SOCIAL RENEWAL AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE CULTURE OF ALGAE: THE PROJECT MULHERES DE CORPO E ALGA

  • Eugênia Vale de Paula Universidade Federal do Ceará
  • Emanuel Dheison dos Santos Penha Universidade Federal do Ceará
  • José Carlos Lázaro da Silva Filho Universidade Federal do Ceará
  • Lígia Carla de Lima Souza Universidade Federal do Ceará
Keywords: Culture of Algae, Sustainable Development, Social Renewal

Abstract

Current paper analyzes the relationship between social renewal and sustainable development. The project Mulheres de Corpo e Alga, dealing with the culture, harvest, processing and sale of products based on compounds extracted from algae in Barrinha de Icapuí, a community on the eastern shore of the state of Ceará, Brazil, was analyzed. The qualitative and descriptive research analyzed data from interviews and processed by the content analysis technique and classified according to the axes of social innovation (CRISES, 2004) and classical dimensions of sustainability. The relationship between social innovation and sustainable development revealed that the project may be characterized as social innovation and a project of sustainable development. Consistency existed between the axes and dimensions in spite of the fact that Territory x Social was not evidenced by the discourse of the interviewed.

Author Biographies

Eugênia Vale de Paula, Universidade Federal do Ceará
Mestranda em Administração e Controladoria pela Universidade Federal do Ceará Graduada em Administração pela Universidade Federal do Ceará
Emanuel Dheison dos Santos Penha, Universidade Federal do Ceará
Mestrando em Administração e Controladoria pela Universidade Federal do Ceará Graduado em Administração pela Universidade Federal do Ceará
José Carlos Lázaro da Silva Filho, Universidade Federal do Ceará
Professor Adjunto do Departamento de Administração da Universidade Federal do Ceará Doutor em Planejamento Ambiental pela Technische Universität-Berlin
Lígia Carla de Lima Souza, Universidade Federal do Ceará
Mestranda em Administração e Controladoria pela Universidade Federal do Ceará Graduada em Administração pela Universidade Federal do Ceará
Published
2015-08-03
Section
Environment