Áreas de risco de ocorrência de inundação no município de Campina Grande: estudo de caso da Vila dos Teimosos.

Abstract

The increase in the occurrences of natural disasters has been an alarming feature in recent decades, making it essential the use of tools to prevent their impacts. The identification, characterization and mapping of the risk of environmental disasters is an already widespread technique to prevent the impacts caused by heavy rains and the consequent floods. This work consists in a study related to the problem of floods in the city of Campina Grande-PB, and had as objective the characterization of one of the great areas of risk of flood of this city through a case study. It was searched to recognize the situation to which those people are exposed, their profile, the perception which these people have about the place where they live and the way which they rub shoulders with the risk of floods, as well as to bring suggestions and proposals for the minimization of the impacts resulting from the urbanization of the studied area, and, consequently, of areas with similar characteristics. It can be perceived the absence of public policies which aimed to the resolution of the problematic of Vila dos Teimosos, since the residents do not know what kinds of measure will be taken to help them. Meanwhile, they live in precarious conditions, in the absence of any sanitation infrastructure, and an imminent flood risk without conditions to move to another location.