Diagnóstico da sustentabilidade socioambiental dos municípios do Crajubar (Crato, Juazeiro do Norte e Barbalha)

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Maria Lucineide Gomes da
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/123456789/23061
• topic: Desenvolvimento sustentável; IDSM; Indicadores de sustentabilidade; Geoprocessamento; Sustainable development; SDIC; Sustainability indicators; Geoprocessing; CNPQ::CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::ECOLOGIA

It is believed that in order to reach sustainable development at a local level, the public policy makers must evaluate and monitor the sustainability level, what can be made by using indicators. The sustainability indicators are tools that provide information that allow the evaluation of the results from the type of development adopted, as well as guiding decision-making regarding actions that aim the improvement of the quality of life of the local population. In this context, the aim of this work is to evaluate the level of socio-environmental sustainability of the cities of Crato, Juazeiro do Norte and Barbalha, which form a conurbation, named as CRAJUBAR. Located in the south of the State of Ceará, it is considered as the largest population density in the interior of the state, with high economic growth and urbanization levels. In order to achieve the proposed objective, adaptations were made in the Sustainable Development Index for Cities (SDIC), a methodology developed by Martins &Cândido in 2008. This methodology is composed by 44 indicators combined in six dimensions, that allow the analysis of the sustainability level of geographic spaces in a city scale. This methodology was developed based on two existing and wellestablished tools, the Brazilian Sustainable Development Index (IDS Brasil) and the Sustainable Development Index for Rural Territories (IDSTR). Because of certain characteristics of the region, the following changes were made: the removal of the “Number of City Councils” and “Number of accesses to justice” indicators from the Political-Institutional dimension, and the inclusion of eight indicators to the environmental dimension. The inclusion of these indicators were done due to the large natural and environmental heritage of the studied area and were obtained by geoprocessing techniques. As a result, it was observed that the region has an unsatisfactory sustainability level of just 0,4886, which is considered as warning. It was verified that Juazeiro do Norte has the best indicator, which is acceptable, and Barbalha has the worse, with a critical level in the Cultural dimension. The Political-Institutional dimension stands out as the most problematic as all cities have a warning level. Also, this dimension has variables that influence the performance of the other dimensions, and therefore, the whole CRAJUBAR sustainability performance. All things considered, no dimension reached an ideal level and because there were several warning situations, it is clear that local policy makers must work to improve the sustainable development indicators.