SILVA, José Irivaldo Alves Oliveira.; OLIVEIRA, John Brehmer de Sousa Alves.
Resumen:
The concept of sustainable development (DS) emerged in the 1980s with notable reflections on
governance structures and politics in general. In the same decade a theory of ecological
modernization (ME) has been developed, which, as a subcategory of the general discourse of
sustainability and political strategy of the same, has gained important space in the environmental
field. There is still no period in which no seminar has been started. The São Francisco River
Integration Program with the Northern Northeastern Basins (PISF) and its São Francisco River
Basin Revitalization Program (PRSF) are the federal projects that achieve the sign of sustainable
development. Contradictory expressions and the consequences in the sphere of materiality that are
emitted in such precepts, and still, in the process of a strategy of ecological modernization, mainly
in the PRSF. Next, it has been developed as a general objective and as dynamics is developed on the
Brazilian semi-arid, using a DS referential, having as background of analysis a trajectory of the
official development policy for a region and the case of PISF. It has as specific objectives (a) as
different forms that they assume as governmental actions of development for a locality; B) the place
of the DS in its recent development policy, including the San Francisco integration program; (C) the
process of ecological modernization in the non-PISF course; and (d) its constituent elements, state
action and phenomena triggered by such an undertaking. The research has focused on the
bibliographic study, the analysis of the documents, the elements of discourse analysis, the
conducting of a field investigation and the interview with the application of the questionnaires on
the Population Reinsurance Program ) Make PISF. It is a document that deals with development
policies and strategies for the semi-arid region, based on a literature on development, design and
institutional design. Using the same reference, it is therefore examined or PISF, especially its PRSF.
Its structure, implementation, and discourse are investigated as contradictions and phenomena unchained by this policy, assuming the search for the DS concept and the ME theory as main
theoretical axes.