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0013/2014 - Living in areas of risk: Tensions between management of environmental disasters and meanings of risk in everyday life.
Viver em áreas de risco: Tensões entre gestão de desastres ambientais e os sentidos de risco no cotidiano.

Author:

• Mary Jane Paris Spink - Spink, M.J - São Paulo - Pontificia Universidade Católica de São Paulo - <mjspink@pucsp.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1672-505X

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Abstract:

This paper discusses the management of environmental risks by people in vulnerable situations. It is based on the initial phase of a research project concerning Life in risk areas carried out with the financial support of the CNPq. Research data was gathereda variety of sources: participation in activities of a local social organization (Sociedade Santos Mártires); informal conversations with residents and community leaders; legislative history of Brazilian civil defense; newspaper articles about slippages and floods in the region and extensive bibliographic research. Based on social theories of risk, the analysis sought to understand the processes though which people give meaning to risk. Three themes are discussed: a description of the territory, with focus on the notion of socio-environmental vulnerability; the complex network of actors that perform risk in this territory; local risk management with a focus on everyday life in the community. The preliminary results suggest that in order to understand risk management in situations of vulnerability it is necessary to take into account the heterogeneous network of actors that perform risk in the territory as well as the multiple dimensions of risk hierarchies for people who live in these settings.

Keywords:

risks;vulnerabilitycivil defense;

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Spink, M.J. Living in areas of risk: Tensions between management of environmental disasters and meanings of risk in everyday life.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2014/Jun). [Citado em 21/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/living-in-areas-of-risk-tensions-between-management-of-environmental-disasters-and-meanings-of-risk-in-everyday-life/14996?id=14996



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