Igor Cavallini Johansen, Miquéias Freitas Calvi, Verônica Gronau Luz, Ana Maria Segall-Corrêa, Caroline C Arantes, Victoria Judith Isaac, Renata Utsunomiya, Vanessa Cristine E Souza Reis, Emilio F Moran
Within the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, large hydropower dams are positioned as a sustainable energy source, notwithstanding their adverse impacts on societies and ecosystems. This study contributed to ongoing discussions about the persistence of critical social issues, even after the investments of large amounts of resources in areas impacted by the construction of large hydropower dams. Our study focused on food insecurity and evaluated this issue in the city of Altamira in the Brazilian Amazon, which has been profoundly socially and economically impacted by the construction, between 2011 and 2015, of Brazil's second-largest dam, namely, Belo Monte...
January 30, 2024: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health