Vulnerabilidade Social, Percepções de Riscos e Desastres: Conceitos e Abordagens no/do Urbano (Social Vulnerability, Risk and Disaster Perceptions: Concepts and Approaches in/from the Urban Context)
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https://doi.org/10.26848/rbgf.v9.1.p144-162Keywords:
Risco, vulnerabilidade, desastre e percepção do risco.Abstract
O meio ambiente urbano reflete um leque de problemas de ordem social e ambiental, que é resultado do processo de urbanização desordenado observado sobretudo nas grandes cidades, e implica em situações de risco e vulnerabilidade que podem se materializar com o desastre. Diante desse cenário, as preocupações de pesquisadores se voltam para estudos que possam contribuir na implementação de medidas que visem reduzir ou mitigar os riscos que fazem parte do cotidiano destas populações bem como suas vulnerabilidades. Assim, o presente texto oferece uma discussão sobre os aspectos conceituais referentes ao risco, vulnerabilidade social e desastre, e como estão interrelacionados, buscando também esclarecer as confusões conceituais que permeiam esta temática. E ainda destaca a importância da percepção do risco no contexto urbano como uma importante ferramenta na gestão da diminuição do risco, buscando assim contribuir com as questões teóricas que envolvem essa ciência emergente que trata dos riscos, em função de sua importância para nosso cotidiano e para a futura qualidade de vida das pessoas.
A B S T R A C T
The urban environment reflects an array of social and environmental problems, which are the result of the disorderly urbanization process observed mainly in larger cities, and imply risk and vulnerability situations that can materialize as disasters. In this scenario, researchers’ worries are turning to studies that contribute to the implementation of policies that aim to reduce or relieve the risks of these populations’ everyday lives, as well as their vulnerabilities. Hence, the present study proposes a discussion about the conceptual aspects concerning risk, social vulnerability and disaster, and how they are correlated, also aiming to clarify the misconceptions that permeate this theme. It also stresses the importance of risk perception in the urban context as an important tool in risk reduction, thus aiming to contribute with theoretical questions that involve this emerging science, risk studying, which is so important to our daily lives, as well as to people’s life quality in the future.
Keywords: Risk; vulnerability; disaster and risk perception.
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