Competitiveness and Social Inclusion within National Programme for Production and Use of Biofuels: Negative Feedbacks on Profitability Awareness in Sharp Institutional Settlements in Brazil South Region Concerning Soybean Oil

Abstract

This paper intends to make some inferences about the relation of competiveness and social inclusion, and interpret in an operational manner the success of South Region soybean familiar growers ascribed to the National Programme for Biofuels Production and Use. It inquires the hypothesis of sharp institutional arrangements acting as an interface in the social system through whose structure the interrelation between competitiveness and social inclusion might take place. The methodology include collected data, statistical treatment of series and modelling the system. The theoretical framework stemmed from Ulrich Beck's Risk Society, Garret Hardin's Tragedy of the Commons and Eli nor Ostrom's Governing the Commons to Cesar's three-dimension analyses of governance towards competitiveness. The assessments confirmed that Insitutional Settlements are suitable to preclude Risks, but it needs finer operationalization. The model helped to enlight that the most sensitive variable is profitability and if there are severe perturbations, then the negative feedbacks will trigger social vulnerability.