Gestão pública e desenvolvimento urbano sustentável: uma análise da aderência da agenda 2030 no plano de metas do município de Barueri/SP

Abstract

The accelerated urbanization process intensified the environmental issues that have been affecting the whole society, mainly densely populated regions which demand challenges from the local public managers, due to basic infrastructure, and essential services provision. In this perspective, it is indispensable a sustainable and inclusive urban plan, for contributing with the social and environmental changing of the cities which allow the compliance with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) provided by the 2030 Agenda, proposed by the UN. Facing the current situation, the aim of this research is analyzing how the specific 2030 Agenda SDG is being contemplated by the Target Plan, drawn up by Barueri Sustainable City Committee, from Barueri City, São Paulo. This research is qualified as qualitative, with an exploratory descriptive aim, in which data collection procedure was a literature review and a documentary research. All the data was collected through a study case and a semi-structured interview. The results indicate that, from the 134 selected goals by the 2030 Agenda, which can be applied at the municipal level, Barueri city managed to contemplate the 69 more specific goals, what means about 51.49% of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), contemplated by the municipal document. In addition it is noted that the usage of the Sustainable City Program management tools enabled the implementation of the 2030 Agenda in the city, fostering the urban sustainable development. The participation of the Organized Civil Society in discussions about the environment and the empowerment of these agents’ relationship with the local public authorities are also emphasized. As from the results found in this research it is understood that Barueri city/ SP shows good conditions to consolidate the SDGs by 2030, what suggests that the city has a good and assertive perspective to a sustainable urban development. It is highlighted the importance of a bigger awareness among all the municipal agents, as shown by the interviewers, once the 2030 Agenda points out the importance of the partnership to implement the SDGs, emphasizing that all the stakeholders have their role to accomplish in the face of the sustainable development.