Regional Social-environmental Ethics as an approach to Regional Development

Abstract

The development concepts fail to correlate the social issues and overall, the ecological issues with a long-term country project. The ethical political reflection around development patterns is therefore a decisive reflection. The aim is to dialogue about regional development from the standpoint of categories of socio-environmental ethics. It is exploratory research which is supported empirically in documental analysis of two cases of the regionalization process of the state of Santa Catarina (Brazil). It concludes that recognizing legitimate moral limits to the use of landscapes and living beings would be an important step in development planning, which requires a territorial reading. This is ignored by exclusively technical discourses and ecological common sense.

Proposed mapping and evaluation model of sustainable development goals in graduate programs in environmental sciences in Brazil

“…The term “development” can be understood pedagogically as “good living in the land,” in which it is assumed to promote people’s quality of life (Alcântara and Sampaio, 2019). From the perspective of sustainability, it is conceived from three macro-dimensions of ecology, societal and economic that ecosocioeconomy is a necessary systemic and synergistically interconnected approach that suggests future generations will have the same right to quality of life as the current one, and that nature is understood as a subject of right (Florit et al , 2019).…”