Rural territorial development in ceará’s semiarid

an analyze from rural settlements areas

Abstract

The text intends to critically analyze the rural territorial development in a multidimensional way at the identity territories in the semiarid of Ceará, considering the rural settlements areas. The data used to analyze the rural development were collected by a field research, having six settlements localized in five identity territories as its sample space. The index founded for the semiarid of Ceará was 0,5163. Considering that the index varies between “zero” and “one”, it presented a median or intermediate situation, indicating that the actions remained more on an emergency level, not consolidating themselves as a long term policy, thus blocking the reach of an effective sustainable development. The indicators that most contributed positively were the environmental and political/organizational, and the indicators that contributed negatively were the social and economic.