Bem viver e desenvolvimento sustentável : paradigmas e alternativas ao desenvolvimento

Abstract

Over time, the idea of wealth and progress has been changing, now less incisively as changes in the meaning of concepts in the past, more directly adding prefixes and suffixes to the concept and inducing misinterpretations. With a view to breaking with Westernized development models and promoting alternative forms of organization in society that prioritize empiricism and local aspects, Good Living (BV) emerges as an alternative to development and can be understood as a new “world view” and “development paradigm”. Theoretical discussions also point to a need for a change of posture in relation to Development. That said, the postdevelopmentalist perspective emerges to meet this need, to think about alternatives for the collective organization of life in society. In this sense, the study aimed to present alternatives to development, as well as the main socioeconomic indicators used for the evaluation of sustainable progress, answering the question: What is the importance of alternatives to Development and integration of multidimensional qualitative indicators for the evaluation of Sustainable Development? To this end, bibliographical research with a qualitative approach of an exploratory nature was used. The main results of the research are that the BV, sustained in a post-developmentalist perspective, goes against the concepts and ideals of sustainability, equality, democracy, equity and autonomy of communities and localities and is necessary as a tool for evaluating the progress.