Economia ecológica e políticas públicas: um olhar sobre o Cerrado brasileiro

Abstract

The main objectiveof this paper is to present a study about the recent public environmental policies (era Lula, between 2003 and 2010) specific to the Brazilian biome Cerrado. In this presentation, it is evaluated the extent to which policies approach or distance themselves from the Ecological Economy. To achieve this goal, the paper is based on its first chapters on Ecological Economics and on public policies elaborated based on a review of the literature of the theme. Ecological Economics is a transdisciplinary approach, due to its analytical view that the economic system is an ecosystem subsystem, guided by the triad of objectives: scale, equitable distribution and allocative efficiency. This approach was institutionalized in 1988, through the creation of ISEE, and was inserted in the matrix of Brazilian public environmental policies in an advanced phase of the environmental debate. The matrix began its institutional milestones between the 1930s and 1960s, but it had its formation between the 1970s and 1980s, followed by its consolidation between the 1990s and 2000s and its weakening in the decade of 2010. Thus, according to the analysis of the objectives of the EE triad and the principles of the Latin American Consensus of the ISEE meeting in Washington, the Cerrado, which is a historically lacking public hotspot, contemplates some of these objectives and principles with insufficient and absence of others such as technological innovations, low carbon agriculture and sustainable cities.