Qualidade ambiental : vulnerabilidades e potencialidades no município de Itabaiana-SE

Abstract

Since that environmental and life quality must be equivalents, the aim of the present study was discuss social and environmental indicators, assuming quality of life as the realization of social and environmental conditions in a balanced manner, frequently influenced by environmental, socials, economics and cultural patterns, lifestyle and aspirations. The area of the study was Itabaiana, highlighted within the Sergipe due to its geographical location and economic, social and political expressiveness. Drawing a parallel with urban centers, the city is small but has been showed a growing urban structure, indicative of vulnerabilities. The study then presents the objective assessment of quality of life in the city of Itabaiana-SE, considering social and environmental vulnerabilities and potentials of urban, rural and its territories. Procedures to identify the social and environmental vulnerabilities of availability and access of infrastructure, equipment and urban services, analyze the social and environmental consequences arising from the techniques used in irrigation; present the cultural identity of the population by the perceptual evaluation about the quality of life; make a survey of programs and actions of public intervention in urban and rural, to describe conditions in the territorial definition of urban and rural areas, made the research possible. This thesis was divided into five chapters where the first concerns the theoretical and methodological considerations and the others are linked to social, environmental, socioenvironmental, political, cultural and economic that permeate the quality of life. These dimensions are associated with the diagnosis of social and environmental indicators such as infrastructure and collective welfare, Solid Waste, Health and Technical Education of the farmer and his family, education and citizenship, work and income. The indicators were developed through prior verification of the possibility of research studies on the site associated with the parameters already used in previous research in order to merge environmental, social, economic and cultural, because the scaling of the quality of life running through each these spheres should not be judged from the trial of only one given, parameter or indicator. Overall, the survey pointed to no concern of most individuals involved in research towards social and environmental issues, since the cultural identity of the population is marked on, specifically, the question of economic/commercial. Thus, from the analysis of the indicators found the existence of vulnerabilities and potential socioenvironmental, which influence the quality of life. Thus, programs regarding access to citizenship and require long-term development, because the necessary transformations the quality of life in need of redefinition of cultural values.