Quatro décadas de eucalipto em Alagoinhas/Ba: ações e medidas de controle, monitoramento e fiscalização do poder público municipal frente à expansão da monocultura na região

Abstract

This monograph aims to understand the treatment given by the Municipal Government of Alagoinhas/BA to the irregular expansion of eucalyptus monoculture in the region and the socio-environmental damage resulting from it, in view of exceeding the limit of 10% of the extension of its territory for the planting of exotic species, determined by Article 156 and its subsections of the Municipal Organic Law. To this end, semidirective interviews were conducted with public agents who worked in the Secretariat of Economic Development and Environment, between the early 2000s and the present day, and with representatives of local institutions that support family farming. The theoretical referential was built from the following authors: Lefebvre (2008), Oliveira (1995), Delgado (1985), Araújo (2009), Scardua and Bursztyn, (2003), Giaretta, Fernandes and Philippi Junior (2012), Bim and Farias (2015), among others. Another research technique used was documentary analysis from a 2019 recertification audit report of BRACELL, a group that has been exploiting eucalyptus in the region for four decades, a report surveying the socio-environmental damage related to the company Bahia Pulp S. A. (now BRACELL) and affiliates, from the 2000s, constitutional and legal provisions, as well as the minutes of the revision of the Municipal Organic Law, in 2003. The Municipality of Alagoinhas has legislative and administrative powers to perform the control, monitoring and supervision of eucalyptus plantations, despite the difficulties pointed out in the study, such as the economic power of BRACELL, a technical staff that does not meet the needs of the municipality, lack of interest and commitment of the representatives of the Public Power with the environmental agenda and low social participation in municipal management.