Technique for the Analysis of Social Participation in Councils: Operationalizing Concepts

Dilascio, Karla Sessin; Rossi, Charles Borges; Sinisgalli, Paulo Antônio de Almeida

doi:10.1590/1982-7849rac2022210258.en

Karla Sessin Dilascio ^** Corresponding Author

conceptualization

data curation

formal analysis

investigation

methodology

project administration

validation

writing - original draft

writing - review & editing

Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Energia e Ambiente, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência Ambiental, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3799-0568

Charles Borges Rossi

formal analysis

methodology

supervision

validation

writing - review & editing

Universidade Federal do Acre, Cruzeiro do Sul, AC, Brazil.

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6811-0116

Paulo Antônio de Almeida Sinisgalli

formal analysis

funding acquisition

investigation

methodology

project administration

resources

supervision

validation

writing - review & editing

Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7822-3499

* Corresponding Author

Editor-in-chief:

Marcelo de Souza Bispo (Universidade Federal da Paraíba, PPGA, Brazil)

Associate Editor:

Gustavo da Silva Motta (Universidade Federal Fluminense, PPGA, Brazil)

Reviewers:

Virgílio Cézar da Silva e Oliveira (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, FACC, Brazil)

Magnus Luiz Emmendoerfer (Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil)

Authorship

Karla Sessin Dilascio*

Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Energia e Ambiente, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência Ambiental

Av. Professor Luciano Gualberto, n. 1289, Butantã, 05508-010, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

E-mail: karla.dilascio@usp.br

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3799-0568

Charles Borges Rossi

Universidade Federal do Acre

Rua Estrada da Canela Fina, KM 12 Gleba Formoso, São Francisco, 69895-000, Cruzeiro do Sul, AC, Brazil

E-mail: charles.rossi@ufac.br

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6811-0116

Paulo Antônio de Almeida Sinisgalli

Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades

Av. Professor Luciano Gualberto, n. 1289, Butantã, 05508-010, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

E-mail: psinisgalli@usp.br

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7822-3499

Conflict of Interests

The authors have stated that there is no conflict of interest.

Concepts	Type of data	Analyzed data	Created variables
Participation	Metadata	1) Date of the meetings	Frequency of the regular meetings per year
		2) Frequency of the meetings
		3) Type of meeting (regular or special)
		4) Location of the meetings	Meeting rotation
		5) Number of people present	Diversity of social actors
		6) Number of council representatives present at the meeting
		7) Number of institutes represented
		8) Diversity of institutes represented
		9) Number of people from the communities	Presence of the communities at the meetings
		10) Number of community representatives from the DMC	Presence of the communities at the meetings
		11) Presence of families from Marujá at the meeting	Representation of Marujá social participation
Empowerment	Quali-quantitative	1) Diversity of subjects on the agenda	Empowerment of the social actors who make up the DMC
		2) Inclusion of new agendas in the meeting by representatives not from PEIC management
		3) Number of issues raised by social actors
		4) Diversity of issues raised by community members
		5) Moments in which the Caiçara communities were mentioned
		6) Moments in which the Caiçara communities gave their opinions	Empowerment of the communities
		7) Diversity of issues raised by each community
		8) Diversity of issues raised by community families
		9) Formation of commissions in the DMC	Empowered governance
		10) Diversity of issues raised by social actors	Empowered governance
Deliberations	Quali-quantitative	1) Number of deliberations at each meeting	Norms and agreements made during the meeting
		2) Number of agreements and norms (formal and informal) defined at the meeting
		3) Presence of the PEIC director at the meetings
		4) Deliberation by community	Deliberations on construction and renovations for the Marujá community

a) Frequency of regular meetings
Code	Year	Type of meeting	Regular	Special
1	1998	R	1	0
2	1998	R	1	0
b) Rotation of meetings
Code/minutes	Year	Location	PEIC	Marujá	Enseada	Itacuruçá	Camburiu	Foles	Pontal
12	1999	Park	1	0	0	0	0	0
13	1999	Itacuruçá	0	0	0	1	0	0
c) Diversity of social actors
Code	Year	DMC Representative	Non-DMC present	Association	Local gov.	Environmental body	Church	NGO	Indigenous	Others
12	1999	SOS, Fisheries Institute, Gaia, City Hall	Nupaub/USP, Unesp Rio Claro intern	0	1	0	0	3	0	0
13	1999	SOS, Fisheries Institute, Gaia, City Hall	Caio, Milton and city council member	0	1	0	0	3	0	0
d) Community presence at meetings
Code	Year	DMC Representative	Non-DMC present	PEIC	Enseada	Iacuruçá	Camburiu	Foles	Pontal	Marujá
12	1999	SOS, Fisheries Institute, Gaia, City Hall	Nupaub/USP, Unesp Rio Claro intern	1	0	(1)	0	0	0	(1)
13	199	SOS, Fisheries Institute, GAIA, City Hall	Caio, Milton, and city council member	0	0	(1)	0	0	(1)	(2)
e) Representation of social participation from Marujá
Code/ minutes	Year	DMC Representative	Resident	Family 1	F2	F3	F4	F5	F6	F7
7	1998	Oliveira (1)	Iza (3), Celestino (6)	1	0	1	0	0	1	0
10	1998	Oliveira (1)	Celestino (6)	1	0	0	0	0	1	0

