Desenvolvimento e preservação na criação do Complexo Industrial Portuário de Suape

Abstract

This research proposes to analyze a series of documents produced by intellectuals, scientific entities and government department that discussed the environmental issue in the Suape region during the years 1973 to 1980, in the middle of the Military Dictatorship in Pernambuco. The ecological issue was seen during the execution of the construction project of the Suape Industrial-Port Complex (CIPS) as a hindrance to the development of the policy to encourage industrialization in Pernambuco. Politicians and Politicians and technicians of the State credited the importance of the project to the state's economic development. However, scientists and university professors made a number of criticisms concerning the protection of the local environment. Through these different narratives, we refer to this work in the historiography of the Military Dictatorship of 1964-1985, which analyzes the economic model of incentive to export with the creation of industrial complexes. We also analyze the historiography of environmental thought, both in Brazil and in the world, which defended a reduction of the impacts that the industrialization process brings to the environment presenting several cases of ecological disasters that caused diseases and the deaths of thousands of people. We conclude that the proposals of preservation of Suape, raised by the environmental activism, dialogued with the thought of the time. Even during the authoritarian regime of 1964-1985, environmental activism in Pernambuco was able to dialogue with the State to create measures to preserve the area of Suape without their influence on the execution of the initial project.