2015-03-312015-03-312001-06BRITO, Daniel Chaves de. A SUDAM e a crise da modernização forçada: reforma do estado e sustentabilidade na Amazônia. Ambiente & Sociedade, Campinas, n. 8, p. 69-90, jan./jun. 2001. Disponível em: <http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1414-753X2001000800005&lng=pt&nrm=iso>. Acesso em: 30 mar. 2015. <http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1414-753X2001000800005>.1809-4422https://repositorio.ufpa.br/handle/2011/6507This article presents a study of the crisis of the politics of development of the Amazônia. In a first level, it focus in the perspective of the State reform in the 1990s; in a second level it relates that perspective to the need of building a structure that makes possible developmental action based on proposals of sustainability. The analysis ends with the presentation of some proposals of reform made by developmental institutions (SUDAM/BASA) and, in this context, it shows the difficulties to transform a system that has been based on patrimonial principles in its political actions.porAcesso AbertoPolítica de desenvolvimento regionalAção políticaReforma do EstadoEstado (Nação)SUDAMBASAAmazônia brasileiraArtigo de Periódico