Sousa, Washington José deSilva, Suzana Melissa de Moura Mafra da2024-04-222024-04-222023-12-18SILVA, Suzana Melissa de Moura Mafra da. Energia eólica à luz do desenvolvimento à escala humana. Orientador: Dr. Washington José de Souza. 2023. 144f. Tese (Doutorado em Administração) - Centro de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2023.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/58209Wind energy is among alternative and sustainable energy sources, and its production and commercialization are associated with promoting development. This understanding – whether in the marketing or sustainable sense – is problematized in this study, which aims to understand characteristics and dynamics of the presence and influence of wind energy and its relationship with the conceptual-paradigmatic perspective of Human Scale Development (HSD) taking as an empirical environment experiences shared by members of fishing colonies in Rio Grande do Norte. The thesis is organized into three articles, the first being an integrative review of Brazilian academic production on wind energy in Applied Human and Social Sciences; the second, the systematization of applications of the HSD model to build subsidies for wind energy research; and the third, the elaboration of a theoretical-empirical framework of HSD associated with the wind energy production and distribution system from the perspective of Social Management, which occurs through empirical research with collectives, public and private organizations. The first article identified three aspects of production on wind energy in applied human and social sciences: technical-economic, political-institutional and critical. The focus of Administration's attention has been mainly on the technical-economic analysis of production. The second article presented possibilities for the use of HSD in research on wind energy based on the approach to Social Management and the possibility of using participatory methodologies that bring the discourse of civil society in the relationship with this production process to the center of the theme. The third article identified that the effects of wind production affect all the fundamental human needs of participants in fishing colonies, which is manifested in the expectation surrounding development promises, in the absence of accessible and effective participation mechanisms, in the loss of spaces (and their biodiversity), in fears surrounding the asymmetry of the communicative process and in doubts related to wind production at sea. The participatory methodology carried out in this research made it possible by the collectives to present mechanisms that enable better coexistence of wind production in communities. The findings attest to the conclusive thesis that the perspective of development occurs not under the dynamics of a human scale, but in a weave of absences, which reproduces dominant epistemologies that, privileging the developmentalist and economistic perspective of wind production, create silence about the conditions of production and life of the communities impacted by this production. At the same time as it dedicated itself to looking at wind energy in light of the HSD, indicating the influence of production on all human needs, the research also provided useful support for reflection on the absences perceived in the sector's public policies, to which participatory tools that put human beings at the forefront can be incorporated, such as HSD.Acesso AbertoEnergia eólicaDesenvolvimento à escala humanaPesca artesanalEnxu QueimadoRio do FogodoctoralThesisCNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO