Análise de custo-benefício e precificação da natureza: linhas de ação da liberalização no desenvolvimento sustentável

Abstract

Cost-benefit analysis (CBA), broadly used in the evaluation of public policy and projects, is critically assed in relation to its role in achieving sustainable development when is recognized that the pricing of nature, ocurring in the ecology-economy interface, is a step prior to normative prescription, involving trade-offs and compensations, having na underlying principle in Kaldor-Hicks criterion. Its incompatibility with inclusive development and sustainability, as well as CBA, consisting in its operationalization, being a mean of neoliberal action in the alieation of the national State decisionmaking capabilities, is demonstrated. Alternative methods, adopting sustanability inclusion and absence of compensation as premises, are proposed, with multi-criteria methods, especially participatory ones that include strategic environmental assessment, emerging as the most appropriate potential approaches.