Environmental indicators and applicability in high current river basin Mundaú-PE

• Autor(a) principal: Araújo, Marcelo Siqueira de
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Araújo, Hélio Mário de, Silva Junior, Clovis Gomes da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Eletrônica em Gestão Educação e Tecnologia Ambiental (REGET)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsm.br/reget/article/view/13111
• topic: Mundaú; Sustainability; Indicator; Mundaú; sustentabilidade; indicador

The upper course of the river basin Mundaú in Pernambuco State is the object of analysis of environmental relations based on the methodology of the Barometer of Sustainability combined with systemic vision made possible the production of molded diagram of vulnerability analysis in three dimensions: environmental, economic and social, through the application of sustainability indicators adopted by IBGE. The use of the methodology allowed us to conclude that the environmental dimension showed high level of vulnerability mainly driven by low fertility soils, steep rate of deforestation, Basin Committee disarticulation, besides the lack of diagnostics on water resources in the area. In the social dimension, the level was found to be moderate, but inspiring care about the poor records of HDIM, high rates of illiteracy and infant mortality. The economic dimension, it seems, requires more urgent action, as it reached the maximum level of vulnerability in all indicators, namely: low per capita income, low number of employees in the formal sector, low agricultural production and GDP inexpressible.