Thirteenth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses

Abstract

The research proposes to problematize the socio-environmental phenomena that cross the health panoramas in Latin America and that are related to the Antarctic Continent. It reflects that these phenomena do not start from an intrinsic or natural mechanism of this territorial space, but from an integrated relationship between economic, political, and historical practices, inscribed in a specific development regime, with effects on health panoramas in the Latin American context. The discussion on the correlation between environmental events resulting from anthropogenic activities and human health is increased. The debate points to the correlation between “planetary health” and “global health” perspectives, the management of resources and policies for mitigation and solution of the effects on environmental systems. It also points out that the impacts on human systems occur in heterogeneous geography, due to the unequal distribution of socioeconomic conditions, the disposition of natural resources and the unequal policies of development implementation. The development policies implemented in Latin America, usually at odds with environmental guidelines, have had several consequences: they have not fulfilled the promises of inclusion of the population in a welfare state and access to health; and, through the symbolic and material appropriation of resources, they have caused significant losses in the capacity of biological systems to regenerate themselves in a timely manner to the extractive demands imposed. It is, therefore, necessary to analyze specifically how they occur and what their actors, conflicts, and discourses currently propose.