Democracia e meio ambiente: análise do discurso científico e do discurso organizacional de um consórcio intermunicipal.

Abstract

The objective of this research is to analyze the relationship between democracy and the environment from the perspective of scientific and organizational discourse in the environmental management of an inter-municipal public consortium. For this purpose, in the scientific discourse, a literature survey was used using the Scopus and Web of Science databases, from 1944 to 2019, with support from the VOSviewer, resulting in the bibliometric study and an integrative systematic review, while in the organizational discourse it used based on documentary research, in both speeches the data were treated by textual, thematic and/or interpretive analysis techniques. The result of the mapping of 118 articles that deal with the relationship between democracy and the environment, pointing out the dispersion of publications in areas of knowledge and research institutions, the existence of the designations of environmental, green, ecological and sustainable democracy, it was also found that the main publications networks are centered in the countries: United States, United Kingdom and Australia, with publications dispersed among research institutions, journals or areas of knowledge, realizing as a common point: participation, even if approached in different ways. It was also noted that these four designations can be seen as part of a larger constellation of research that connects environmental and democratic values, including theoretical and empirical work on participation, environmental justice, transparency, accountability and legitimacy in environmental governance. Each of these names follows scientific discourses with a theoretical-methodological path that complement and explain them. Regarding the environmental approach of these scientific discourses, there was a predominant anthropocentrist tendency with an emphasis on Marxist thought, when considering the typology of Foladori (2000), for understanding the environmental problems and crises arising from capitalist productions, and, in the cartography of Sauvé (2005) discourses are predominant in recent currents, highlighting criticism, praxis, bioregionalism and sustainability. Finally, regarding the organizational discourse, it was observed that the Intermunicipal Consortium, from the perspective of the guidelines of environmental democracy, presented an incipient access to information, made through limited channels such as the website, and access to public participation is non-existent, from so that the practices of environmental democracy in the consortium are minimally instrumental only in the pillar of access to information.