Governance Arrangements for Socio-Environmental Sustainability in the Implementation of Large Infrastructure Projects in the Brazilian Amazon

In this article, we investigate how the conditions 'social participation effectiveness', 'political entrepreneurs', 'coordination', 'budget', 'ministerial priority', and 'administrative capacity' are mobilized in the governance arrangement of sustainable territorial development plans to attend socio-environmental demands in the context of infrastructure megaprojects in the Brazilian Amazon. We applied Mill’s method of difference to compare the role of these conditions in the processing of five socio-environmental demands (cases) claimed in the context of the implementation of the Belo Monte hydroelectric plant and the paving of the BR-163 road. The results indicate that the relevance of these conditions depends on context, and only the condition “social effectiveness of participation” was share by all the successful cases