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Author(s)
Valderez Ferreira Fraga1 and Ana Paula Gomes M. Pinto2
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DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2017.10.003
Affiliation(s)
1. Institute of Economic (Ecex), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, CEP 22.290-902, RJ, Brazil;
2. Department of Production and Civil Engineering, University Unilasalle, Niteroi, CEP 24240-030, RJ, Brazil
ABSTRACT
Urban spaces vulnerable to
recurrent adverse climatic phenomena present specific, consecutive problems,
requiring a reflective view of their socio-spatial reality. This article
presents a case study about the towns of Amadora, Greater Lisbon, and
Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, which, originally, bore a common
Portuguese urbanistic praxis. Their urban contexts are characterized by the
occurrence of extreme risks of flooding and landslides caused by intense
rainfall. Both places feature aggravation of the risks due to accelerated urban
growth and disorderly land occupation. From the phenomenological perspective,
what happens to the human being leads to fruitful and/or dramatic experiences.
The important point is that there occurs learning for favourable action, with
solutions for each individual and for “the other”. Thus, it is proposed to qualitatively analyse, with
a posture that values the community experience
and urban practices of the towns that contribute to
the development of the culture of resilience which promotes practices of
prevention, precaution and vigilance founded on the experience of communities
that have been exposed. Besides this, it is intended to verify challenges in
the implementation of public policies aimed at sustainable urban development,
those that contemplate, among others: risk management action to deal with
natural disasters.
KEYWORDS
Urban spaces, culture of resilience, phenomenology, community, natural catastrophe/disaster.
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