Mato Grosso gathers a big part of the surviving native populations in Brazil.
The State of Mato Grosso do Sul created in 1977 is this area more in the west of Brazil that the ground clearers of the end of XIX had been able to reach, at the time of the War of Paraguay.
Campo Grande, 600.000 inhabitants and capital of this State, is the economic center of all the area of the Mid-west. The breeding is one of the essential economic activities.

 

The event promoted integration between organization and individuals that live and follow experiences of local development in different social, economical, political and cultural contexts. It created a international space for a human development reflexion.

In the west of the state, Pantanal, the biggest wetland of the world and one of the biggest reservation of biodiversity of planet is located (600 species of birds, 200 species of fish, tens of species of mammals... etc,), occupies a surface of 140.000 km2, that is to say nearly a third of its territory. The extension of the bovine production which increases the turning into a desert and of big projects of infrastructures put in danger this fragile ecosystem.
UNESCO classified it World Reservation of the Biosphere

Culture and solidarity in local development
Innovation and management endogenous processes in territorial development
Regional/local politics of development and sustainable territorial

The globalization have been changing substantially the human relationship in the planet, presenting a new spectrum of possibilities, challenges and risks. This new situation is caused by the high degree of interdependence between the social relations already involved, from the most punctual organized territorial units, till the most global situations. Only a systemic approach of this complex of interactions can help to understand this narrow interdependency between the different levels of organization in the society.
In this way, the human development depends, more and more, upon the innovation capacity of answers that each collectivity may find in its own life place, in interdependency with other levels of territorial organization.
Thus, independently of the social time lived each society/community needs to investigate its internal capacities of maintenance and life promotion, always accord with its cultural values of well being, considering also the process of social interaction and solidarity, in distinct scales of the territory

The Graduate Program on Local Development of the Dom Bosco University became a permanent open debate academic forum to the society committed with the construction of a new model of human development, under territorial bases, endogenous and sustainable, which respects cultural diversity, values the inter-cultural and promotes local management of the environmental resources, without losing the bounds with the surroundings and other scales of territory.

Interaction between small and intermediate enterprises as a growth and qualification strategy : o Pólo Moveileiro de Votuporanga - San Paulo . Lorenzo Helena Carvalho, Brazil

O objetivo deste artigo é contribuir para o debate sobre as aglomerações produtivas e o desenvolvimento local a partir de uma análise crítica do desenvolvimento do pólo moveleiro do Município de Votuporanga, SP. O foco do estudo está voltado para a avaliação da interação entre as empresas na construção de capacitação local, principalmente quanto a qualificação da mão de obra, e na difusão das inovações. Parte-se da hipótese que o papel das empresas componentes do aglomerado produtivo não é linear, mas que estas podem dinamizar o conjunto do aglomerado bem como as economias locais, através da interação sistêmica entre as empresas e o “ambiente” local.

Cities, environmental safeguard and economic local development Estela Maria Neves

Projetos locais e nacionais de desenvolvimento sustentável incluem necessariamente a defesa e o desfrute sustentável do patrimônio ambiental. A ação governamental em escala local é essencial para o binômio ambiente-desenvolvimento. Grande parte das questões ambientais no Brasil está presente nos demais países latino-americanos, esboçando uma agenda comum de ação aos governos nacionais e subnacionais. O texto aponta mudanças do contexto da ação governamental local nos países latino-americanos e destaca algumas características da ação dos governos locais brasileiros na defesa ambiental.

Industrial ecology, spontaneous popular economy, popular knownledge
and sustainable community.  Léo Dayan, France

L'homme (ou la femme) qui fait les trottoirs ou les décharges et récupère des biens usagés qu'il "retape" pour ses besoins ou revend "au noir" pourra être, de manière rétroactive, socialement honoré. Il se crée un revenu en nature ou en monnaie en dispensant la société et l'Etat de porter attention à ses fins de mois et il contribue modestement à protéger l'environnement.
Resterait à mettre sa fonction au grand jour et de s'en inspirer industriellement, c’est à dire de réduire les flux et les stocks de matière, d’énergie et de déchets qui encombrent la biosphère.
Cependant…. Une telle généralisation demande au préalable d’effectuer l’ étude du métabolisme des substances biophysiques des produits, de déterminer dans une plus grande perspective ce qui peut être fabriqué avec les déchets, de ne produire que les composants dont les déchets sont éco-revalorisables et eco-recyclables de manière étanche.

Toward conservation and development of sustainable community (locally and globally) Paul B.Martin

Lowering human population densities and our unsustainable consumptive processes are necessary for positively ethical applied ecology. In particular we need to target the poor with appropriate resources and socio-political/spiritual support. Sustainable Livelihoods, Holistic Resource Management, Natural Systems Agriculture, and Conservation and Development of Sustainable Community seem to be front-running approaches toward achieving sustainable Local Development in a positively ethical and ecologically-sound manner