Índice Ambiental de los Gobiernos Autónomos Descentralizados Provinciales del Ecuador, Año 2013.

Abstract

This research aims at the construction of an environmental index of GAD's provincial of Ecuador for 2013. The methodology is based on the systematization of environmental components, for which they have built three components (spending on environmental protection, environmental management and environmental performance) by reference to the database of the Environmental Information Economic Census in 2013 Provincial Government Autonomous Decentralized and secondary research information was considered to assess the sustainability of the institution in environmental matters of GAD's provincial country. The results conclude with the importance of the creation of the environmental index, since they provide a baseline on environmental reality of GAD's, allowing classifying provincial governments according to the rating scale in an optimal, stable, unstable and critical for achieving sustainability of the institution.