Regional planning and the environmental question in Santa Catarina: ups and downs

Authors

  • Luciana Butzke UNIFEBE
  • Ivo Marcos Theis Universidade Regional de Blumenau-FURB

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v16i0.11349

Keywords:

regional planning, the environmental question, Santa Catarina, planejamento regional, questão ambiental

Abstract

This article aims to examine the regional and urban planning process in Santa Catarina taking as the
theoretical and normative reference the “planning for sustainable territorial development” approach. It
has been assumed that the Santa Catarina’s experience of planning has characteristics of conventional planning: it puts the economic dimension and the short term in the foreground, it is centralized, and it
addresses the regional and urban inequalities, as well as the environmental issues, in an inadequate way.
This contribution looks at the Santa Catarina’s experience of planning by indicating the characteristics
of the conventional planning process and by identifying those aspects that pointed towards a “planning
for sustainable territorial development” process – a process which refuses to focus on the economic
dimension, which is oriented to the long term, which considers transdisciplinarity, decentralization and
social participation. The question is discussed in order to reveal the ups and downs of the regional and
urban planning process in Santa Catarina, taking as horizon the “planning for sustainable territorial
development” approach.

Author Biographies

Luciana Butzke, UNIFEBE

Cientista social, mestre em Sociologia Política pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, pesquisadora do Núcleo de Pesquisas em Desenvolvimento Regional e professora da UNIFEBE

Ivo Marcos Theis, Universidade Regional de Blumenau-FURB

Economista, doutor em Geografia pela Universidade de Tübingen (Alemanha), coordenador do Núcleo de Pesquisas em Desenvolvimento Regional, professor e pesquisador da Universidade Regional de Blumenau.

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Published

2007-12-30

How to Cite

Butzke, L., & Theis, I. M. (2007). Regional planning and the environmental question in Santa Catarina: ups and downs. Desenvolvimento E Meio Ambiente, 16. https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v16i0.11349

Issue

Vol. 16 (2007): Social Planning and Recreated Nature

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