Regional development and sustainability : the case of the Mezzo-region Chapada do Araripe ; Développement régional et durabilité. Le cas de la méso-région Chapada do Araripe
The objective of this work is to analyze the making of the discourse of social participation and of democratic governance in the sphere of public policies aimed at promoting regional development, implemented by the Federal Government of North-East Brazil. We seek, too, to verify in which measure this tool of public intervention has facilitated the creation of the socalled "green jobs", that is, those jobs related to sustainable activities ensuring economic efficiency, social justice, and ecological prudence. This study about social participation was made through interviews and surveys in a sample of participants from the "Fórum de Desenvolvimento Mesorregional", created in the context of the PROMESO in the Chapada do Araripe. In order to attain our second objective, this study used data provided by RAIS-MTE, verifying to which extent the employments created in the mezzo-region Chapada do Araripe, between 1997 and 2007, have facilitated the creation of new employments in the environmental sector, thus facilitating the birth of a new stage in the generation of a sustainable development in the Brazilian North-East. Our research shows that the change in the strategy of public intervention in the Brazilian North-East is not always accompanied by significant changes in the way that institutions act in the public policies sphere and the creation of green jobs. We conclude that, in spite of the existence of social capital in the region, the local society has not been completely mobilized in favor of the articulation of new way of public policies management in the region. And, in spite of the growing number of new jobs created during the period of our study, there is still no significant trend of using the environmental sector in the formulation of public policies for the combination of social and environmental strategies in the creation of green jobs. ; Ce travail a pour objectif d'analyser la réalisation du discours de la participation sociale et de la gouvernance démocratique dans les politiques publiques de ...