The environmental justice in the production of official statistics on the environment: United Nations determinations and Brazil
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.62758/re.v2i1.160Abstract
Having as premise the importance of environmental issues in contemporary times, the paper discusses the theme of environmental justice and the importance of its representation within the scope of official statistics on the environment, making an interweaving of issues on environmental justice, information, and international statistics. The starting point are the questions: are Brazil's official statistics on sustainable development under the responsibility of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) in line with international statistics developed by UN bodies in charge of environmental justice and related issues? In what way do Brazilian statistics reflect a concern to portray ethical issues at the environmental level, particularly the issue of environmental justice? Such questions translate into the following main objective: to identify to what extent the issue of environmental justice is reflected in environmental indicators of the United Nations and the IBGE. For this, the contents of the classifications adopted in these institutions are investigated, aiming to identify elements that are close to the theme of environmental justice, even if indirectly. It mobilizes, a literature on environmental justice, access, ethics, and use of environmental information, which contextualizes the discussion on the production of information on the environment in Brazilian statistics, vis-à-vis the recommendations and statistical frameworks of the United Nations. The work identified that the classifications focused on here have a more quantitative bias, in such a way that information on environmental justice is not directly contemplated. Even so, environmental classifications and some national products are already moving towards incorporating quality of life and ethical issues linked to environmental justice. In addition, it is possible to derive some ethical issues from the combination of data already available.
References
Acselrad, H. (2010). Ambientalização das lutas sociais: o caso do movimento por justiça ambiental. Estudos Avançados, 24 (68), 103-119. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0103-40142010000100010. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0103-40142010000100010
Acselrad, H. et al. (2008). O que é justiça ambiental. Garamond.
Alizadeh, M. R.et al. (2022) Increasing heat-stress inequality in a warming climate. Earth's Future, 10 (2), 1-10. https://doi. org/10.1029/2021EF002488. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002488
Bullard, R. (2004) Making Environmental Justice a Reality in the 21st Century. Sustain, (10), 5-12. https://uwosh.edu/sirt/wp-content/uploads/sites/86/2017/08/Bullard_Environmental-Justice-in-the-21st-Century.pdf.
Capurro, R. (2001). Desafios teóricos y prácticos de la ética intercultural de la información. The Philosophers’ Magazine, (6), 18-19 http://www.capurro.de/paraiba.html.
CEPA (2000). Classification of Environmental Protection Activities 2000. https://unstats.un.org/unsd/classifications/Family/Detail/1009.
Dahlberg, I. (2006) Knowledge Organization: a new Science? Knowledge Organization, 33 (1) 11-19. https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0943-7444-2006-1-11.pdf.
Keller, A. (2014) Collapse: The Only Realistic Scenario [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPb_0JZ6-Rc.
IBGE (2015). Indicadores de desenvolvimento sustentável. https://biblioteca.ibge.gov.br/index.php/biblioteca-catalogo?view=detalhes&id=294254.
Issberner, L-R & Léna, P. (2018) Anthropocene: the vital challenges of a scientific debate. The UNESCO Courier, (2), 7-10. Disponível em: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000261900 .
Jacobi, P.R. & Maia, R. A. (2016) Challenges, and strategies to strengthen the relationship between science and politics regarding climate change. Ambiente e Sociedade, 19 (4) 235-248. https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-4422ASOCEx0005V1942016. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-4422asocex0005v1942016
Lena, P (2012). Os Limites do crescimento econômico e a busca pela sustentabilidade: uma introdução ao debate. In P. Léna & E.P Nascimento (Eds.), Enfrentando os limites do crescimento: sustentabilidade, decrescimento e prosperidade (pp. 23-44). Garamond. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/books.irdeditions.19989
Löwy, M. (2012). Crise ecológica e crise de civilização: a alternativa ecossocialista. In P. Léna & E.P Nascimento (Eds.), Enfrentando os limites do crescimento: sustentabilidade, decrescimento e prosperidade (pp. 147-156). Rio de Janeiro: Garamond. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/books.irdeditions.20037
Martínez-Alier, J. (2007) O ecologismo dos pobres: conflitos ambientais e linguagem de valoração. Contexto.
Martinez-Alier, J. (2014). Between activism and science: grassroots concepts for sustainability coined by Environmental Justice Organizations. Journal of Political Ecology, 21 (1), 19-60. https://doi.org/10.2458/v21i1.21124 DOI: https://doi.org/10.2458/v21i1.21124
Morin, E. (2015a). A via para o futuro da humanidade. Bertand Brasil.
Moore, J. (2015) Nature in the limits to capital (and vice-versa). Radical Philosophy, (193) 9-19.
Nações Unidas (2021) O direito humano a um meio ambiente seguro, limpo, saudável e sustentável. Conselho dos Direitos Humanos. A/HRC/48/L. https://www.conectas.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/res-48_13-DH-ao-meio-ambiente-TRADUZIDO.docx-1.pdf
Nações Unidas (2019). Statistics. https://unstats.un.org/unsd/statcom/.
Nações Unidas (2018). Acordo regional sobre acesso à informação, participação pública e acesso à justiça em assuntos ambientais na américa latina e no caribe. https://repositorio.cepal.org/bitstream/handle/11362/43611/S1800493_pt.pdf.
Nações Unidas (2013) Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics (FDES 2013). https://unstats.un.org/unsd/envstats/index.cshtml.
Nações Unidas (2012). Environmental Economic Accounting, Background documents. https://unstats.un.org/unsd/statcom/43rd-session/documents/.
Quintslr, M. (2018). Agendas Estatísticas Oficiais: política de informação, poder e (in) visibilidades [Dissertação de mestrado, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia) Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. https://ridi.ibict.br/handle/123456789/1002.
Vieira Pinto, A. (2008). O conceito de tecnologia. Contraponto.
Zhouri, A (2008). Justiça ambiental , diversidade cultural e accountability. Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais 23 (68), 97-107. https://doi.org/10.1590/S010269092008000300007. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0102-69092008000300007
Wardle, C., DERARKHSHAN, H. (2017) Information disorders: Toward an interdisciplinary framework for research and policymaking. Concelho da Europa. https://rm.coe.int/information-disorder-toward-an-interdisciplinary-framework-for-researc/168076277c.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2023 Revista EDICIC
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
The Association holds the copyright of the texts it publishes and, therefore, adopts a Creative Commons License, CC BY 4.0 DEED Attribution 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/
You are free to:
- Share: copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially.
- Adapt: remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
