Aglomeração industrial, governança e meio ambiente: conceitos e premissas da abordagem do desenvolvimento territorial sustentável

• Main Authors: Paulo Henrique Freire Vieira, Elaine Cristina de Oliveira Menezes
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal do Paraná 2011-01-01
• Series: Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente
• Subjects: sustainable territorial development; industrial clustering; governance
• Online Access: http://ojs.c3sl.ufpr.br/ojs2/index.php/made/article/view/20765/17083
• ISSN: 1518-952X; 2176-9109

The acute rescue of the literature on the concept of eco-development performed a role of unquestioned relevance to understand how the territorial productive dynamics have some impact on the environment. It is observed that the styles of contemporary development are not favoring the internalization of the socio-environmental problem in the usual practices of planning and management. The discussion proposed in this study is situated in this scope, whose objective is to analyze the contributions of the territorial development theories and the discussions on the socio-environmental sustainability to approach the sustainable territorial development. The methodological aspects adopted in this study are oriented in a predominantly qualitative approach, based on a selective review of the relevant literature on the subject. The study was based on the bibliographic research obtained from secondary sources, in national and international studies on the territorial productive dynamics, governance and environmental sustainability. In the conceptual scope that guided this study the sustainable territorial development is considered as an ongoing process whose starting point is the socio-environmental degradation issue, and its relation to the strategies for long-term development. Within this concept the contribution of the territorial approach that has brought innovations to the socioeconomic and socio-political fields stands out. On the other hand, the contributions from the discussions on sustainability based on eco-development also rescue the essential elements for territorial and environmental management. We conclude that there are needs for empirical studies that integrate this issue and that can take this new management and planning approach further: the sustainable territorial development.