Participatory methodology for construction of a basket of territorial goods and services

Abstract

This article used participatory methodological procedures for the inventory and qualification of specific territorial resources in a pilot study in the municipality of Paulo Lopes in order to support the construction of a Basket of Territorial Goods and Services (CBST). The CBST identifies resources and assets that can constitute a composite and synergistic offer of territorial products and services based on collective action and constitutes a strategy for social and environmental innovation. The methodological steps were: i) participatory inventory of territorial resources; ii) characterization of inventoried resources; iii) diagnosis of the degrees of appreciation and activation of resources. The study was carried out based on a pilot project in the municipality of Paulo Lopes, located on the central south coast of Santa Catarina, which has 60% of the territory within the Serra do Tabuleiro State Park, the largest Conservation Unit in the State, and houses initiatives established and recognized agroecological family agricultural production but faces exodus, especially of young people, due to the attractiveness of the surrounding urban areas. The result was the definition of three tools that can be adapted to different Brazilian socioeconomic conditions capable of identifying territorial resources capable of adding value and that can form a community-based tourist offer as a form of non-agricultural work and which is based on organization for collective action that gives space to women, young people and ethnic groups with the potential to boost peripheral economies and generate employment opportunities and income of territorial quality.