A propensão à desertificação nos municípios do Estado do Ceará segundo os aspectos econômicos locais

Abstract

This research proposed an interdisciplinary study aiming at analyzing the tendency to desertification through Index of Propensity to Desertification related to the aspects economics according to the recommendations by the United Nation Organization. For that we made use of factorial model and clusters, taking as the study parcel the geographical area of the Ceara state. Upon the magnitude of the referred issue, this research made possible a study in depth about the desertification, offering a broaden knowledge to the choice takers helping them on the elaboration of public politics whose aim is to diminish the rate of land having a propensity to desertification.