All rights reservedKraus, Lalitádos Santos Vitorino Costa, Aldenilson2024-08-232024-08-232016978-85-7785-551-1https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/1903Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the southThis article presents the political project of coexistence with the Brazilian Semiarid (CSA), which is being developed and defended by a regional network in order to lead to new policies and a new paradigm of development. The objective of the article is to analyse the conception of regional development inner to this new paradigmatic proposal, showing that a more socially just development is possible in the region. According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics in the Brazilian semiarid region lives 13% of the national population and it represents 11% of the Brazilian territory. Here we can find 60% of the Brazilian population that lives in extreme poverty condition and half of its population (more than ten million people) has no income or merely depends on governmental benefits. The region is characterized by a social structure based on a concentration of wealth, income, water and land. At the same time, it is an area susceptible to a threatening desertification process. It is characterized by economic stagnation, dependence on government resources and low human development index. This poses the urgent need for public policies that can reverse this dramatic situation.EnglishopenAccessconferenceObject1607-1609