Banca de DEFESA: ANA CELECINA LUCENA DA COSTA RANGEL

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STUDENT : ANA CELECINA LUCENA DA COSTA RANGEL
DATE: 31/07/2023
TIME: 08:00
LOCAL: Web conferência pelo link https://meet.google.com/yfz-jzmo-nfn
TITLE:

CONSTRAINTS OF THE PARTICIPATION AND INFLUENCE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE MUNICIPAL COUNCILS OF NATAL/RN IN THE REGULATION PROCESS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ZONE 9 (ZPA-9)

KEY WORDS:

Environmental protection zone; Institutionalized space; Social participation; Deliberative effectiveness.

PAGES: 305
BIG AREA: Outra
AREA: Ciências Ambientais
SUMMARY:

The Environmental Protection Zone 9 (ZPA-9) was established in the municipality of Natal, capital of the State of Rio Grande do Norte, along with nine other special areas aimed at the protection of environmental peculiarities, reconciled with the uses and occupations of each region. The definition of the aspects related to the zoning of that Environmental Protection Zone occurred through participatory and deliberative processes of regulation within the scope of the management councils of public policies of Natal, and counted on the performance of several segments of civil and governmental society. In this context, with the conclusion of the administrative process of the regulation of ZPA-9 in 2019 and the forwarding of its bill to the City Council of Natal in April 2022, the public policy councils that acted in that process fulfilled, in theory, the role for which they were created. Given this, the research in question aims to analyze the quality of the deliberative process and the influence of social participation via public policy management councils in the regulation of Environmental Protection Zone 9, in the municipality of Natal / RN, between the years 2014 and 2019. Methodologically, the present investigation is an empirical study, with deductive, exploratory and qualitative-quantitative approaches. The first three chapters of the thesis addressed the urban changes in the Northern Administrative Region of Natal, in a historical perspective, as well as from the establishment of the ZPA-9 until the completion of the process of its administrative process of regulation, in 2019. As the main result of these chapters, it should be noted that the political-administrative guidelines of territorial organization and planning, including in a recent period, when the ZPA-9 regulation was finalized in 2019, were conditioned to the interests of hegemonic agents (political and economic), disregarding the natural and ecosystemic aspects of the region. Chapter 3 indicated that civil society had little influence on the zoning definitions of Environmental Protection Zone 9, an aspect ratified in the following chapters. Chapters 4 and 5, in turn, investigated the institutionalization of participation (FARIA; RIBEIRO, 2010; 2011) and the deliberative effectiveness (CUNHA, 2009) in the public policy management councils that acted in the regulation process of the Environmental Protection Zone 9, in the municipality of Natal/RN, respectively. Regarding chapter 4, it was found that the Municipal Councils of Natal were classified with a high degree of institutionalization. However, the levels of democratization and representation were considered to be of medium degree, affecting the effectiveness of those institutional spaces of social participation. The fifth chapter revealed the little influence of civil society in the definitions and decisions on regulation, and subsequently, the little deliberative effectiveness of the councils, particularly CONCIDADE. This council was limited to exercising a purely advisory function in the process of regulating the Environmental Protection Zone 9. The perception of civil society representatives about the ZPA-9 regulation process is the last stage of the research. The formal semi-structured individual interview was the data collection instrument. In addition to the socioeconomic profile and the participatory process, the interview addressed issues related to the institutional design of the Councils, the ZPA-9 and its protection, and the participatory profile. Among the results of the sixth chapter of the thesis, it was verified the prevalence of the governmental segment and its speeches and manifestations in the deliberations, especially by the absence of real parity in the composition of the councils, lower vocalization capacity, reduction of the possibilities of inclusion of matters on the agenda and incongruity in the representation of the counselors of the civil society segment,  as well as by the imbalance of information and knowledge about the institutionalization of the participation of the councils and about the peculiarities of the Environmental Protection Zone 9.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - EDVÂNIA TORRES AGUIAR GOMES - UFPE
Externo à Instituição - FRANKLIN ROBERTO DA COSTA - UERN
Externa ao Programa - 2190974 - JOANA DARC FREIRE DE MEDEIROS - nullInterna - 1298966 - RAQUEL FRANCO DE SOUZA
Externo ao Programa - 1249023 - SEBASTIAO MILTON PINHEIRO DA SILVA - null