Desenvolvimento sustentável no Brasil: uma análise a partir da aplicação do barômetro da sustentabilidade

Abstract

Since the mid-twentieth century, when development has gained prominence, the quest for sustainability becomes a relevant factor because it is directly associated with the harmony between nature and human beings. Sustainability would be the guarantee that in a same preserved ecosystem there would be a continuity or improvement of the conditions of life for a group of people and their descendants. The research done to support this work aims to evaluate for the period of 2014 Brazil's approach to the concept of sustainable development, using the indicator called the Barometer of Sustainability. After the development parameters were defined, we tried to verify if the adopted path approaches or distances itself from the idealized condition. The present research took as a methodological basis the work done by Kronemberger et alli (2008). It is characterized as a quantitative research, since the results depend on the survey and analysis of selected indicators for Brazil in the year 2014. In general, it is important to highlight that because it is an analysis that includes several indexes, and that the same ones in some cases become impossible to achieve, the research is limited only to the data that are available and that are compatible for the sustainability analysis of Brazil in the year in question. According to the results, it is possible to state that: in 2004 Brazil had a sustainability index of 44.71 and was on an intermediate scale, and that in 2014 the sustainability index became 51.87 but the country still Continues to be considered an intermediary in the development criteria, comparing the results of Brazil for the years 2004 and 2014, it is possible to affirm that the country obtained a 16.01% increase in the sustainability scale. The indicators where the greatest advance is found are part of the subsystem institutional.