Evaluation of natural resource management systems based on sustainability indicators: A systematic literature review of MESMIS method use

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https://doi.org/10.33448/rsd-v9i8.6067

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Sustainable development; Environmental management; Assessment methods; Rural environments.

Abstract

The purpose of this article was to prove that the MESMIS method (Marco de Evaluación de Sistemas de Manejo Incorporando Indicadores de Sustentabilidad) can be used to measure the sustainability of rural environments in different realities. For this, a systematic literature review on the method was carried out in six renowned scientific article bases, where searches were made from 1999 to 2019 and the articles found were divided according to the year of publication, evaluated productive activity, region geographic area where the research was carried out, among other classifications. At the end it was possible to verify that MESMIS use has been increasing in the last years, being that the published researches that used the method are mainly on the measurement of the sustainability of agriculture and animal production activities, carried out mostly in the Americas and Europe , but also with use in other continents, thus proving the method can be used to measure sustainability in different scenarios.

Author Biographies

João Paulo Borges de Loureiro, Federal Rural University of the Amazon

Graduated in Business Administration with a Degree in Agribusiness from the Institute of Higher Studies of the Amazon, Specialization in Marketing from the Faculty of the Amazon and Master in Health and Animal Production in the Amazon from the Federal Rural University of the Amazon. He has experience in the administrative areas, conducting market research, preparing a business plan, analyzing the economic viability of rural investment projects and measuring organizational sustainability. He is currently a professor at UFRA - Campus Parauapebas and a PhD student in Economics and Rural Development through the Graduate Program in Agronomy at the Federal Rural University of the Amazon. Winner of the 2018 New Winds of Good Practice in Public Management Award.

Marcos Antônio Souza dos Santos, Federal Rural University of the Amazon

Agronomist, graduated from the Federal Rural University of the Amazon (UFRA, 1997) with a specialization in Rural Administration from the Federal University of Lavras (UFLA, 1999), master's degree in Economics from the University of the Amazon (UNAMA, 2002) and doctorate in Animal Science - Economics and Management of Livestock Systems by the Federal University of Pará (UFPA, 2017). He is an Adjunct Professor II at the Federal Rural University of the Amazon (UFRA), based at the Socio-Environmental and Water Resources Institute, working on teaching and undergraduate guidance (Agronomy, Environmental Engineering, Cartographic and Surveying Engineering, Forest Engineering, Fishery Engineering, Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics) and in the Graduate Program in Agronomy (PgAGRO). He was a Scientific Technician at Banco da Amazônia (between 1997 and 2009), developing activities in the areas of economic studies, planning and regional development. In the management area, he served as coordinator of the Economic and Regional Studies area of Banco da Amazônia (between 2006 and 2009), Local Coordinator of the National Plan for the Training of Basic Education Teachers (PARFOR-UFRA) in the municipality of Augusto Corrêa ( between 2012 and 2016) and Deputy Dean of Planning and Institutional Development at UFRA (between 2013 and 2017). It operates in the areas of Agrarian Economies and Natural Resources; Quantitative Methods in Economics; Agribusiness Economics and Management; Public Policy, Planning and Regional Development.

Helder Epifane Rodrigues, Federal Rural University of the Amazon

Agronomist graduated from the Federal Rural University of the Amazon (2018). Master's student of the Graduate Program in Agronomy (Ufra), linked to the line of research in Socioeconomics, Natural Resources and Agribusiness Development. He was a scientific initiation scholarship holder of the science and technology program for the project's agribusiness - Harvesting, primary processing, propagation and processing of native extractive species from the Amazon estuary from April 2015 to August 2015, he served as an intern in the vegetable garden and aromatics at the Federal Rural University of Amazonia- Ufra from January 2014 to December 2015. Scientific Initiation Scholarship at the Brazilian Agricultural Research and Agriculture Company- EMBRAPA AMAZÔNIA EAST from March 2017 to March 2018, working in the research line of Soil fertility, fertilization and plant nutrition. He is interested in the following topics: nutrition, soil fertility, rural economy and plant production.

Caio Cezar Ferreira de Souza, University of the Amazon

CAPES doctoral fellow by the Graduate Program in Development and Urban Environment at the University of the Amazon (UNAMA). Environmental Engineer, graduated from the State University of Pará (UEPA). Master in Agronomy by the Graduate Program in Agronomy at the Federal Rural University of the Amazon (UFRA). Specialist in Geoprocessing Applied to Agroecology and the Use of Natural Resources by the Federal University of Pará (UFPA). He was an intern in the environmental licensing of industries at the State Secretariat for the Environment and Sustainability - SEMAS.

Fabrício Khoury Rebello, Federal Rural University of the Amazon

Economist, graduated from the University of the Amazon (1990). PhD in Agricultural Sciences (2012), area of concentration in Agroecosystems of the Amazon (UFRA / EMBRAPA Amazônia Oriental) and Master in Agricultural Sciences, area of concentration in Amazonian Agriculture by the Federal University of Pará (2004). He is currently an adjunct professor III at the Federal Rural University of the Amazon (UFRA), working in undergraduate and graduate courses (Graduate Program in Agronomy - PGAGRO). He was an economist at Banco da Amazônia (between 1997 and 2013), working in the area of macroeconomic and regional studies, where he held the role of Planning Coordinator and Technical-Scientific Editor of Revista Amazônia: Ciência & Desenvolvimento and of the Contexto Amazônico Bulletin . He has worked in higher education since 2001, when he joined the University of the Amazon as a professor (2001-2012). He has experience in the area of Economics, with an emphasis on Sustainable Development, Environment and Natural Resources, Development Planning for Amazonian Areas, Rural Development, Regional and Urban Economics. In the area of academic management, he was PARFOR Coordinator at the Belém pole (2013-2017) and member of the PIBIC Committee of UFRA (2013-2017), in addition to the superior advice performed at the Municipality of Belém (1993-1997) and the positions assumed at Banco da Amazônia.

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LOUREIRO, J. P. B. de; SANTOS, M. A. S. dos; RODRIGUES, H. E.; SOUZA, C. C. F. de; REBELLO, F. K. Evaluation of natural resource management systems based on sustainability indicators: A systematic literature review of MESMIS method use. Research, Society and Development, [S. l.], v. 9, n. 8, p. e538986067, 2020. DOI: 10.33448/rsd-v9i8.6067. Disponível em: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/6067. Acesso em: 16 apr. 2024.

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