Avaliando propositivamente a experiência do CONSAD do extremo oeste catarinense como um modelo de gestão do desenvolvimento territorial

Abstract

This dissertation reflects on the governance of territorial development proposed for the Consortium for Food Security and Local Development - CONSAD, therefore, the objective of this research is to understand the direction taken by CONSAD the west end of Santa Catarina, from the CONSAD assumption of management as a model of territorial development, a dual approach practical-institutional learning (relative to the object of evaluation) and social (relative to the size-dialogical civic) and development of the territory. In the methodological field research is directed toward a proposed evaluation, justified this choice by the desire to do applied research, with a strong bias propositional, more suited to the position of the researcher and the links with the object of study with their own demand and history CONSAD concerned. In this sense the contribution the dissertation proposes to create an array of interpretive limits, possibilities and action guidelines for the management model CONSAD in promoting regional development in the far west of Santa Catarina, as well as draw attention to the challenges that may arise in this journey and suggest some recommendations aligned to the understanding of spatial development adopted in this work and the characteristics of the territory.