Abstract
Measuring public expenses with workforce in fighting forest fire. The frequency of forest fires and the lack of investment in public institutions arising from the current Brazilian economic crisis, emerges the difficulty of competent institutions in managing resources due to the increasing number of fires, mainly the labor. The objective of this work was to measure the expenses with labor in the combats against forest fires in Public Conservation Units by comparing it with the labor with prevention. This exploratory, documentary and ex post facto study was prepared based on documents and reports from public institutions involved in fighting a major fire in a Biological Reserve in the State of Espírito Santo. The data were analyzed according to the participating institutions, number of participants, positions, value of remunerations and days worked. To measure the average daily expenditure on different remunerations, an accounting model was developed, using the values of the remunerations for the year in which the fire occurred. In the end, it could be concluded that, for every 124.3 hectares burned, 110 individuals worked per day, the majority were military personnel at the beginning of their careers and that the expenditure on public labor employed in combat, both in quantity and remuneration, was much higher than the labor with the temporary hiring of firefighters.
Highlights
The discussions about the problems that involve the environment have crossed interdisciplinary contexts in order to build tools that assist in decision taking that involve social and economic aspects
Based on the above, the objective of this work was to measure the labor employed to fight a large forest fire in the Sooretama Biological Reserve, in the State of Espírito Santo, by comparing the public sector labor employed in the combat with that used in the prevention
Military labor Considering all military categories, on a daily average, 65 soldiers worked day and night, of which the great majority stopped working in the activities inherent to the military function to which they belong, to work in the firefighting at REBIO in Sooretama, such as, for example, NOTAer Military personnel, whose main responsibility is to plan, coordinate, control and execute police, aeromedical and civil defense operations
Summary
The discussions about the problems that involve the environment have crossed interdisciplinary contexts in order to build tools that assist in decision taking that involve social and economic aspects. In this context, forest fires stand out as one of the main problems faced by forest managers, due to the limited amount of equipment and financial and human resources, as well (TORRES et al, 2016). According to Rodriguez et al (2014), forest fires are characterized by high levels of destruction of natural and human capital, imposing large financial, environmental and human burdens on the society.
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