Análisis del desarrollo sostenible del territorio en Vale dos Vinhedos, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil, en la década de 2000

Abstract

With a focus on the territories and their development, and in face of the expansion of New Vitiviniculture World, territories such as the “Vale dos Vinhedos”, located in the southern region of Brazil, have increasingly awakened the interest of entrepreneurs and researchers, serving as a ”model” of human development and progress of wine-related activities. Seeking to understand part of the complexity of the process of territorial development of the “Vale dos Vinhedos” this article proposes to portray the process of development of the municipalities that are encompassed by this territory, at the years 2000 and 2010, by means of the Sustainable Development Index (IDS) - developed by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA). The observed data showed that, in general, the indices of sustainable development of each municipality, as well as the aggregate index of the “Vale dos Vinhedos”, do not undergo significant transformations from the year 2000 to the year 2010, nor do they express satisfactory development results for the four dimensions analysed. These aspects can be explained by conflicts that are consolidated around the productive and traditional practices and other factores related to the dynamics of the territory.