Governança e sustentabilidade institucional das ações de combate à desertificação: uma proposta metodológica de avaliação.

Abstract

The term governance has become a key concept to be understood and applied within the environmental management practices, especially in environmental public policy. Through governance, shared management processes are created and responsibility among users of natural resources is established by setting rules and mechanisms aimed at conflict resolution. Good governance directly affects the promotion of sustainable development not only in terms of results in the socioeconomic and environmental system, but also the continuity of the policies. In particular, this paper discusses the governance and its relation to the institutional sustainability around the management of natural resources. The backdrop for empirical this thematic treatment were to combat desertification actions starting from a global perspective (global institutions and processes of the UNCCD), through national analysis (actions within the federal government), state (States with core desertification) to arrive at a diagnosis regional / local (desertification Core Seridó / RN). Four specific issues were raised on this issue: What elements are essential to ensure institutional sustainability of combating desertification policies at the national and international context? How to analyze the institutional and governance of public policy elements to infer its institutional sustainability situation? In the Brazilian context, what problems are at the basis of non effectiveness of combating desertification policies and which paths must be trodden with a view to their solution? general objective of the research was to analyze the relationship between governance and sustainability of the actions combating desertification in the context of Brazil pointing challenges and possible solutions for the low effectiveness of public policies that act on the issue. Therefore, the institutional elements and essential governance for institutional sustainability of public policy were identified; It was proposed, implemented and validated a methodology for evaluating the governance and institutional sustainability of combating desertification policies in the areas of UNCCD and Brazil; and discussed the problems that underlie the non effectiveness of policies to combat desertification in the Brazilian context pointing out possible solutions