Qualidade de vida e meio ambiente:

experiência de consolidação de indicadores de sustentabilidade em espaço urbano

Abstract

The use of indicators for diagnosing the reality of urban spaces has been a trend, given that inequities
are materialized in the distribution of social, economic or environmental resources. This study
aimed at developing a system of environmental quality and urban life indicators, our empirical
focus is on the urban area of Formosa in the State of Goias in Brazil. From the analysis of the factors
that underlie experiences in building social and environmental indicators, we sought to identify
urban elements that portray the environmental, social, economic, cultural and political sustainability
with the participation of local social actors. The development of a system of indicators of quality of
environment and urban life with local collaborative networks and portraying the dimensions of
sustainability reveals a pedagogical path for the endogenous construction of possibilities of
understanding and evaluating key aspects of the production of urban spaces. We consider the
possibility of measuring social exclusion and social and environmental segregation from the
imbalance between the dimensions of sustainability, translated into elements that combine aspects
in the environmental, social, economic, cultural and political dimension.