Flood Risk Management in the State of Roraima, Amazon, Brazil (PAP014752)

Código

PAP014752

Autores

Antônio Carlos Ribeiro Araújo Júnior

Tema

Urban Floods

Resumo

The Amazon region is known for its exuberant flora and fauna and its numerous watercourses belonging to the Amazon watershed, but the region as a whole suffers because of recurrent and sporadic natural phenomena such as floods . The state of Roraima was chosen as the study area due cities have heavily hit by flooding, in addition to being at risk of flooding as the capital Boa Vista. The methodology used in study this guided in document analysis by the Atlas of Natural Disasters of the State of Roraima and social data of IBGE 2010, understanding the reality by systemic method, ie designing the space from the interaction of relations political, economic and environmental, because it has the assumptions that control measures and mitigation of flood risks are still inefficient in dealing with situations of natural disaster prevention.