The Durable Communities Project in Search of Sustainable Territorial Development in Amapá

Abstract

This study addresses the process of sustainable local territorial development in Brazil, which is also part of the actions carried out by the current Amapá State Government, since programs and projects, under the aegis of economic and social development, are from this new perspective of development that is in implantation in the municipalities amapaenses. In this way, it is imperative to understand the Durable Communities Project, its development model that hour is practiced in the networks of institutional and community social relations and its evolution, its process of maturation and creative organization based on the perceptions that derive from the activities developed in the exogenous or endogenous interventions, as a way to solidify and legitimize Sustainable Territorial Local Development - DTRS and the Local Productive Arrangements - APL's. The study shows, however, that the importance of the participatory approach is not simply to replace community and local approaches, but to complement, integrate and strengthen them. As in the other approaches, in DTRS discourse there is often an emphasis on aspects of harmony and cooperation.