Regional Social-environmental Ethics as an approach to Regional Development

Ética socioambiental como enfoque del desarrollo regional

Abstract

The development concepts fail to correlate the social issues and overall, the ecological issues with a long-term country project. The ethical political reflection around development patterns is therefore a decisive reflection. The aim is to dialogue about regional development from the standpoint of categories of socio-environmental ethics. It is exploratory research which is supported empirically in documental analysis of two cases of the regionalization process of the state of Santa Catarina (Brazil). It concludes that recognizing legitimate moral limits to the use of landscapes and living beings would be an important step in development planning, which requires a territorial reading. This is ignored by exclusively technical discourses and ecological common sense.

Keywords:
Regional development; Socio environmental ethics; Human and non-human living beings; Santa Catarina; Territory