Desastres ambientais e climáticos no Nordeste brasileiro : particularidades da “questão ambiental” em tempos de crise

Abstract

This monograph aims to analyze the particularities of environmental and climatic disasters in the Brazilian Northeast. To this end, a discussion was held on the "environmental issue" and its expressions in times of structural crisis of capital, as well as aspects of Brazilian socio-historical formation, within the processes of development of capitalism in the peripheral and regional reality, making considerations about the state, national environmental policy and the deepening of the expressions of the environmental issue. In methodological terms, bibliographical and documentary research was carried out - based on data from the Digital Atlas of Disasters in Brazil. This was a qualitative-quantitative study. The method used to apprehend reality is the historical-dialectical materialist method. The results of the study reveal an emerging scenario in the face of the "environmental issue" that is catastrophically unfolding at full speed in the globalized, Brazilian and regional scenarios. The data shows that regional particularities are the result of contradictions and combinations of economic, political, social and cultural forces, expressing that the class exploitation of the capitalist system is also expressed territorially.