A charcoal frontier

The steel industry and forest in twentieth-century Minas Gerais (Brazil)

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ID3754732
AutoresLenício Dutra Marinho Júnior (0000-0003-2432-0503, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Minas Gerais), Haruf Salmen Espindola (0000-0003-4609-288X, Universidade do Vale do Doce River (UNIVALE), Brasil), Eunice Sueli Nodari (0000-0001-5953-649X, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil; Universidade do Vale do Doce River (UNIVALE), Brazil)
Ano2024
Volume27
Data de publicação2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmbiente & sociedade (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1414-753X • E-ISSN: 1809-4422
EditoraFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1809-4422asoc0033r1vu27l2oa
OpenAlexW4396680246
SCIELO_PIDS1414-753X2024000100309
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas9

Focusing on the charcoal-fired steel industry in the Doce River Valley (rural eastern Brazil), this article sets out to understand the relationship between industrial-scale mining and the transition from iron factories to large steel mills. At the same time, it addresses the further destruction of the Atlantic Forest. Studies on the steel industry that highlight the pressure exerted on the Atlantic Forest by charcoal plants are almost nonexistent, however. Turning to technical reports, official statistics, journals, and other media sources and centering attention on Belgo-Mineira company, it highlights a set of data that enables us to measure the impacts of the charcoal-fired steel industry on forests. In order to get a deep insight, the main aim was to estimate the amount of forest extraction to serve the steel industry from 1936 to 1954. The data from this research show that the charcoal-fired steel industry gave a distinctive cast to the phenomenon of the agricultural frontier

Archaeology · Charcoal · Environmental protection · Frontier · Geography · Metallurgy · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Materials Science · Forestry