%A Costa, José Eloízio da %D 2019 %T RURAL TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY IN ALAGOAS ALTO SERTÃO, BRASIL %K %X The policy of rural territorial development in Brazil goes through impasses and ruptures after thirteen years of execution, and it is pertinent to highlight the importance of analyzing case studies to understand the extent of its consolidation in Brazil. Initially, it is important to include the territory as a category that transcends geography in this area, involving related areas, in particular the question of the institutional capture of the category. The objective is to understand in this process the problematic of the so - called social management of rural territories as a governance mechanism in the line of rural development with territorial interface starting from the functioning of the Territorial Collegiate (CODETER), having as a case study the Territory of Alto Sertão Alagoano ( TASA). We deal with social management based on the documents produced between 2014 and 2017 of the collegiate plenaries of the territory on screen, focusing on the issue of the correlation of forces of social actors represented in the collegiate, territorial guidelines and extraterritorial. The study is exploratory with a qualitative approach. The results demonstrated that the territorial approach is a phenomenon in consolidation and the arrangement operates as a very particular instrument, unlike other more conventional arrangements, involving integration issues in the rural world. Keywords : Hail; Geostatistical tools; Civil Defense; Social Vulnerability.  %U http://www.mercator.ufc.br/mercator/article/view/2413 %J Mercator %0 Journal Article %V 18 %@ 1984-2201 %8 2019-04-06