Author(s)

Raimundo da Costa Almeida¹, Christian Nunes da Silva², João Marcio Palheta da Silva³, Aghane de Carvalho Antunes Antunes⁴, Cynthia S. Simmons⁵, Daniel Araújo Sombra Soares⁶

¹Environment Center, Federal University of Pará (PPGDSTU/NAEA/UFPA), GAPTA/CNPq, Belém, Brazil.
²Environment Center, Federal University of Pará (UFPA), GAPTA/CNPq, Belém, Brazil.
³Faculty of Geography and Cartography, Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Belém, Brazil.
⁴Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, GAPTA/CNPq, Gainesville, USA.
⁵Department of Geography, University of Florida, GAPTA/CNPq, Gainesville, USA.
⁶Environment Center, Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Belém, Brazil.

This paper analyzes the socio-environmental impacts caused by the “Large Project” of mining in Barcarena, a municipality in the Brazilian Amazon located in the Metropolitan Region of Belém, with a previous rural history, abruptly converted into a mineral processing area. Through documentary analysis of taxes and fees generated, and local development indices, we show how mining activity does not generate development for the inhabitants of Barcarena. For the municipality, only externalities remain. We used secondary, statistical and cartographic data analysis, although we carried out fieldwork to understand the situation on the ground.

Mining-Metallurgical Activity, Municipal Tax Collection, Socio-Environmental Impacts, Barcarena, Brazilian Amazon

Almeida, R. , da Silva, C. , da Silva, J. , Antunes, A. , Simmons, C. and Soares, D. (2023) Large Mining Projects and Socio-Environmental Impacts: Economic and Socio-Environmental Dynamics in Barcarena (Pará, Brazil). Journal of Service Science and Management, 16, 567-591. doi: 10.4236/jssm.2023.165030.