Concept	Variable	Data not analyzed	Observation
Empowerment	Social actors who make up the DMC	1) Diversity of subjects on the agenda	There was a limitation on the number of subjects inserted by the PEIC director on the agenda, considering the cost of time and human resources for each subject. Because of this, the quantity of initial subjects did not vary much and was not considered an important datum.
		2) Inclusion of new agendas in the meeting by representatives not from PEIC management	Missing aggregate information on the name and/or the institution responsible for the new agenda.
		4) Diversity of issues raised by community members	The composition of the minutes did not favor the identification of all the social actors present at the meetings, only those who were elected council representatives. In addition, off-topic interventions were not systematized.
	Communities	7) Diversity of issues raised by each community	Larger number of issues raised by representatives from Marujá.
	Communities	8) Diversity of issues raised by community families	Larger number of issues raised by representatives from Marujá, with higher frequency of one single family’s participation.
	EG	9) Formation of commissions in the DMC	From the minutes, only lists of the commissions formed were possible, but there was no systematic process of organizing the minutes for these commissions, nor was it clear in the DMC minutes which were the deliberations that emerged from these commissions. Consequently, this data were not included in the analysis.
	EG	10) Diversity of issues raised by social actors	The qualitative analysis of the agendas of each minute made it possible to extract a new variable from the metadata of the diversity of subjects brought to the discussion by different social actors.
Deliberations	Norms and agreements created during the meeting	1) Number of deliberations at each meeting	A low number, compared to the number of meetings, but not unimportant. The deliberations were the result of intense discussions and arguments that often lasted for a considerable number of meetings, especially those that touched on interests that were precious to the local communities and elites. Some took more than seven years to end.
Deliberations	Norms and agreements created during the meeting	3) Presence of the PEIC director at meetings	Obligatory and constant, therefore not relevant as a variable.

Concept	Empowerment of social actors who make up the DMC
Concept	Variable	Code	Agenda
Empowerment	a. Diversity of discussed subjects	1	1. Importance of PEIC resident communities in the Management Plan, 2. Function and action of the Management Committee on PEIC norms, 3. Discussion of the composition of the Management Committee (institutions, members, and alternates).
	b. Number of issues raised by social actors	3	Association of each social actor to the agenda code for each meeting minutes, such as: Church (5, 6, 3, 15, 16), Communities (3), F. Inst. (3), DPRN (3, 10, 15, 16), Gaia (7), Marujá (7, 12, 10), Ocimar (7, 14, 16), Itacuruçá (14).
	c. Number of times that each community is mentioned in the meetings	3	1. Organization of the minutes, 2. PED, 3. Sust. Fisheries, 4. Water supply for the communities, 5. Issue of hunting with dogs, 6. Marujá community campground, 7. Water supply for Marujá, 8. Amomar, 9. Waste collection, 10. Confection of fish traps, 11. Authorization for planting, 12. Wood for canoes, 13. EcoWatt, 14. Renovations and constructions (there was no special meeting), 15. Deliberations of renovations and constructions.
	d. Moments when Caiçara communities expressed their opinions	6	1. Organization of the minutes, 2. PED, 3. Sust. Fisheries, 4. Water supply for the communities, 5. Issue of hunting with dogs, 6. Marujá community campground.
Deliberations	e. Marujá community	6	1. Seasonal rentals in Marujá, 2. Resident registry, 3. Pró-Lagamar Project, 4. Indigenous issues, 5. Water in Camburiu, 6. Sale of houses in Marujá.

Concept	Variables
Concept	a. Diversity of subjects discussed
Empowerment of the actors who make up the DMC	Code	1. Communities			2. Administration			3. Environment			4. Indigenous people	5. Tourism
	Code	Basic	Houses	Traditional	Org.	Infra.	Partnership	Org.	Exotic species	NR	4. Indigenous people	Capacitation	Org.	Summer operation
	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	b. Number of times that each community is mentioned in the meetings
	Code	Communities	Marujá		Itacuruçá		Enseada		Pontal		Camburiu		Foles
	3	Marujá (2), Itacuruçá (0), Enseada (0), Pontal (0), Camburiu (0), Foles (0)	2		0		1		0		0		0
	c. Number of issues raised by social actors
	Code	Actors	No. agendas		Associations		Local government		Environmental police	Church	NGO	Communities - Marujá	Marujá	Indigenous people
		Church (5, 6, 3, 15, 16), Communities (3), F. Inst. (3), DPRN (3, 10, 15, 16), Gaia (7), Marujá (7, 12, 10), Ocimar (7, 14, 16), Itacuruçá (14)	16		1		4		0	5	1	1	3	0
Empowerment of the communities	c. Moments in which the Caiçara communities gave their opinions
	Code	Communities	Marujá		Itacuruçá		Enseada	Pontal	Camburiu	Foles
	6	Marujá (4, 6), Itacuruçá (5), Enseada (0), Pontal (0), Camburiu (0), Foles (0)	2		1		0	0	0	0
	d. Deliberations
	Code	Deliberations related to Marujá	Fulfilled		Not fulfilled
	6	1, 5, 6	1		0

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Technique for the Analysis of Social Participation in Councils: Operationalizing Concepts

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