This article aims to discuss sustainable territorial development from the performance of different actors from the perspective of corporate management and the process of deliberative citizenship. Analyzes the construction of the "Programa de Manejo Agroambiental da Bacia do Rio Almada" in the region belonging to the citizenship's territory of South Bahia Coast. Organized the data, information and interviews through case study. To build the case, we used triangulation techniques of oral history and sensemaking. The case in question contributes to the discussion of the challenges and opportunities related to social management, indicating that the process of deliberative citizenship may be a necessary strategy for sustainable territorial development. Thus, it is clear that dialogue, stakeholder participation in the development and implementation of public policies is a complex, but essential, when it aims transformations of social realities.
social management; deliberative citizenship; sustainable territorial development; citizenship territories
