BARRAMENTOS E A POPULAÇÃO RIBEIRINHA: A GENTRIFICAÇÃO VERDE SOB A PERSPECTIVA DAS CIÊNCIAS SOCIOAMBIENTAIS NA REPRESA DE TRÊS MARIAS

Globalization guarantees a productive and financial dynamic, which provides a greater possibility in the choice of the installation location by companies, consequently changing the environmental and attractive conditions for the fixation of man (Sanchez, 1999). This phenomenon is the result of the diffusion of capitalist cities, which since 1970 have adopted a strategic management model for cities, replicating business management models. This scenario led to green gentrification, a phenomenon hitherto widely studied in urban areas. But with this “new rural” as a result of agricultural modernization and the creation of new activities within it and as a result of the water crisis, green gentrification has become a phenomenon of rural influence, the result of developmental processes that stimulate capital accumulation. In this work we will present information from data collected in the field, along the rural communities bordering the São Francisco River, in the dam of the Três Marias Hydroelectric Plant, in Felixlândia/MG, alongside data from SIDRA/IBGE about population and land use information by MapBiomas. We will also consider information from the Environmental Agency on Negative Concessions, since green gentrification is related to water conflicts, resulting from the impossibility of its multiple uses, increased competition resulting in the unavailability of water in the region and the imbalance caused for the creation of the Três Marias Lake with its positive and negative impacts. All the data were gathered in order to understand what has led rural communities to move to other areas, which we believe is consequence of green gentrification.