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Availability of electricity, its sources and related management plans in Brazilian Amazon’s extractive communities
dataset
posted on 2019-06-06, 13:13 authored by Josmar Almeida Flores, Odorico Konrad, Cíntia Rosina Flores, Nádia Teresinha Schroder, Camila HasanThis dataset consists of a situational description of Brazilian Amazon's extractive communities regarding availability of energy sources. Data are reported for 50 protected 'extractive reserve' areas, their geographical extents, management plans, population details and sources of/access to energy.
The related study examines the access to energy sources for populations within extractive communities in the Brazilian Amazon and reports on the related presence or absence of management plan documentation. Management plans published by the relevant Federal or State authority are used to generate data on mode of access for communities, energy supply level and energy source. Where management plans are not available these values are not present.
The dataset consists of two files holding the raw extracted data and a detailed description of the methodology used to generate the data. These are in .xlsx Excel spreadsheet and .docx Word document formats, accessible via MS Office or open office applications.
SITUATIONAL_ENERGY_PANORAMA_OF_AMAZONS_EXTRACTIVE_RESERVES.xlsx - each row of the data table represents a named extractive reserve area, with the following variables reported for each:
Municipality
State: abbreviated two-letter code for Brazilian State
Date of Creation: of the protected area itself
Management Plan: the existence of a management plan covering this area - 'Yes' or 'No'
Administrative Sphere: State or Federal
Area in Hectares: territorial extent of the extractive reserve
Beneficiary Families: living within the protected area
Average No. of Hectares by Family: calculated as mean
Access: mode of access available to communities - 'fluvial', 'aerial' or 'terrestrial' (multivariate)
Energy Supply: single value describing level of supply: 'deficient', 'nonexistent' or 'no information'
Energy Source: relevant source accessible to the community - 'fossil', 'mainly fossil', 'public network', 'nonexistent' or 'no information' (multivariate)
Methodology_Description.docx - a detailed descriptive document outlining the data collection process from two official digital databases of the Brazilian government and one digital repository of a public interest civil society organization: (i) National Registry of Conservation Units of the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment; (ii) Dynamic Panel and Management Plans of the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio), an independent agency responsible for managing protected areas in Brazil at the federal level; and (iii) Social and Environmental Institute (ISA) respectively.
See the references linked below for these data sources.
