Teoria dos campos e políticas ambientais locais

Many research studies point out the positive aspects of the management councils and defend that, once consolidated, they tend to enlarge the range of action of local environmental policies. This article re--evaluates this vision and for that it uses the approach of the theory of the field by Bourdieu (1999) and Fligstein (2001), and aims to discuss the interest of groups in continuing dispute within the Council of Environment Maringá (COMDEMA) and its results on the agenda for discussion and action by environment policies. For this, the literature on the subject was reviewed, the council minutes from 1993 to 2006 were analyzed, and interviews with key actors were done. The main results are that the theory of fields showed strategies drawn from groups that aim to reach specific interests. In some moments they would associate with each other, and in others they would create confrontation. Overall, this game between different groups within the environmental field filtered what is considered “principal” environment and made the view that should comply with the law prevail, leaving aside the discussion of advance planning development with environmental sustainability.