Hydropower plays a strategic role in energy policy in Brazil and worldwide. Despite advantages such as cost competitive and low-polluting and renewable nature, negative impacts undertake its expansion. The size of the development, the impacts and the number of actors involved translates into conflicts increasingly frequent and difficult equation. The article presents the views of stakeholders in the process of environmental licensing Brazilian hydroelectric, collected through questionnaires. We conclude that, even with the advances, there is still a social immaturity highlighted by a segmented view, where individual and group interests prevail, which does not rule out that a systemic and equitable be established.
Hydroelectricity; Licensing; Impacts; Conflicts; Interests
