%0 Journal Article
%T A socio-environmental development programme in action in Brazilian Amazonia
%A Vasconcellos
%A Ana Maria de Albuquerque
%A Vasconcellos Sobrinho
%A M¨¢rio
%J BAR. Brazilian Administration Review
%D 2012
%I ANPAD - Associa??o Nacional de P¨®s-Gradua??o e Pesquisa em Administra??o
%R 10.1590/S1807-76922012000100003
%X this paper deals with the process of scaling up and scaling down grassroots demands through a state-sponsored socio-environmental development programme in brazilian amazonia called proambiente (pro-environment). the paper attempts to understand the links between the three different levels of the programme actions: the macro (federal government), intermediate (ngos), and local (community) levels. the central paper¡¯s issue is to understand how a state-sponsored socio-environmental development programme interacts with and impacts local communities. the theoretical paper¡¯s framework involves the approaches of participatory development and governance. the methodology is based on three levels of qualitative analysis (macro-, intermediary- and local-level). the paper (a) describes the trajectory of the proambiente and the process of scaling up communities¡¯ demands; (b) reveals contradictions within the proambiente implementation; and (c) debates the impacts of the programme actions at local level. the paper reveals that once the state encompasses local people¡¯s demands and creates a development programme, the development model absorbs multi-actor interests that change local people¡¯s proposals. it also shows that the challenge facing a socio-environmental development programme like the proambiente is to find a balance between production and conservation aims.
%K governance
%K development programme
%K amazonia
%K proambiente.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1807-76922012000100003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en