Índice de qualidade socioambiental para o Estado de Minas Gerais

• Autor(a) principal: Barbosa, Françoise de Fátima
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/3246
• topic: IDH; Socioambiental; Minas Gerais; IDH; Social and environmental; Minas Gerais; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ECONOMIA::ECONOMIAS AGRARIA E DOS RECURSOS NATURAIS::ECONOMIA DOS RECURSOS NATURAIS

This study aimed to identify associations between environmental quality and life quality in the State of Minas Gerais, in the year of 2000. It also aimed to quantify the level of environmental quality as well as to elaborate a Human and environmental Development Index which considers the quality of the environment at the level of human development in the cities of Minas Gerais. The theoretical framework was based on models of circular and sustainable economy and externalities. The methodological procedure adopted was the statistical technique of factor analysis, from the variables selected of the Population, Demographic and Sanitation Census 2000, among others. The results of the factor analysis for the year 2000 revealed on the whole that the state of Minas Gerais had a high percentage of households with cars, high percentage of poor and illiterate, high longevity and also relatively high percentage of native vegetation. Although the sanitation index elaborated for the State presented an average value of 0.73, the high rate of infant mortality should be noticed and may be related to the lack of basic sanitation and the high percentage of households that do not give waste its final destination or appropriate treatment. This is reflected, for example, in the high number of deaths due to infectious and parasitic diseases in the state, resulting in high medical costs. With regard to the Environmental Quality Index, the results showed that the state of Minas Gerais has an average IQA of 0.51, indicating that the environmental quality is 49 points below the maximum (100%). Approximately 42% of the cities presented IQA below average and 35 cities presented an index of environmental quality below 0.26. For the construction of the Environmental IDH of Minas Gerais, the economic (per capita income), social (education and health) and environmental (environmental quality) dimensions were used with the primary objective of identifying the level of human development in the state, incorporating the environment in the analysis. The average IDH of the state was 0.77 and the Environmental IDH built for the state presented an average value of 0.42. Thus, we can observe that when we considered the environmental quality the human development index declined, indicating that the environmental dimension is also important in the construction of the IDH.