DA VULNERABILIDADE À RESILIÊNCIA: Autonomismo, invisibilidade e microdesastre em Vila Velha — ES

• Ano de defesa: 2022
• Autor(a) principal: Junior, Edilson Cavalcante de Oliveira
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo; BR; Doutorado em Geografia; Centro de Ciências Humanas e Naturais; UFES; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia
• Palavras-chave em Português: Autonomia; Desastres; Geografia Crítica; Planejamento Urbano; subject.br-rjbn; Geografia
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/16896

This thesis analyzes the impacts resulting from floods and inundations in spaces under conditions of socio-environmental vulnerability and the local mitigation practices. It is a recurring scenario related to climatic issues typical of tropical urban environments in so-called “developing” countries, aggravated by political, social and economic issues. Efforts seasonally undertaken to mitigate hydrological disasters shows incipient results, which involve the public, private and third sector. The recurrence of this situation, especially in spaces not lit by the media or the government, results in the adoption of autonomous practices conducted by directly affected social agents, who, in an associative manner, plan and act in reducing the risk of disaster improvised and on their own, using embankments, construction of dikes and barriers, suspension of structures and pumping liquids, which appear as palliatives against the hydrological complexity of the entire city area. This thesis includes theoretical and empirical reviews based on a case study, in the face of disaster threats, exposing measures of resistance, transformation and resilience. In this sense, research was carried out in a part of the city of Vila Velha, Espírito Santo, Brazil, particularly in the Dom João Batista neighborhood because of its historical, environmental and social characteristics. Located on the margins of the Aribiri River, it emerged from irregular occupations and its inhabitants live in a vulnerable situation. Starting from the systemic analysis and the hypothetical-deductive method, readings and bibliographic, documentary, reports, news, iconographic records and satellite images were carried out. Among the most important analyzes is the Municipal Plan for Disaster Risk Reduction. The research also includes an analytical treatment of the data obtained through field visits and unstructured interviews with social agents. Among the results achieved in this research is the discussion of the need to give greater visibility to the praxis carried out at the microscale, in the spatial areas of greater vulnerability, which experience a condition of multi-threats in their fixation resistances reinforced by the invisibility in the sphere of urban planning.