Vulnerabilidade das famílias residentes em áreas de risco de deslizamentos em Cubatão (SP) / Vulnerability of families living in areas at risk of landslides in Cubatão (SP, Brazil)

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

RESUMO

Landslides are common environmental hazards in urban Brazil. In Cubatão, a county located in the state of São Paulo, the slips are environmental hazards potentiated by combining the existence of occupations in the hills with altitudes ranging between 100 and 700 m high rainfall in the region, reaching an annual rainfall of 2,240 mm. According to the sociodemographic characteristics of areas at risk of landslides took place in 2007 by municipal and state governments, there are 22,080 people living in 7,832 dwellings, ie 21% of households in the city of Cubatão. This study was based initially in sociodemographics of the population residing in these areas and later in fieldwork aimed to highlight the strategies for the prevention of landslides by the residents in one of the neighborhoods hardest hit by the events. We used demographic data systematized by the Socio-Environmental Restoration Program of the Serra do Mar which, according to different degrees of risk of landslides, removal and resettlement of populations living in risky areas. Among the demographic data presented highlight a greater proportion of households with incomes of up to three minimum wages and residents with more than six years of primary school age and account for households with up to 10 years of local residence. The data obtained from fieldwork through semi-structured interviews in households in a risk area residents indicated that they use different strategies to cope with slips, such as help from neighbors and relatives

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ecologia humana risk factors civil defense fatores de risco degradação ambiental defesa civil administração de risco population environmental degradation

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