O comportamento dos policy-makers na implantação de políticas públicas de educação ambiental : o estudo dos programas

Abstract

Public policies for environmental education were developed from the mid-twentieth century and, with them, defense concepts and knowledge of the environment had come. The city of Rio Grande/RS has experienced a series of interventions to promote development, such as construction of a naval pole, oil refinery, among others, whose context involves conflicts and environmental policy issues. In this scenario, the city created the award-winning environmental education program - "Quero-Quero" – and after ten years of its existence, it was replaced for "Escolas Sustentáveis", a federal program. In this sense, this research is affiliated to public policy analysis studies and it had as objective to find out the reasons of policy-makers to extinguish "Quero-Quero" and to adopt “Escolas Sustentáveis". It is worked with the hypothesis that the actions taken by policy-makers were motivated in order to go beyond the search for efficiency and effectiveness of this public policy, shaping strategies involving interests and social control to these policy-makers. This theoretical constructions allowed to trace the general objective of analyzing the forms of action of the policy-makers in programs "Quero-Quero" and "Escolas Sustentáveis"; and the specific objectives: to identify the policy-makers involved in programs "Quero-Quero" and "Escolas Sustentáveis"; to check the action strategies of policy-makers in programs "Quero-Quero" and "Escolas Sustentáveis"; and to demonstrate how the actions of these policy-makers conform or modify "Quero-Quero" and "Escolas Sustentáveis". Therefore, it is characterized by a study focusing on social actors, conducted through qualitative methodology, based on the model of Policy Networks, and applying techniques through documental research and application of interviews script for subsequent content analysis. The results point to actions that promote efficiency and effectiveness of this public policy, however it also involves symbolic political-partisan interests and conformations.