Políticas de transporte na Amazônia Brasileira: uma análise dos pontos de vista da logística e do desenvolvimento regional sustentável

Abstract

This research deals with the transport policies in the Brazilian Amazon analyzed from the viewpoints of logistics operations and sustainable regional development. Methodologically the research is characterized as exploratory and literature. Exploratory to provide a greater familiarity with the problem, in order to make it more explicit. Literature to make use of various documents. Presents a literature review on logistics, transport and public policy and sustainable regional development, together with the study of public policy in transportation, planned and implemented in the Brazilian Amazon, the early Republican period through the end of Luiz Inácio da Silva's government, presenting an analysis of results. It seeks to identify the environmental analysis in decision making processes involving the transport policy options for the region and the influences of these policies on sustainable regional development and efficiency of logistics operations. Justifies itself by providing new parameters for planning. These parameters, considering the question of exhaustion of natural resources, sustainability, and in particular the balance between the needs of the country and the man who inhabits the Amazon, considering the importance and fragility of their ecosystems. Brings a critical analysis of successes and failures, from the various decisions of public officials over time. Otherwise providing a vision of the choices made by different teams of government, according to the social categories to which they belonged, their origins and party according to their political and ideological formations. The results indicated that only in recent decades has conducted studies of environmental impacts of transport works in the region, the characteristics of the social categories of managers directly influence the decisions and that low investment in research to planning restrictions have created. Identifyed also a constant separation between what was planned and what was actually executed, and reducing the chance of achieving the proposed objectives in the planning. Finally, and very importantly, points to a new possibility of using capillary action of the great rivers that form the Amazon Basin. This allows you options such as capillary transport in the region, with the possibility of lower costs and lower environmental impacts, transforming the matrix of transport in the region a good example of intermodality, constructed with respect to the environment and coupled with a vision of sustainability.