dc.description.abstract | The changes in recent years have put challenges in promoting regional development. In answer to these changes in cooperation networks become an alternative to the arrangement of regional development. The expansion and growth of these networks of cooperation produced questions of how occurs governance shared with the presence of public and private agents, inserted into the same network. Through literature, for better explanation and understanding of this issue, they searched to approach and concept data by several authors, on the origins of History that reveals humanity's origins since it already existed cooperative attitudes among the primitive groups and following were addressed basic elements in the cooperation. Also searched different approaches to the understanding of cooperation networks, network configurations and arrangements such as networks of cooperation in promoting regional development. Finally, there was need to seek a theoretical background about the governance of networks of cooperation, but, there is a need to deep their knowledge approached to the topic. In this context, this dissertation adopted the methodology of a qualitative study, using the case as the shared governance in the network of the Consortium Alto Teles Pires - arrangement of regional development in Mato Grosso, with the main objective is to understand how the governance of that network. To achieve the goal, and bibliographical references, there was a documentary research, in order to know and understand the consortium and also field work through interviews with those involved agents in the consortium Alto Teles Pires. | en |