Análise de impactos em áreas propensas à desertificação em municípios do Estado do Ceará

Abstract

This article has as main objective to analyze the impacts of socio-economic activities and natural conditions in areas prone to desertification in the municipalities of Ceara. Specifically, we seek to build an index of proneness to desertification for each of the municipalities in Ceara making possible its ranking according to the phenomenon. The aim is also to identify the weaknesses of each municipality in order to enable adoption of specific regional policies to combat desertification. As a tool of analysis was applied to multivariate data analysis, specifically the factor analysis and cluster analysis. The results showed that the index proposed here was able to capture the phenomenon in the regions studied as potential indicators of perceiving themselves as the activities related to leverage human action on the environment and act as a major stimulator prone to desertification.