.google.com/bsh-jahv-vix
TITLE:

HEALTH AND ENERGY: (a)symmetries in the promotion of Healthy Territories in Rio Grande do Norte.

KEY WORDS:

Healthy Territory. Wind energy. Sustainability. Semiárido. Rio Grande do Norte.

PAGES: 200
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Geografia
SUBÁREA: Geografia Humana
SPECIALTY: Geografia Urbana
SUMMARY:

This thesis highlights the importance of promoting health both for the biological body and for the dignity and development of human potential. It conceives Health in a multifactorial way and, not exclusively, based on biological issues, and presents its spatial approach, translated into the designation of Healthy Territories, as a valuable indicator of sustainability in assessments of territorial impacts. It starts from the premise that it is not enough to enable the use of high renewable energy potential as a solution for electricity supply, without thinking about combining it with the space of production and living, therefore, with the territory (SANTOS, 2008). It argues that energy production must be integrated as a key element for changes in the territory and the materialization of solutions that promote health and well-being for populations (GALVÃO, 2020). This is because the expansion of renewable energy for electricity production puts pressure on the environment economically and socially on different scales (from global to local), and in particular, in regions with the best winds. In these, the materialization of the action of globalization vectors affects territories differently and incompletely - sometimes mitigating, sometimes worsening unsustainability. Therefore, if on the one hand the natural conditions of Rio Grande do Norte favor the conversion of wind into electricity, on the other hand, the territories covered by energy generation projects are spaces marked by social backwardness, with their resident population facing difficulties of all kinds. orders, including general health conditions. This highly complex dialectic is expressed in the obfuscation of the banal territory by the dynamics of networks that, based on verticalities, disregard ordinary life and its everyday problems (SANTOS, SOUZA, SILVEIRA, 1998). Given this panorama, the thesis requires a theoretical construction in which the concepts of Territory, Health and Energy are considered from their interfaces, with Sustainability as a backdrop. Therefore, Healthy Territory and renewable energy appear as perspectives for providing socio-environmental quality to society and are aligned, from a Sustainability point of view, with the social, economic and environmental context of the territory as a resource, guaranteeing the accomplishment of particular interests, and as a shelter, based on the development of strategies that guarantee survival in the places (SANTOS et al., 2000). Therefore, the thesis seeks to understand the relationship between wind energy production and the promotion of a Healthy Territory in the communities of Amarelão, Serrote de São Bento, Assentamento Santa Terezinha and Enxu Queimado, in Rio Grande do Norte, and proposes, as a methodological tool, an analysis matrix based on the elements of space (SANTOS, 2014a). To achieve its objective, it employs bibliographic, documentary and field research from the perspective of a case study. It is characterized as exploratory, descriptive and explanatory with a predominantly qualitative approach to analyzing the data generated through the application of a research form, focus group and semi-structured interviews, in addition to the collection of secondary data. Finally, it defends the thesis that the production of wind energy results in limited benefits for the well-being of the local populations of the Amarelão, Serrote de São Bento, Assentamento Santa Terezinha and Enxu Queimado communities, with insufficient impact on the improvement of socio-environmental conditions and, therefore, in the promotion of Healthy Territories.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 350836 - IONE RODRIGUES DINIZ MORAIS
Interno - 3060741 - HUGO ARRUDA DE MORAIS
Interno - 1803535 - ADRIANO LIMA TROLEIS
Interna - 2615432 - JANE ROBERTA DE ASSIS BARBOSA
Externo à Instituição - EDNALDO DE PAIVA PEREIRA - IFRN
Externo à Instituição - NEILTON FIDELIS DA SILVA - IFRN
Externo à Instituição - SAMUEL DO CARMO LIMA - UFU