A Socio-Environmental Development Programme in Action in Brazilian Amazonia

This paper deals with the process of scaling up and scaling down grassroots demands through a state-sponsored socio-environmental development programme in Brazilian Amazonia called Proambiente (Pro-environment). The paper attempts to understand the links between the three different levels of the pro...

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Main Authors: Ana Maria de Albuquerque Vasconcellos, Mário Vasconcellos Sobrinho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração (ANPAD) 2012-01-01
Series:BAR: Brazilian Administration Review
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Online Access:http://www.anpad.org.br/periodicos/arq_pdf/a_1281.pdf
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description This paper deals with the process of scaling up and scaling down grassroots demands through a state-sponsored socio-environmental development programme in Brazilian Amazonia called Proambiente (Pro-environment). The paper attempts to understand the links between the three different levels of the programme actions: the macro (federal government), intermediate (NGOs), and local (community) levels. The central paper’s issue is to understand how a state-sponsored socio-environmental development programme interacts with and impacts local communities. The theoretical paper’s framework involves the approaches of participatory development and governance. The methodology is based on three levels of qualitative analysis (macro-, intermediary- and local-level). The paper (a) describes the trajectory of the Proambiente and the process of scaling up communities’ demands; (b) reveals contradictions within the Proambiente implementation; and (c) debates the impacts of the programme actions at local level. The paper reveals that once the state encompasses local people’s demands and creates a development programme, the development model absorbs multi-actor interests that change local people’s proposals. It also shows that the challenge facing a socio-environmental development programme like the Proambiente is to find a balance between production and conservation aims.
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spelling doaj.art-7a2e2f6ff8164de993f4bd1dc3f4cc2b2023-01-02T10:03:26ZengAssociação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração (ANPAD)BAR: Brazilian Administration Review1807-76922012-01-01912343A Socio-Environmental Development Programme in Action in Brazilian AmazoniaAna Maria de Albuquerque VasconcellosMário Vasconcellos SobrinhoThis paper deals with the process of scaling up and scaling down grassroots demands through a state-sponsored socio-environmental development programme in Brazilian Amazonia called Proambiente (Pro-environment). The paper attempts to understand the links between the three different levels of the programme actions: the macro (federal government), intermediate (NGOs), and local (community) levels. The central paper’s issue is to understand how a state-sponsored socio-environmental development programme interacts with and impacts local communities. The theoretical paper’s framework involves the approaches of participatory development and governance. The methodology is based on three levels of qualitative analysis (macro-, intermediary- and local-level). The paper (a) describes the trajectory of the Proambiente and the process of scaling up communities’ demands; (b) reveals contradictions within the Proambiente implementation; and (c) debates the impacts of the programme actions at local level. The paper reveals that once the state encompasses local people’s demands and creates a development programme, the development model absorbs multi-actor interests that change local people’s proposals. It also shows that the challenge facing a socio-environmental development programme like the Proambiente is to find a balance between production and conservation aims.http://www.anpad.org.br/periodicos/arq_pdf/a_1281.pdfgovernancedevelopment programmeAmazoniaproambiente.
spellingShingle Ana Maria de Albuquerque Vasconcellos
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BAR: Brazilian Administration Review
governance
development programme
Amazonia
proambiente.
title A Socio-Environmental Development Programme in Action in Brazilian Amazonia
title_full A Socio-Environmental Development Programme in Action in Brazilian Amazonia
title_fullStr A Socio-Environmental Development Programme in Action in Brazilian Amazonia
title_full_unstemmed A Socio-Environmental Development Programme in Action in Brazilian Amazonia
title_short A Socio-Environmental Development Programme in Action in Brazilian Amazonia
title_sort socio environmental development programme in action in brazilian amazonia
topic governance
development programme
Amazonia
proambiente.
url http://www.anpad.org.br/periodicos/arq_pdf/a_1281.pdf
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