Abstract

BORINELLI, Benilson et al. Institutional (dis)order and territorial planning: Goiás' environmental policy considerations. GOT [online]. 2019, n.16, pp.05-27. ISSN 2182-1267.  https://doi.org/10.17127/got/2019.16.001.

In this qualitative and exploratory-descriptive case study, we analyze the relations between institutional disorder of environmental policy and capitalist territorial planning in Goiás (Brazil). Stressing the State’s role and supported by the contradictory capitalist territory's occupation premise, we try to think about state’s environmental policy as an expression of the order-disorder dialectic. The budgetary decline, the instability and the institutional retraction of environmental policy took place at a moment of significant economic expansion and prolonged centre-right and right front political dominance, less sensitive to environmental demands. As an expression of historical forces relations, environmental policy, although marginal and erratic, gains political-institutional relevance by enabling and legitimizing the natural resources’ appropriation and the externalization of socio-environmental impacts and costs according to particulars forms of capitalist’s territorial planning.

Keywords : Institutional disorder; Territorial planning; Environmental policy; State; State of Goiás.

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