Das formas de apropriação da natureza às vulnerabilidades socioambientais: paradoxos do desenvolvimento em cidades pequenas

Abstract

<p class="normal">This work expresses the theoretical reflections that underpinned the research of scientific initiation entitled “Between lemmas and dilemmas: socio-environmental development and vulnerability in small cities”. The general objective in this manuscript is to contribute to the continuity of the analyzes of small cities, promoting studies about the paradoxes of the discourse of development, observed from the production of the space, according to the critical conception of the appropriation of the nature and the processes of socio-environmental vulnerabilities. The analysis was based on the systemic approach and the understanding of socio-spatial relations in the city. The text has a broad theoretical approach and a review on relevant literature about the topics discussed. As a summary of the reflections presented here, the delay of sustainability policies is a mark of the paradoxical discourse of development in globalized timesand is socially partial in all its political and economic scope. The framework of unfair appropriation of nature as well as the socio-environmental vulnerability in small cities, gives strong indications that it is a model of exclusive socio-spatial production still present in Brazil, consolidated before the process of market urbanization, and especially because of that it requires revision and changes in public policies to effect the improvement of the conditions of life in the city, including the overcoming of social and environmental contradictions that impede the achievement of the ideals of citizenship</p>