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Title: Deep into the mud : ecological and socio-economic impacts of the dam breach in Mariana, Brazil.
Authors: Fernandes, Geraldo Wilson Afonso
Goulart, Fernando F.
Ranieri, Bernardo Dourado
Coelho, Marcel Serra
Dales, Kirsten
Boesche, Nina
Bustamante, Mercedes Maria da Cunha
Carvalho, Felipe A.
Carvalho, Daniel Cardoso de
Dirzo, Rodolfo
Fernandes, Stephannie
Galetti Júnior, Pedro Manoel
Garcia Millan, Virginia Elena
Mielke, Christian
Ramirez Malaver, Jorge Luis
Neves, Ana
Rogass, Christian
Ribeiro, Sérvio Pontes
Scariot, Aldicir
Soares Filho, Britaldo
Keywords: Heavy metals
Mining restoration
Water resources
Issue Date: 2016
Citation: FERNANDES, G. W. A. et al. Deep into the mud: ecological and socio-economic impacts of the dam breach in Mariana, Brazil. Natureza & Conservação, v. 14, p. 35-45, 2016. Disponível em: <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1679007316301104>. Acesso em: 25 ago. 2017.
Abstract: We review the ecological and socio-economic impacts ofthe catastrophic dam failure in Mariana, Brazil. Tailing management practices by Samarco mining company ultimately caused a dam breach that abruptly discharged between 55 and 62millionm3 of tailings into the Doce River watershed. On November 5th, 2015, a tsunami of slurry engulfed the small district of Bento Rodrigues, loading the Doce River and its estuary with toxic tailings along a 663.2 km trajectory, extending impacts to the Atlantic coast. Acute ecological impacts will adversely affect livelihoods of more than 1 million people in 41 riparian municipalities by reducing local access to fisheries resources, clean water, crop production sites, hydroelectric power generation and raw materials. The threats to riverine human communities are particularly critical for the disadvantaged populations from remote areas that rely on subsistence agriculture and fisheries, and are uniquely vulnerable to long-term heavy metal exposure. At the landscape scale, we predict multiple negative impacts, ranging from alterations of the genetic diversity of fish populations to long-term vegetation loss and poor regeneration in contaminated areas. Consequently, compromised soil stability and runoff control will increase the risk of further geomorphologic disturbance, including landslides, bank failure and mass movements. We propose spatially explicit long-term monitoring frameworks and priority mitigation measures to cope with acute and chronic risks. We posit that, from a national perspective, disastrous impacts like that of Doce River may become more frequent, given the recent regulatory changes that undermine both institutional governance structures and enforcement of environmental regulation.
URI: http://www.repositorio.ufop.br/handle/123456789/8997
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ncon.2016.10.003
ISSN: 2530-0644
metadata.dc.rights.license: This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Fonte: o próprio artigo.
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