O déficit no planejamento urbano e as áreas de inundações no Município de Assunção - PB.

Abstract

The present study aims to present flood risk areas in the city of Asunción-PB through mappings, and based on these mappings, to discuss the importance of the execution of public policies aimed at the planning and management of urban land use and occupation, along of the work is done analyzes of how the deficit in public policies and governmental actions generate these problems and how the population has suffered for lack of management of water resources. Through data analysis, field visits it was possible to map the flood areas in the urban area, and to understand how the urban planning deficit has been over the years one of the main motivators of these problems in the city of Asunción-PB.