“…In this perspective, goals such as environmental sustainability, gender equity, poverty eradication, respect for human rights, employment, and social integration must be achieved through a complex process that involves conflict and cooperation at the local, national, regional, and global levels, mobilizing a variety of social actors such as governments, international organizations, corporations, and citizens groups. It is, therefore, a global conceptual and relational framework referencing all the dimensions of development, including the prospect of the democratic integration of the ecological variable constitutive of social processes (Dutra & Parente, 2018;Acselrad, 2010;Almeida, 2005). Thus, for Almeida (2005), regarding the establishment of a development that is truly sustainable in countries such as Brazil, the ideal to be followed is the one in which the needs of social groups can be addressed from the democratic management of diversity, never losing sight of the whole society.…”