O planejamento regional no COREDE Fronteira Oeste : uma análise da articulação das políticas territoriais numa perspectiva multiescalar.

Abstract

This thesis refers to the planning process for regional development in Rio Grande do Sul (RS) focusing on the Regional Councils of Development (Coredes). Created with the basic principle of articulating the development of its regions, including through the elaboration of development plans, which was made feasible in 2009, with the Government of the State financing the elaboration of Coredes’s plans. In parallel, Coredes’s planning process occurs in a context of resumption of regional policy in Brazil after a period of predominance of liberal ideas, resulting from the collapse of the gold patron and the petroleum crisis. Against this context, the following research question was asked: which is the relation between the regional planning realized in the Corede West Border and the territorial development policies, created and implemented in multi-scalar perspective, in the context of the resumption of regional policy in Brazil? The content was analyzed and discussed with a materialistic, dialectic and historical approach, through literature review, documental research and semi structured interviews. The conceptual base adopted was centered in the regional development of planning and space scales, establishing, besides historical contextualization, some central conceptual elements in the reflection. In national scale, besides the National Policy of Regional Development, education, farming and road infrastructure and how each one of them contemplated the West Border region are discussed around some implicit policies. In state scale, some elements that historically explain the West Border’s territorial configuration are discussed in the context of the South Half and the regional policy discussion in the RS to approach the selected aspects as experiences of this policy of the State: decentralization of planning and the creation of the Coredes and its divisions, Popular Consultation and planning. The region is presented evidencing its socioeconomic fragility before the reality of the State and how the planning process took place. In the discussion comparing the theoretical recuperation with the interviews, it becomes evident the fragility faced by the Corede West Border, in what regards to its performance as the planning process itself, especially in its management, verifying that there was no articulation with the mechanisms of implementation of the federal scale’s policies for the region. However the process must be valued for what it represents as an experience of participation in the region. Still, it was verified the lack of political commitment with the planning proposals, resulting of the discontinuity problems in each government exchange, and also because of the rotation of the performers. In its turn, this situation derives from the lack of consensus in the comprehension of the biggest objective of the Council, regional development, making the regional commitment with the proposal difficult, which would be overcome by the ‘’generalized’’ domain of the plan as a reference to the region. Therefore, for the Corede West Border, besides being a qualifying element of participation, the planning must be understood as a historical and dialectic process, whose advances take place in a slow and gradual way, requiring a more propositional attitude of valuing its work.