The conceptual variations and divergences that permeate the debate on sustainability end up directly reflecting the choice of sustainability assessment (SA) processes, providing different methodological approaches. Among them, some researchers have pointed out challenges, but also opportunities to use geospatial data, techniques, and tools as resources to be explored in sustainability assessments. However, it was still unclear how geospatial tools have contributed in this context, as well as their future potential. Thus, through bibliometric mapping, this research answers these questions, through the identification of both the thematic fields of action of the geographic information system (GIS) in SA as well as the emerging research areas in this domain of knowledge. For this, we selected 1721 articles spanning 31 years (1990–2020). We observe that this is a subject of growing interest, as more than 50% of all publications were published after 2015. The main results indicated that, initially, the GIS supported sustainability assessments as a mapping tool associated mostly with environmental issues, however, the evolution of the analysis potential, through data modeling, gives rise to new application perspectives. This evolution takes place, in parallel, with the global discussion on sustainability, where multidimensionality starts to play a leading role, and sustainability indicators assume geographic positions.
Este estudo teve como finalidade identificar e analisar a cartografia morfológica e a densidade populacional das quadras e lotes da cidade de Juína-MT. Os dados foram coletados nos bairros: Módulo 1 e Módulo 6, com auxílio de técnicas e ferramentas topográficas de precisão. Posteriormente, os elementos foram processados em softwares de engenharia, os quais geraram plantas topográficas para os diagnósticos da topologia dos respectivos lotes e quadras. Os resultados mostraram que as quadras e lotes do bairro módulo 1 apresentaram formas ortogonais com densidade populacional de 28/habitantes por hectare e o Bairro Módulo 6 apresentou quadras e lotes com configurações mistas, ortogonais e não ortogonais e com densidade populacional com mais de 30/habitantes por hectare.
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