Methodological Strategy of Ecological Economic Zoning (EEZ) in the Municipal Scale: an Academic Exercise of Political Geography for the Management of the Territory

Methodological models of economic ecological zoning (EEZ) emerge in the last 20 years in Brazil as possibilities to strengthen the understanding of scholars for the potentiation of the decisions of the local political spheres in the Federal Brazilian model. Central institutional condition participants of applicability of zoning at the local scale, the municipalities have the ability to articulate regional management challenges that arise in relation to environmental, social and economic resources, as well as making them more productive and efficient in their own space and public management. In this context, this article shows the methodological paths taken by a group of researchers in the development of two zonings in two municipal units in different regions of Brazil. In them, several capital companies, and management of political actions are seeking to modernize (infrastructural, technologically...) cultural practices, environmental profile and traditional economic activities. In regional areas in which they operate, they crisscross up different interests that can turn definitely the local quality of life. The EEZ political use can be an opportunity to promote the well-being of local and regional scales management, and understand the nature of this type of zoning and its possibilities as municipal political action tool becomes essential for space research and Geography students of contemporary politics.