CAPES KNOWLEDGE AREA

URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING AND DEMOGRAPHY

CONCENTRATION AREA

REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC POLICIES

Line of research 1 – Development and Public Policies

Aims to promote projects that involve the theoretical and analytical debate of the complex and multidimensional issues of development in its spatial-territorial dynamics, seeking to train its researchers in the cycle of public policies that do not neglect this dimension.

Policies aimed at development, whether those seen as an instrument of economic expansion or those aimed at the material improvement of society, elect a set of elements that ratify the understanding of the PPGDT, corroborating the multidimensionality and transversality of policies. Policies aimed at economic growth do not rule out improving the quality of life of the population, but choose consumption patterns, income flows, allocation of resources and, above all, an increase in the quantity of goods and services per unit of time available to a given population. certain collectivity. Thus, policies dialogue more closely with economic variables, making economic agents, mainly the market, the main interlocutor.

Development, in general, depends on local characteristics, based on history, culture, demographic conditions, geographic attributes, especially with regard to the natural resources they possess. Economic development can be measured by indicators of income, per capita income, GDP and productivity, concomitantly with the reduction of poverty levels, unemployment and inequality, in addition to the improvement of infrastructure and collective equipment (schools, hospitals, transport, etc.). Although it can be seen from the perspective of economic growth, sometimes even taken as a synonym, development cannot just be a reflection of economic growth, since it is not enough to determine it, although indispensable. Even if it is not a sufficient condition, economic growth is important to achieve development, which in turn is characterized by qualitative changes in the community’s way of life, in political institutions and in productive structures.

The role of the State in establishing policies aimed at sustainable development is not limited to stricto sensu development policies, but in efficient actions that aim to promote economic growth combined with human development. Product of the tense dialogue between a multiplicity of agents, whose interests are heterogeneous, the State, depending on the management, builds policies that reduce (or aggravate) social inequalities, mitigating (or not) the social cost of the local, regional or national economic system . Thus, this Line examines the many notions of development articulated to the State’s action, seeking to analyze the economic dimension of these experiences. Not being able to neglect socioeconomic development policies, the research focuses on development processes based on the intrinsic articulation of policies (or lack thereof) with the realities where actions take place, seeking to highlight endogenous elements (those related to the mobilization of resources of each territory) in these processes.

Finally, the Development and Public Policies Line, in practice, aims to promote projects that involve the theoretical and analytical debate of the complex and multidimensional issues of development in its territorial spatial dynamics, in the cycle of public policies, dialoguing with the perspective of urban-rural synthesis from a local-regional perspective, of large investment projects, macroeconomic policies, urban-rural development policies, productive arrangements, innovations, agrarian issues, cultural policies, combating poverty and misery, violence, among other themes that bring together the macro level of analysis. This line includes the geographical reach of Latin America and the perspective of South-South relations.

Faculty

PhD. Aldenilson dos Santos Vitorino Costa (DAP/ICSA/UFRRJ)
PhD. Carla Hirt (IFRJ)
PhD. Diná Andrade Lima Ramos (DeCE/ICHS/UFRRJ)
PhD. Lamounier Erthal Villela (DeCE/ICHS/UFRRJ)
PhD. Raquel Pereira de Souza(VEA/UFF)
PhD. Robson Dias da Silva (DHE/IM/UFRRJ)

Line of research 2 – Sustainability and Territorialities

Aims to understand the spatial transformation processes and their implications on territorial development based on a theoretical and analytical framework for socio-environmental studies referenced in sustainability in its various dimensions.

Sustainable development is based on a social practice that seeks to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to also meet their own needs. Sustainability practices in the social dimension involve economic and environmental aspects, as well as the fulfillment of social commitments aimed at reducing inequality. In this way, economic prosperity, environmental quality and social justice are pillars and indicators of sustainability, whose basis is also based on a triad: economic efficiency, social equity and environmental preservation.

The social transformations promoted by the practices of multiple subjects in a given territory must be learned from the demands of communities, political advances and cultural dimensions, which are interacting at the moment of the action itself. Thus, political interests of different groups, correlation of forces and institutional capacity of local/regional/national power can be seen in the construction of instruments by the State and of social practices that make possible the emergence of a fairer society.

Sustainability involves collective social participation. Observing the social relations established in a given community in favor of a sustainable and socially committed development allows us to uncover processes of change over time in a territory. Territory configured here by the correlation of political forces, also taking into account the cultural dimension or political culture of the various groups that are interacting, seeking better living conditions. Thus, in a given region there may be several territories. Geography is subsumed to cultural and political aspects, but mainly to the social practices of groups and their political disputes for sustainable development. In this way, sustainable development articulated to the territory must be thought of as a product, as a social construction, the result of the processes of appropriation and domination of space. The territory is then seen as a place where all actions take place, where man fully realizes himself.

In this way, the processes of social transformation and their implications on territorial development are observed from a theoretical and analytical framework for socio-environmental studies referenced in sustainability. In the Territorialities and Sustainability Line there are themes and objects that dialogue with the perspective of territoriality in parallel with the multifaceted dimensions of a territory, in particular, themes such as agroecology, food security, natural resources, urban sustainability, environmental law, sanitation, settlements, land issues, among other perspectives at the meso level that relate public policies and territories.

Faculty

PhD. Adriana Soares de Schueler (DAU/IT/UFRRJ)
PhD. Ana Paula Dias Turetta (EMBRAPA Solos)
PhD. Cristhiane Oliveira da Graça Amâncio (EMBRAPA AGROBIOLOGIA)
PhD. Susana Iglesias Webering (DAT/IM/UFRRJ)
PhD. Tatiana Cotta Gonçalves Pereira (Direito/UFRRJ)

Line of research 3 – Territorial Planning and Management

It considers the impacts of globalization from the perspective of urban, rural and regional issues of the closest geographical context – the surrounding territories and the metropolitan area in which it is inserted – prioritizing the reduction of regional and intra-regional asymmetries and the crossing of processes of participation, cooperation and social inclusion involved in the planning and management of public policies for territorial development.

Faculty

PhD. Denise de Alcantara Pereira (DAU/IT/UFRRJ)
PhD. Lúcia Helena Pereira da Silva (DHE/IM/UFRRJ)
PhD. Marcio Silva Borges (DAT/IM/UFRRJ)
PhD. Vinicius Ferreira Baptista (DAP/ICSA/UFRRJ)