Advisor: Marcello Motta de Freitas
Co-advisor: Rachel Coutinho Marques da Silva
Dissertation: Social production and the risk policy: A look at the dynamics of socio-environmental risk in Tres Rio, RJ
Defense date: 05/04/2024
Abstract
Currently, topics such as climate change and natural disasters have been a
central topic in urban debates. In this sense, the general objective of the work was
determined to investigate the processes relating to the distribution of risk and
socio-environmental vulnerability within the municipal limit of Três Rios-RJ. The
choice of this municipality as a case study is justified by the high frequency with
which episodes of flooding, floods and floods, during periods of intense rain, have
ravaged the region. For the proposed investigation, the methodology used
consisted of understanding the risk formation process as a point of intersection
between the concepts of geosystem and socio-spatial formation, which implied a
systematic review of bibliographies related to the themes and official documents
such as master plans municipalities. This investigation was based both on data
obtained primarily, through fieldwork to carry out analyzes of the
geomorphological landscape and semi-structured interviews with the population,
and secondary, obtained from the census of IBGE (2010), INMET, Mapbiomas
and others. The research showed that the risk is socially produced and when
dealing with floods, floods and floods in the urban fabric, the unequal production
of space plays a leading role. In this sense, the phenomena of urbanization stand
out, the development of the municipality without adequate planning, real estate
speculation plus a process of peripheralization/slumization of the working class,
which have economic, social and environmental impacts on the population.
Furthermore, the interviews showed that the municipal government still has a lot
to do with regard to the macro processes that involve risk management, showing
that the municipality needs to focus on basic policies that act at the root of the
problem.