Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2016-07-11T17:48:44Z No. of bitstreams: 1 PedroAugustoFilgueiraAlbuquerque_DISSERT.pdf: 1985102 bytes, checksum: bc61bd8f1b67eac3054bd5562ab5f2d6 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-07-18T21:13:54Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 PedroAugustoFilgueiraAlbuquerque_DISSERT.pdf: 1985102 bytes, checksum: bc61bd8f1b67eac3054bd5562ab5f2d6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-18T21:13:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PedroAugustoFilgueiraAlbuquerque_DISSERT.pdf: 1985102 bytes, checksum: bc61bd8f1b67eac3054bd5562ab5f2d6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-10 / Atualmente o crescimento acelerado dos centros urbanos, o ac?mulo de demandas socioambientais, a rela??o entre pol?ticas p?blicas e resolu??o de problemas cada vez mais complexos acentua a sensa??o de que as cidades passam por uma crise urbana. Esta crise tem como principal caracter?stica sua multidimensionalidade, passa por quest?es econ?micas, culturais, ?ticas, ambientais e, sobretudo, pol?tica. No intuito de estudar em profundidade esta crise que se manifesta pelo processo de urbaniza??o e tem nas metr?poles sua exacerba??o, foi realizado estudo te?rico conceitual acerca do sentido de desenvolvimento sustent?vel aplicado ? realidade das cidades, extraindo desse debate os conceitos: desenvolvimento territorial sustent?vel, sustentabilidade administrativa e sustentabilidade pol?tica. A fim de testar a aplicabilidade pr?tica destes conceitos te?ricos, estudou-se em profundidade a realidade da gest?o dos res?duos s?lidos urbanos na metr?pole de Natal. De acordo com o recente debate te?rico, os res?duos compreendem um setor da crise ambiental urbana que melhor representa a rela??o entre homem e meio ambiente. Garantindo a multidimensionalidade das quest?es ambientais por meio do Saber Ambiental, foi feito um estudo qualitativo em profundidade, correlacionando os conceitos de desenvolvimento territorial sustent?vel, governan?a metropolitana e Saber Ambiental aplicado aos res?duos s?lidos. Os resultados apontam para os reais desafios das administra??es p?blicas municipais em compreender, agir e mudar a in?rcia na qual v?m operando nas ?ltimas d?cadas. Os resultados tamb?m demonstraram a import?ncia de transformar as quest?es ambientais, em desafios pol?ticos, ou seja, embate por ideias, refer?ncias ideol?gicas e ?ticas. / Nowadays the rapid growth of urban centers, the accumulation of social and environmental demands, the relationship between public policy and increasingly complex problems accentuates the feeling that cities undergo an urban crisis. This crisis is especially characterized by its multidimensionality, which goes through economic, cultural, ethical, environmental and, above all, political issues. In order to study the core of this crisis that is manifested by the urbanization process and has in its exacerbation on the metropolitan areas was conducted conceptual and theoretical study of the meaning of sustainable development applied to the everyday reality of cities, extracting from this debate concepts, such as: sustainable territorial development, administrative sustainability and political sustainability. Looking forward to test this the practical applicability of these theoretical concepts studied, an empirical study was done on the reality of metropolitan solid waste in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil. According to the recent theoretical debate, the waste comprises a sector of the urban environmental crisis that best represents the relationship between man and environment. Ensuring the multidimensionality of environmental issues through the ?Saber Ambietal? (LEFF, 2005), was made a extensive qualitative study correlating the concepts of sustainable territorial development, metropolitan governance and ?Saber Ambiental? applied on solid waste. The results point to the real challenges of municipal government in understanding the real situation, take action and change the inertia in which have operated in recent decades. The results also showed the importance of transforming environmental issues in political, in other words, struggle for ideas, ideological and ethical references.