Os municípios cearenses após 14 anos de planos de desenvolvimento sustentável

Abstract

This research aims at analyzing the Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS), after 14 years since its creation. For that, indicating matrices, for the one hundred and eighty four counties from Ceara state have been developed, which comprises four vectors: environmental protection; relocation of public space; improvement of the population proficiency; and creation of jobs, as well as sustainable development of the economics. Each indicating group was submitted to factorial analysis, being also developed four partial indexes, according to each one of the vectors. Right after that, grouping analysis was used to divide the counties into five classes: very good, good, fair, undesirable, and very undesirable according to their comparable characteristics. The sustainable development index was established throughout the averages taken from the four partial indexes mentioned above. Fortaleza and Maracanaú counties qualified as the most developed. It may be concluded, also, that 84,24% of the counties qualified as fair, undesirable and very undesirable, urging the adjustment or implementation of brand new programs concerning the environment, education, public health, home, and creation of jobs and income sources improving, thus, the developmental indexes.