Fatores de degradação ambiental nos agropolos do Ceará

Abstract

Currently, the preservation of natural resources has become a global concern, it has been noticing the increase in the number of searches looking for verifying the main causes of degradation of the environment, as well as the search for alternatives that will solve or alleviate the problems caused by the degradation. This research aimed to identify the factors social, environmental and economic leverage that agropolos environmental degradation in the state of Ceara. The study area covers the 18 agropolos of the state of Ceará. The indicators were obtained from secondary data supplied by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and the Institute of Economic Research and Strategy of Ceará (IPECE). The survey results show that the main causes of environmental degradation in the State of Ceará are caused by the low per capita gross domestic product at market price, high rate Exhaustion Health and high percentage of the harvested area with crops of subsistence, and all those factors are directly related to the precarious conditions of life for much of the population of the state. The results presented may help the planners of policies in the preparation of programmes to combat degradation specific to the needs of each agropolo what make those programs more effective.