Abstract
Abstract There are serious contradictions between the proclaimed economic benefits obtained by localities where the mineral extraction industry historically operates, and the results recorded in research work. Studies have pointed out serious problems and negative consequences from the mineral extraction industry’s questionable form of management and relationship with the local environment. These practices have increased the socioeconomic and environmental vulnerability of the territories, both in local and regional dimensions. Studies about development indicate the existence of a positive relationship between governance and economic growth, and between innovation and economic growth. There are also studies that point out innovative processes as essential to local and regional development because they prioritize the territorial diversity and develop opportunities focused on the profile of each region. However, this discussion is still restricted to the economic and exclusive point of view of the industrial sector, which limits the analysis from the perspective of regional development. To unravel the nature of the still unclear relationship between territorial governance and social innovation and the effects of this relationship in regional development processes in mining territories, this article raises a set of six theoretical propositions, which forms a schematic model for further empirical investigation. The aim is to use this model to search for similarities and peculiarities, and to establish parallel or comparative analysis between diverse and different case studies.
Highlights
Despite the current institutional speech about the importance of mineral extractive activity and the proclaimed local economic benefits to mining territories (DEPARTAMENTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISA MINERAL [DNPM], 2015; INSTITUTO BRASILEIRO DE MINERÇÃO [IBRAM], 2012; CENTRO DE GESTÃO DE ESTUDOS ESTRATÉGICOS [CGEE], 2002), studies results state severe problems arising from its questionable forms of management and relationship
Studies on mining activity territories stress the false notion of wealth and prosperity surging from the idea of capital accumulation and revenue production, strongly in institutional speech about the development of mining territories (CHAUTARD and ZUINDEAU, 2001; LIEFOOGHE, 2005; CHAPAIN and MURIE, 2008; DAVIS, 2009; RASUL and SHARMA, 2014)
It is assumed that a likely trigger for this transformation would be social innovation process interspersed with territorial development dynamics (NUSSBAUMER and MOULAERT, 2004; LEVÉSQUE, 2011; CREVOISIER, 2014)
Summary
Despite the current institutional speech about the importance of mineral extractive activity and the proclaimed local economic benefits to mining territories (DEPARTAMENTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISA MINERAL [DNPM], 2015; INSTITUTO BRASILEIRO DE MINERÇÃO [IBRAM], 2012; CENTRO DE GESTÃO DE ESTUDOS ESTRATÉGICOS [CGEE], 2002), studies results state severe problems arising from its questionable forms of management and relationship. They have increased socioeconomic and environmental vulnerabilities of territories, at local and regional levels (LAMBERT and BOULANGER, 2001; EJDEMO and SODERHOLM, 2011; BECKER and PEREIRA, 2011; BITTENCOURT, 2014; VILLELA and GIUSTI, 2016; BORGES, 2018). It will allow future studies to draw parallels or make comparative analysis, relating the governance and social innovation processes, through case studies of different regional development situations in mining territories (GODOY, 1995; GODOI and BALSINI, 2004; SOY, 1997; EISENNHARDT, 1989; GREENWOOD, 1973; GOODE and HATT, 1973)
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