Os conselhos de meio ambiente e desenvolvimento da região da APA de Guaraqueçaba: relações, sobreposições e perspectivas futuras

Abstract

The project aimed to analyze the results of the research about councils in the region of the
Guaraqueçaba Environmental Protection Area (APA). This study was conducted as a diagnosis of the skills
of “environment” and “development” councils operating in the municipalities where the Guaraqueçaba
Federal APA is located, in northern Paraná. 16 interviews were conducted with managers and executivesecretaries of these councils and accessed 22 legal documents for translation of themes / general skills of these
official forums. There were found 21 general themes, divided into three different areas: Articulation, Planning
and Action. Analyzing the different subjects developed by these councils and the several overlaps between
them, notices that forms of interaction and dialogue are necessary to optimize everyone’s work. Despite this
potential, when presenting these results for different stakeholders, including managers of these official public
forum, it is noticed financial and logistical difficulties in performing council meetings, different institutional
ideals about what a effective council should be, and the constant exchange of municipal management, that
are examples of factors that discourage the idea of the region as a territory to be managed. It discusses
with this results that when many public policies affect the same territory, convergence and possibility of
integration between them are subject to a higher or lower capacity of the managers of these tools and
administrative structures, in all levels of government and also by society. Therefore, from this understanding,
it is up to individual managers and every member of society to work in partnership to create resources and
opportunities for public policies turn into instruments of reality change. It is always necessary to consider the
pursuit of improving their instruments in favor of a development that takes into consideration their different
components: environmental, social, political, cultural, economic and spatial.