Economic growth and environmental decline in Mato Grosso do Sul State (Brazil), between 1991 and 2010
International Journal of Development Research
Economic growth and environmental decline in Mato Grosso do Sul State (Brazil), between 1991 and 2010
Received 17th May, 2019; Received in revised form19th June, 2019; Accepted 06th July, 2019; Published online 30th August, 2019
Copyright©2019, Raul Asseff Castelao. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This article aimed to analyze the condition of the sustainable development of 78 municipalities of Mato Grosso do Sul (MS), with aggregated variables in three dimensions: environmental, social and economic. The objective was to develop the index of municipal sustainable development in the three census years (1991, 2000 and 2010) and, with that, to analyze whether the localities grew in a sustainable way or not. Using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method, a DEA BCC model was initially calculated for each dimension and each year and, after that, the overall indicator. The results showed that, although the municipalities registered an improvement in economic and social development, the environmental dimension registered a decrease between 2000 and 2010, even though it developed positively between 1991 and 2000.
