The impacts of Covid-19 on the major mining municipalities in Brazil
This paper discusses the influences of mining on the spread of the new coronavirus in the largest mining municipalities in Brazil, since its determination as an essential activity to face Covid-19. The theoretical discussion approaches the issue of whether the virus is spreading further or not among...
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| Format: | Artigo |
| Language: | Inglês |
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Escola Nacional de Administração Pública (Enap)
2020
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| Online Access: | http://repositorio.enap.gov.br/handle/1/5554 |
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| Summary: | This paper discusses the influences of mining on the spread of the new coronavirus in the largest mining municipalities in Brazil, since its determination as an essential activity to face Covid-19. The theoretical discussion approaches the issue of whether the virus is spreading further or not among workers who have maintained their activities in the mining sector. The objective of this article is to investigate the impact of Covid-19 on mining and whether the maintenance of this activity is related to a higher incidence. To measure incidence rates, the qualitative methodology involved a case study of mining municipalities selected by the amount of royalties collected and for the maintenance of activities by monitoring the supply of jobs during the pandemic. The incidence of cases was georeferenced on maps and the results analyzed by population range. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) applied to the mineral sector were used as a purpose for this investigation. The results found that: (i) among 997 municipalities in the states of Pará and Minas Gerais, the incidence of Covid-19 is relatively higher in selected mining municipalities; (ii) there is a greater proportion of Covid-19 cases in the selected municipalities than in others in the same population range; (iii) the supply of jobs in the mining sector in the selected municipalities remained stable compared to the period before the pandemic. |
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