SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS: THE CASE OF THE RIO SÃO TRANSPOSITION PROJECT FRANCISCO IN PENAFORTE, CEARÁ
Sustainability. Indicators. PISF. Semiarid. Penaforte.
Sustainability presents itself to humanity as a challenge, an essential factor for the maintenance of life, through actions planned and executed under the socio-environmental and economic aegis, including from sustainable projects that value in their planning and development by the regulated use of resources natural like water. The São Francisco River Integration Project (PISF), popularly known as Transposition, for example, has interfered in different aspects where it is being carried out. It is a governmental water project that aims to guarantee water for human, industrial, agricultural and animal consumption in four states in the Brazilian semiarid region: Ceará, Pernambuco, Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte. The objective of this research is to analyze the sustainability of the PISF in Penaforte-CE, based on qualitative indicators in the environmental, economic and social dimensions. Altogether, 23 were employed, of which: 8 environmental, 8 economic and 7 social, distributed in two parallel scales of agreement, covering their scope and local execution. The methodological procedure used was the case study, supported by bibliographic, documentary bases, direct observations and field research. Its result indicates that the planning and development of the PISF include 100% of the environmental indicators, 75% of the economic ones and 72% of the social ones. It was concluded that they are efficient resources for the analysis of sustainability, since they accurately attest to the level of global performance of this enterprise (83%), being above the international average (70%) for high sustainability projects, from the socio-environmental point of view and economic, standard used by management systems such as TBL, PMI and GRI.