DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY: AN EVALUATION OF CONSUMPTION BASED ON THE GENERATION OF SOLID WASTE

Authors

  • Andrei Pittol Trevisan Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC
  • Hans Michael van Bellen Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14210/alcance.v13n3.p389-410

Abstract

The social and ecological dimensions of the development process involve a series of variables, such as the consumption patterns of society. This article seeks to widen the discussion on this consumer variable (which is measured by the generation of solid waste) and its relation to population variation. This work therefore seeks to determine and evaluate variations in the generation of solid waste, and their relation to population variation, in the city of Florianópolis, from 1994 to 2003. It uses a predominantly quantitative approach, with the use of linear correlation analysis to determine, in an exploratory way, the level of association between the two variables. Among the results obtained, besides the linear correlation coefficient, is the emergence of solid waste as a source of economic activity.

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Published

2008-08-01

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Vol. 13 No. 3(Set-Dez) (2006)

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