Megaempreendimentos, urbanização e saneamento básico: um estudo sobre Mangaratiba/RJ

Abstract

This work aims to study how Mangaratiba City has been planning and enabling the issue of sanitation (water and sewage) under the pressure exerted by demographic changes that came from mega-projects installed in the Sepetiba Bay area last decades. Since past decades, megaprojects (steel industry, logistics and the military industry) have been both setting up and expanding local economic growth. Population flows are been detecting as part of this new economic pathway as well the consequently increasing of households within a territory that has geographical aspects unfavorable to this fast expansion. By these issues there is the need for urban planning headed by municipal government in order to creating public policies and programs that aim to improve the population quality of life. The work has as a temporal focus the decades between 2000/2010 because important historical descriptions were detected. Bibliographical research, data analysis and field research were used as methodological tools having been fundamentals to conclusion: the existing concern of the precarious situation of the municipality with the basic sanitation sector.