Políticas públicas, ocupação do espaço e desenvolvimento na região norte mato-grossense : uma análise crítica dos municípios de SINOP e de Lucas do Rio Verde - MT.

Abstract

The present study focuses on the programs and projects of the Brazilian government that culminated in the process of territorial occupation of northern Mato Grosso and its influences on the development of the municipalities of Sinop and Lucas do Rio Verde. The specific choice of these two municipalities based study took place on the basis of historical peculiarities which evolved the implementation of its projects of colonization, its economic dynamism and social spatial problems generated by this process. The policy of occupation of northern Mato Grosso had as one of the initial purposes the possibility of occupying the spaces considered demographically "voids" of the Brazilian territory through migration and direct the flow of migrants into the Amazon. The aim of this study is to investigate and analyze the connections between migration and development, under a multidisciplinary look on the projects and programs implemented in this remote area of Brazil. The study was conducted in the cities of Sinop and Lucas do Rio Verde, located in northern Mato Grosso, originating from colonization projects public and private in the 1970s and 1980s respectively. These projects were designed with the intention to ease social tensions generated by the concentration of land in the south due to the process of agricultural modernization and its incorporation into the global economy that has promoted economic and social interdependence between country and city. The study of this research is the development policy outlined by the federal government and its relationship with the segregation and social exclusion in the region. Therefore we analyzed the process of development of the northern region of Mato Grosso, from the designs of Glebas Celeste and Rio Verde, culminating with the territorial reconfigurations of the municipalities of Sinop and Lucas do Rio Verde.