Desenvolvimento sustentável e produção + limpa: (des)caminhos da "modernização ecológica" em indústrias dependentes de lenha no semiárido

• Ano de defesa: 2012
• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Tiago Barbosa da
• Orientador(a): Cunha, Luis Henrique Hermínio
• Banca de defesa: Sousa, Cidoval Morais de , Rodrigues, Roberta Menezes
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual da Paraíba
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Desenvolvimento Regional - PPGDR
• Departamento: Desenvolvimento Regional; Pró-Reitoria de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa - PRPGP
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Sustentabilidade; Ecologia Política; Gestão ambiental
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Sustainability; Political Ecology
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.uepb.edu.br/handle/123456789/72434

Cleaner Production is claimed to be a way to achieve sustainability in industries, mainly in complex industrial plants. In Northeastern Brazil, Centro de Produção InduItsstrial Sustentável CEPIS has promoted the Cleaner Production methodology among simple companies in which technology use is still feeble, such as red ceramics industries in Seridó, in the State of Rio Grande do Norte. This study drew upon the role of science and scientist in the creation and diffusion of a new environmental order based on the concept of sustainable development, on the Ecological Modernization Theory, and on Cleaner Production, trying to identify the powers behind its diffusion. Therefore, its main goal is to comprehend the logics proposed by CEPIS, its fundaments and its relation with the idea of sustainability, through an analysis based on Political Ecology, and to comprehend the role played by technoscience and technicians in this process and, in addition, how it has been translated to the semiarid region. Its specific aims are: 1) to analyze the evolution of environmental ideas, presenting the theoretical tenets of sustainable development which relate to the methodology of C+P, promoted by international organizations; 2) to discuss the role played by science and by scientists in the construction of an order based on the idea of sustainable development and how its logics has been translated to the technicians of CEPIS, and 3) to criticize the translation of sustainable development and Cleaner Production which has been made to the companies of Seridó, discussing its function. Once finished, the study showed that Cleaner Production is one more project of modernity and that alone its suggestion of technological improvements, of management and process control, and its suggestions of recycling/reuse are not capable of turning red ceramics companies into sustainable industries, but of enabling them to better fit this new order.