ABSTRACT Promoting inclusive and effective governance in regional estuaries offers an encompassing challenge within the scope of Policy analysis and its interactions within socioecological research. The integrated approach for both theoretical elements has not easily been improved, despite the increase in analytical frameworks in this theme. The Paranaguá Bay Zone (PBZ) in the state of Paraná, Brazil, is composed of a few cities, several large, protected areas, and traditional communities. On the one hand, the intensification of real estate pressures in a low demographic region is creating a wave of value conversion regarding the trends of the coastal gentrification phenomenon, notwithstanding the lower degree of intensity when compared to other Brazilian estuaries. On the other hand, it shows a lack of political representation and institutional action at the subnational level. This asymmetrical process is strongly related to historical land development and the controversial process of implementing protected areas and zoning tools. Promoting the economic rise of the territory has affected traditional communities and conservation management, requiring permanent improvement in the ability for community mobilization and juridical vigilance in the face of impacts related to such pressure. In the meantime, scholars have considered knowledge building, which brings up assessment issues on how the decision-making process has been operated and what gaps and asymmetries can be revealed for further resilience analyses. This study is an effort to approach the performance of participative governance of the estuary and is restricted to a preliminary assessment of the participative management committees designed by legislation under area-based attributions. This study is not aimed at exploring the belief systems of different social groups/stakeholders. Results have a great emphasis on methodological building and testing, which revealed the importance of imposing an inventory and hierarchy model on the multiple committees of governance and their sectorization across adjacent areas. Results also underline variables of interest and pilot indicators in the subject under analysis. Preliminary results point to the need for overcoming methodological challenges, and findings that are useful as first evidence in the comprehension of the low performance by different committees, which often operate without any regular, systematic, integrated, transparent, legitimate, and permanent agenda of Policy activities for the PBZ fisheries territory. Qualitative data and institutional memoirs should be available and categorized in government programs, whereas research efforts that look to better recognize the idiosyncrasies of community realities under the pressures of non-transparent economic drivers are much needed. improved theme (PBZ Paraná Brazil cities large hand phenomenon level tools pressure meantime decisionmaking decision making analyses areabased area based attributions groupsstakeholders groups stakeholders groups/stakeholders testing challenges regular systematic transparent legitimate programs nontransparent non needed

This paper contains some explanation about the management model of a consolidated beach-touristic destination on southern Brazil. Works on especifical and recent empiric data of Ilha do Mel, been considered its agents and the oficial rules. The Gerencial Council consists of the mechanism supposed to insure the participation of inhabitants. The method of study is based in state of art of the subject and the them; also based in intervies, observation, field classes and investigative experiences. Those informations are debated by the auctors resulting in a problematization able to identify the main characteristics foccusing on methodological reccomendations for the title. The results point to the existance of conflicts in the participation kind of planning. There are three aspects to be resolved by criterial resolution about the difficulties found: composition, representativity and efetivity of the Gerencial Council.

El objetivo central de este trabajo de investigación consiste en comprender la manera en que ocurre la gestión territorial y la planificación participativa de un territorio turístico consolidado en la costa sur de Brasil, específicamente en Ilha do Mel, en el Estado de Paraná. La investigación aborda el tema a partir de las particularidades empíricas de la reciente etapa de desarrollo del turismo en este destino, considerando las normas y los agentes específicos. El Consejo Gestor de Ilha do Mel es el mecanismo observado de la supuesta participación de los habitantes. La metodología del estudio consiste en la revisión bibliográfica y documental sobre el tema, entrevistas, observaciones durante el trabajo de campo, clases en el campo y otras experiencias de investigación. La información generada y discutida por los autores permitió identificar los principales conflictos encontrados y, posteriormente, la proposición de recomendaciones metodológicas para el tema. Los resultados indican la existencia de conflictos en lo que respecta a la forma en que ocurren las iniciativas de gestión territorial y de planificación participativa. Se identificaron tres puntos a resolver sobre las dificultades analizadas: la composición, la representatividad y la eficacia del Consejo Gestor.