Environmental and public health policy issues in Brazil

Abstract

The industrials processes that marked the evolution of capitalism since the mid-eighteenth century, defined models of energy-environmental nature and configured energetic and technical patterns that have had their impacts on populations at the level of migration, rural exodus and standard of living. Thus, the First Industrial Revolution (FIR), which took place in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, its implications and consequences of institutional and economic order, promoted a large displacement of people from the countryside to the cities. Dismounted up relationships forms of productive, economic and social organization, and pouring up huge amount of dispossessed peasants in cities. Indeed, mechanized industrial production showing up incipient to promote the absorption of these huge migratory contingents. Large industrial conglomerates pertaining to the Second Industrial Revolution (SIR) also used hand labor migrated from the fields, but the reality that dawns with the Third Industrial Revolution (TIR) makes room for agro-energy, alcohol chemistry and a new agro-industry while modernization of engines, hand labor absorption and mitigating the rural exodus.