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In 2015, the Samarco-operated Fundão dam collapsed in the municipality of Mariana, Brazil, unleashing a tsunami of nearly two billion cubic feet of mineral waste onto downstream communities. Over the course of 20 days, the waste traveled over 370 miles downriver, contaminating waterways and destroying almost 1,600 acres of vegetation. Nineteen people died and more than 600 families lost their homes. Brazilian economist Mônica Viegas will share the results of her 2021 study to estimate health-related quality of life (HRQoL) losses among affected communities.
Learn more about the panel series on "Predatory Extractivism: Brazil's Largest Mining Catastrophes in a Global Context" and register to attend.
Moderator: Marcia Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography; Chair, Brazil Studies Program; Chair, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Speaker: Mônica Viegas, Full Professor, Economics Department, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Discussants: Alexandra Andrade Gonçalves Costa, 1st Treasurer, AVABRUM and Denise Bebbington, Research Associate Professor, Sustainability and Social Justice, Clark University
Presented in collaboration with the Department of Global Health and Population (HSPH), Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, the Center for International Development, the Human Rights Program at HLS, and The Center for the Study of Natural Resources Extraction and Society at Clark University.