Índice de desenvolvimento sustentável do município de Laranjeiras do Sul/PR

Abstract

Initially, the concept of development was identified as material progress, being seen as synonymous with economic growth, with the predominant understanding that enrichment would lead to an improvement in social standards. From the 1960s onwards, the reflection on the limits that growth imposes on development was intensified, and with this came the debate on sustainable development, becoming known as that type of development capable of meeting the needs of the current generation without compromising the ability to meet the needs of future generations. For sustainable development to be achieved, it is necessary to recognize that human systems and the environment are interconnected, thus, sustainable development must be studied according to the peculiarities of human-nature interactions, and according to the characteristics of the environment. The Sustainable Development Index for Municipalities (IDSM) emerges with the objective of diagnosing the reality and helping public managers and institutions to build alternatives to raise municipalities to a better level of development, taking into account the need to build adequate conditions for sustainability in the process of development. The IDSM is obtained by applying an aggregation method to indicators and dimensions. Thus, it sought to answer the following research problem: What is the level of Sustainable Development in the municipality of Laranjeiras do Sul/PR based on the IDSM? Therefore, this study aimed to analyze the level of sustainable development in the municipality of Laranjeiras do Sul, based on the elaboration of the IDSM. To achieve this objective, the work had as specific objectives: to address the relationship between development indicators and sustainable development at the municipal level, to elaborate the IDSM for the municipality of Laranjeiras do Sul, considering variables related to social, cultural, economic, demographic dimensions. , environmental and political-institutional and analyze, from the results, the level of sustainable development of Laranjeiras do Sul/PR. To meet the objectives and answer the research problem, the following issues were addressed: evolution of debates on sustainable development, the economy and development, and development indicators. In methodological terms, the research is applied, descriptive, documentary, bibliographical, case study and predominantly quantitative. The results obtained from the elaboration of the IDSM showed ideal sustainability for the social dimension (0.7598), for the acceptable demographic dimension (0.5455), for the economic one an acceptable level of sustainability (0.6086), political-institutional alert (0.4064), ideal environmental (0.7781) and for ideal cultural (0.8214). Thus, Laranjeiras do Sul achieved an acceptable level of sustainability (0.6533).