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A Sustainable Development Index application to Mato Grosso do Sul State municipalities

Abstract:

This paper presents a method widely used for the development of the Index of Municipal Sustainable Development (IDSM). Aiming to generate a ranking of these cities and serve as an indicator for public decision making as much as private for sustainable local development. The results showed that the main problem of sustainability in this institutional structure that, in some municipalities, is on alert.

Key words:
indicators; local development; sustainability

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