Cármem Ozana de Melo

Índice de desenvolvimento rural dos municípios paranaenses: determinantes e hierarquização

The introduction of the productivity gains model in the Brazi-lian agriculture has caused important changes in the rural environment, affecting its development. The agricultural sector in Parana is part of this process and in this state, also, there have been significant shifts in the structure of production, which have had an indirect influence both economically and socially in the countryside. This essay, therefore, aims to measure the rural development rate in the cities of Parana and iden-tify the determining factors. The results have shown that, in a scale of 0 to 100, the average rural development rate is 43,63. 179 cities (44,86%) present rates above the mark mentioned and 220 (55,41%) are under this mark. By organizing the cities according to the development degree it was evident that more than half of the cities in the state have had low, very low or extremely low levels of rural development, a situation that calls for actions that aim to minimize the effects of the aspects which must be intensely worked on in order to improve life in the country and as a consequence, life in the city.

SUBSÍDIOS PARA ANÁLISE DO DESENVOLVIMENTO RURAL DAS MICRORREGIÕES DO ESTADO DO PARANÁ

This paper aims to analyze the development of rural micro geographic Parana state, intending to specifically measure an index of development, checking the determinants of this development and a hierarchical micro regions, according to the development level. Through factor analysis, we found that, on a scale of zero to one hundred, the average rural development stood at 36.17 (thirty-six to seventeen), resulting in a total of sixteen micro (41.03%) above this value and twenty-three micro-regions (58.97%)

A PARTICIPAÇÃO DO SETOR MADEIREIRO NA ECONOMIA DAS MICRORREGIÕES GEOGRÁFICAS DO PARANÁ – 2009

This paper presents an overview of the timber industry in the state of Parana, analyzing the micro-state in which the timber sector has economic importance, in 2009. Through regional measures, industry structure, production is organized in a matrix, from which information is extracted and made calculations of the measures of location and specialization. The results allowed to identify the most important segment micro manufacturing of wood products, and pointed out the micro-regions of Jaguariaiva, Rio Negro and Guarapuava as wood poles and the formation of local clusters in these regions.