Ecossistemas industriais: proposição de estrutura analítica e avaliação do complexo sucroalcooleiro do Triângulo Mineiro

Abstract

This work emerges from a dual problem: i) the industrial ecosystems approach can be used to observe if an industrial complex promotes the development of a given region?; and ii) from the industrial ecology, the territorial approach and the sustaincentrism, how can the sugar and alcohol complex be evaluated with respect to its capacity to generate economic, social and environmental development?. The main objective of this work is to develop, from the literature, an model to analyze the Industrial Ecosystems that include the elements of Sustaincentrism, Industrial Ecology and Territorial Approach. From the analytical framework, the object (the sugar and alcohol complex inserted in Triângulo Mineiro, Minas Gerais, Brazil) is observed aiming to identify the features of an industrial arrangement that is socially inclusive, economically viable and, at the same time, don t cause constraints to the environment. This work is adopting a descriptive kind of research, which uses mostly qualitative methods. The primary data, obtained by the application of questionnaires to a substantial sample of the universe that composes the sugar and alcohol complex in Triângulo Mineiro, complements the secondary data (obtained from literature review). The results, in some way, corroborate the hypothesis adopted: i) the industrial ecosystems approach, alone, can t insert the social and cultural elements on the analysis, tending to put on evidence, technical and economic aspects so, in that way, is necessary to complement it with another approaches that can insert those social elements; and ii) the sugar and alcohol complex still needs to evolve into new ways of social integration with the local and regional environment where it belongs, despite the fact that there are some important environmental and social gains in response to institutional pressures on the last decade.