Governança no desenvolvimento sustentável na Amazônia: arquiteturas institucionais e cadeias de sociobiodiversidade

Abstract

This essay discusses governance in public policies for sustainable development in the Brazilian Amazon, with a focus on socio-biodiversity chains. The concept of institutional architecture is used to describe a framework of incentives (public and private) capable of promoting effectively profitable initiatives, with social and environmentally appropriate impact in the rural and forest context. The theory of transaction costs helps to understand how the State participates in these architectures, reducing risks and promoting coordinated investments in specific assets, offering a vision of the future, and mediating conflicts throughout the process of public policy implementation. The concept of governance is used within an expanded perspective, with complexity in the context in which cooperation between stakeholders occurs to produce local incentives that result in social and environmental development. The case of the Amazon illustrated with these architectures can be developed through a complex fabric of relationships that enhances private economic gains and values the standing forest.