Trajetória do Desenvolvimento: Da ênfase no crescimento econômico às expectativas do desenvolvimento sustentável

Abstract

This survey deals with some theoretical aspects of economic development as well as its methodology of measurement concerning the prevailing model, and also some alternative approaches combined with a deductive and qualitative analysis centered on the data colleted in the field of applied economy, in order to discover the meaning of the phenomenon rather than to raise quantitative data or to demonstrate their frequencies. On the other side, the analysis comprises, in itis general aspects, the main aprrroaches of the social and economic development, including the environmental context and its determing factors. Over and obove that, it breaks down into the post-theoretical environmentalism. The research identifies the main citeria and feasible devices to measure the social, economic and environmental develoment. As a result, the analysis concludes that the insustainability of development has been stimulated by the search of meaningful apports concerned with the social and environmental extent of development, in spite of the lack of consensus referring to the concept of development and ists best methodology to measure it.