Territorial governance in Brazil: institutional specificities, logical space and development policies

• Grant number: 15/25136-8
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: September 01, 2016
• End date: November 30, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Regional Geography
• Principal Investigator: Elson Luciano Silva Pires
• Grantee: Elson Luciano Silva Pires
• Host Institution: Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas (IGCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Adriana Renata Verdi ; Antonio Ricardo Dantas Caffe ; Bernadete Aparecida Caprioglio de Castro ; Claudete de Castro Silva Vitte ; Claudio Antonio de Mauro ; Clóvis Caribé Menezes dos Santos ; Cristovão de Cássio da Trindade de Brito ; Eduardo Fernandes Marcusso ; Eduardo Gabriel Alves Palma ; Eugenio Lima Mendes ; Heleni Duarte Dantas de Ávila ; José Antonio Lobo dos Santos ; Lucas Labigalini Fuini ; Noeli Pertile ; Paulo Roberto Teixeira de Godoy ; Vania Silvia Rosolen ; Wilson Bento Figueiredo Filho

Abstract

Considering the knowledge and challenges posed by the development of FAPESP project (process 11 / 50837-9), the current proposal aims to deepen the understanding of power relations and the public and/or private influences in the development of political actions, as well as, to investigate better the possibilities of expansion regarding the coordination of planning strategies of territorial development, and of the construction of political hegemonic and counter-hegemonic processes possible in these territories. The project has as object the modalities of territorial governance in the states of São Paulo, Minas Gerais, and Bahia (Basin Committees, Sectoral Chambers, Inter-municipal Circuits of Tourism, Regional and Territorial Councils, and Committees of Management of Local Productive Arrangements), questioning whether such forms of organization are innovative element in public policy, with possibility of influencing the planning strategies of sustainable, democratic and participatory territorial development. Thus, the main objective of the project is to analyze the effective capacity of interference of these governance arrangements in the regulatory processes of the territories and in planning actions of development from Brazil. Departing from the challenge of previous project, this project will examine whether such modalities of organization contribute to the process of decentralization of Brazilian policies, which began with the promulgation of the 1988 Constitution. (AU)