This study seeks to analyze the relationship between municipal management (represented by the adoption of management instruments) and vulnerability to the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazilian municipalities. As proxies for municipal management and vulnerability, the Municipal Management Index (IGM) and the Municipal Vulnerability Index to COVID-19 (IVMCOVID-19) were used, respectively. The indexes were composed of in...
An important issue in the development of new processes is how to perform environmental impact assessments that support decisions at an early stage of process development. In this study, a methodological procedure was applied to insert life cycle assessment (LCA) in early design of two alternative processes (A and B) to extract starch from mango kernel. This procedure allowed to perform LCAs at technology readin...
The main objective of the study is to describe the network of the main entities involved in the decision making process within the scope of the management and implementation of the São Francisco River Integration Project (PISF). To this end, the portion of the project inserted in the State of Ceará was selected. The analyzed data were obtained throughout interviews. The method of analysis used was the Social Ne...
The purpose of this article wisas to analyze how indicators of social capital are related with the perceptions of rural community leaders and with their ability to deal with water scarcity caused by periodic droughts in the semiarid region. For that purpose, we conducted an empirical study in rural communities living in “Areas Susceptible to Desertification” (ASDs) located in state of Paraíba, Brazil. Methods e...
The aim of this study is to analyze the level of implementation of environmental management tools in the municipalities of Brazilian Semi-Arid (SAB). To this end it was adopted as proxy an environmental management index (EMI), constructed from indicators provided by the Institute of Geography and Statistics of Brazil (IBGE). After that, the municipalities were grouped into three classes according to similaritie...
The aim of this study is to analyze the level of implementation of environmental management tools in the municipalities of Brazilian Semi-Arid (SAB). To this end it was adopted as proxy an environmental management index (EMI), constructed from indicators provided by the Institute of Geography and Statistics of Brazil (IBGE). After that, the municipalities were grouped into three classes according to similaritie...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the benefits of tourism in coastal Fortaleza and surroundings, in the state of Ceará. Such benefits are not liable to be measured through traditional economic theory since they lack market prices. In these cases, however, they can be indirectly measured through the monetary valuation of the arnenities involved by the activity. The traveI cost method was used. This method us...
This study aimed to analyze the tourism contributions to the Brazilian economy, considering the productive framework of 1999. For that, it was aimed to characterize the inter-sectors relations and measure the impacts on product, employment and income, deriving from variations in the final demand, focusing on sectors that form the tourism segment. It was also aimed to outline this segment in terms of Gross Domes...
The bibliometric method corroborates to identify the productions linked to the relevant periodicals of interest. In addition to containing a quantitative result without itself, it presents the panorama of production in a spatial and temporal way, it also gives the researcher the opportunity to select his sample for review-type studies, in addition to guiding the construction of the theoretical-concepts bases in...
The goal of this study is to systematize the main agroecological practices with the potential to combat desertification in the Brazilian Semiarid. For that, bibliographic research and documentary research were carried out. The main practices identified were: composting, use of the natural resources of the local biome, utilization of forage from caatinga, irrigation techniques, rainwater collection system - conc...