SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON: THE INVISIBILITY OF TRADITIONAL COMMUNITIES IN THE FACE OF THE DEVELOPMENT MODEL.
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The objective of this research was to analyze the socio-environmental conflicts experienced in the Brazilian Amazon from the perspective of environmental racism, highlighting how the systematic exclusion of traditional communities from decision-making processes and the disregard of their territorial rights reveal structural forms of inequality. It also seeks to understand how the imposition of a hegemonic development model has contributed to the marginalization of these peoples and the worsening of socio-environmental injustices in the region. The central problem that guides this study lies in the following question: in what way do socio-environmental conflicts in the Brazilian Amazon reveal practices of environmental racism and the invisibility of traditional communities in the face of development policies? The methodology adopted for this research will be the deductive method, with a qualitative approach. As for the means, this is a bibliographic research, based on academic works, technical reports, institutional studies and legal documents that address the themes of environmental racism, socio-environmental justice and conflicts in the Brazilian Amazon. Thus, it is concluded that overcoming these conflicts requires the adoption of a more inclusive, plural and environmentally fair development model, which respects cultural diversity and the protagonism of the Amazonian populations.
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