Keywords: Metropolitan regions. Sustainable Development Objectives. Public agenda. Economic dynamics. Regional development
Brazil's metropolitan regions (MR) are levers of economic, regional and urban development, but they also concentrate problems of lack of management and metropolitan agenda. Thus, the municipalities that comprise the MR are responsible for managing the local problems, in an autonomous and disjointed form of the other metropolitan municipalities. Problems related to the lack of public policies that internalize principles of sustainability, resilience and adaptation to climate change, and that address the conditions of risk and vulnerability. In this regard, the world has been discussing how public agendas can mitigate these problems and adapt to climate change as they continue to develop the economy. Therefore, considering the global agenda proposals of United Nations (UN) for public agendas, this research will answer the question about how the adoption of a public agenda in the Metropolitan Regions of the Brazilian Northeast based on SDO 11 (Sustainable Development Objective – 11 – “Sustainable Cities and Communities”), Agenda 2030 and the New Urban Agenda would strengthen regional development by making metropolitan economic dynamics more sustainable, resilient and climate-friendly. The methodology will be based on quantitative research techniques, such as statistical analysis of indexes related to socio-climatic vulnerability, human development and sustainable development, and qualitative techniques for the diagnosis and evaluation of public policies (in the metropolitan context), with a focus in the economic dynamics of the chosen empirical field: the Northeastern MR of Fortaleza, Natal, Recife and Salvador. The overall objective is to assess how the empirical field MR can stimulate regional development by making its economic dynamics compatible with the principles of SDO 11 and UN agendas, based on adaptations of metropolitan labor market dynamics and the economic base. From this, at the end of the research, it is expected that: it will be answered how the metropolitan economic dynamics would influence the regional development if they become more adapted, sustainable and resilient to the climatic changes; and the elaboration, as a research product, of an index for metropolitan regions of Brazil that can measure regional development under principles of sustainability, adaptation and resilience to climate change.