O desastre seca x políticas públicas. O semiárido paraibano: um estudo de caso.

Abstract

The drought disaster risk social construction in the semi-arid of the State of Paraíba is broached from the point of view of the global vulnerability and of the insertion of public polices for combating the effect of the droughts, starting from a study of case involving the agricultural poor population and the governmental institutions of the municipalities of Picuí, Sousa and Sumé. The analysis of the obtained results permitted to conclude that the called public policies, adopted until now had not been capable to reduce the vulnerability of agricultural poor population, historically excluded, uninformed, not knower of its rights and dispossessed of social capital stock, consequently with low resilience and high vulnerability, and that the institutions remain disqualified for the risk management of the disaster of drought. In the reality they are more characterized as programs then as public politics. Particularly the lack of social capital stock is detached as a contradictory point to the citizenship, participation, transparency of the actions of the local governments and to the inexistence of social and institutional support to receive and to apply the set of laws and norms structuralized for the implementation of the risk management of the disaster of the drought and the environmental control. Is still observed the not-convolution today between the adopted called public policies until now and the vulnerability of the poor agricultural population of the studied municipalities that corroborate with the understanding that one of the public policies sensible questions for the semi-arid region is the definition of the target public.