Public development plan based on coproduction and slow principles: an analytical scheme by action research

Magnus Luiz Emmendoerfer,Mary Sandra Guerra Ashton,Brendow De Oliveira Fraga

doi:10.1590/2175-3369.013.e20210020

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Abstract This study aims to investigate and reflect on the evidence of a development plan based on the coproduction the population and the government of a small municipality, based on the principles of the Slow City Movement (SCM). A descriptive exploratory research was conducted with a qualitative approach. The main guiding strategy of the research, consisted of the action research method carried out in the municipality of Rio Doce, in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The results show that the space for dialogue between the population and the government was relevant and allowed the coproduction of a municipal planning with micro and macro elements and within the slow city principles. Also, traditional practices linked to culture with the use of local environmental resources were included, involving popular knowledge, technologies of social origin and the knowledge of the daily life of the community in a project of future desired by the population.

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Due to the complexity and multidimensionality of contemporary public problems, the State finds limitations in the supply of public goods and services that are able to meet the desires of the various social groups that inhabit a locality
The main guiding strategy of the research consisted of an Action Research (AR) carried out in the city of Rio Doce, that developed public planning in co-production with the local population to legitimize itself as the first Brazilian Slow Small City (Emmendoerfer et al, 2020)
Much of the data obtained refers to specific elements and episodic situations, since the structure of the meetings was conducive to the free dialogue and speech for the citizens involved

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Due to the complexity and multidimensionality of contemporary public problems, the State finds limitations in the supply of public goods and services that are able to meet the desires of the various social groups that inhabit a locality This limitation leads to the need for the various sectors of the society to seek alternatives based on community involvement in issues of collective interest, in order to provide better conditions for life in society and greater effectiveness in accessing public goods and services (Emmendoerfer et al, 2020). The practice of planning in the public sphere, in its hegemonic conception, there are nuances, is essentially technical, monological and part of the premise that the variables that make up the context of the planned action can be predicted and fully controlled (Forester, 2018; Matus, 1993) The replication of this logic in the context of public planning in the municipalities may cause limitations when based exclusively on the view of representatives of public power

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