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articles intended to oblige municipalities to control and monitor areas of risk or
environmentally fragile, including guidelines for land use and occupation, housing,
infrastructure and among others issues.
The data obtained through monitoring compose a database diagnostic that should
direct specific policies for the characteristics of risk and impact in each municipality.
This availability of data becomes relevant as it contributes to the formation of a
reliable panorama of the disasters in the Brazilian municipalities. According to Feltrin
et al. (2012, p. 10):
From NPCDP, it is possible to prepare an urban planning based on research and studies about
risk areas. With this planning it will be possible to reduce the risk of disasters, to provide
relief and assistance to the affected populations and to recover the areas that are affected
by disasters by assessing and identifying the threats and vulnerabilities of urban territory
(translated by the authors).
Despite these good intentions, institutional relations are not always developed
in an integrated and effective way in the Brazilian context. It is also essential that
the processes of communication and application of standards and guidelines aim to
jointly implement emergency, preventive, protective, preparedness and mitigation
practices. Without the association between the departments responsible for urban
planning in the municipality and Civil Defense activities, there is a barrier to the
consolidation of the risk management structure in the country.
Thus, as Mendonça (2004, p. 148, translated by the authors) describes: success will
not be achieved without the creation and application of an urban management with
social participation, without strengthening the role of the public sector in conducting
the process, and without true citizenship and democracy. Therefore, it is not only
necessary to discuss the reasons that hinder the implementation of urban policies—
not just related to the lack of economic resources—but also we should debate about
the complexity of implementing these policies themselves, rooted in a sociocultural
process of formation in the political structure in the country (Maricato 2000; Rolnik
1997).
If, on one hand, the implementation of effective urban policies seems far from
the reality of the country, on the other, they may be an opportunity to build disaster
management based on new concepts of prevention and protection. Thus, it is understood that, by creating urban space management mechanisms, the inclusion of
NPCDP participation in the urban planning and formation of the municipality can
influence the creation of joint solutions to complex problems of the municipality.
Besides this, it can provide an overview of conflicts. As discussed in this section,
the participation of urban planning has relevance in the consolidation of a disaster
management policy.
sudden floods or related geological or hydrological processes shall contain: I—land parceling, land
use and occupation parameters, so as to promote diversity of uses and contribute to the generation of
employment and income; II—mapping areas susceptible to the occurrence of high impact landslides,
sudden floods or related geological or hydrological processes; III—planning of preventive actions
and relocation of population from disaster risk areas IV—urban drainage measures necessary for
the prevention and mitigation of disaster impacts (Brasil 2012, translated by the authors).
K. A. Nakayama and M. S. Machado
articles intended to oblige municipalities to control and monitor areas of risk or
environmentally fragile, including guidelines for land use and occupation, housing,
infrastructure and among others issues.
The data obtained through monitoring compose a database diagnostic that should
direct specific policies for the characteristics of risk and impact in each municipality.
This availability of data becomes relevant as it contributes to the formation of a
reliable panorama of the disasters in the Brazilian municipalities. According to Feltrin
et al. (2012, p. 10):
From NPCDP, it is possible to prepare an urban planning based on research and studies about
risk areas. With this planning it will be possible to reduce the risk of disasters, to provide
relief and assistance to the affected populations and to recover the areas that are affected
by disasters by assessing and identifying the threats and vulnerabilities of urban territory
(translated by the authors).
Despite these good intentions, institutional relations are not always developed
in an integrated and effective way in the Brazilian context. It is also essential that
the processes of communication and application of standards and guidelines aim to
jointly implement emergency, preventive, protective, preparedness and mitigation
practices. Without the association between the departments responsible for urban
planning in the municipality and Civil Defense activities, there is a barrier to the
consolidation of the risk management structure in the country.
Thus, as Mendonça (2004, p. 148, translated by the authors) describes: success will
not be achieved without the creation and application of an urban management with
social participation, without strengthening the role of the public sector in conducting
the process, and without true citizenship and democracy. Therefore, it is not only
necessary to discuss the reasons that hinder the implementation of urban policies—
not just related to the lack of economic resources—but also we should debate about
the complexity of implementing these policies themselves, rooted in a sociocultural
process of formation in the political structure in the country (Maricato 2000; Rolnik
1997).
If, on one hand, the implementation of effective urban policies seems far from
the reality of the country, on the other, they may be an opportunity to build disaster
management based on new concepts of prevention and protection. Thus, it is understood that, by creating urban space management mechanisms, the inclusion of
NPCDP participation in the urban planning and formation of the municipality can
influence the creation of joint solutions to complex problems of the municipality.
Besides this, it can provide an overview of conflicts. As discussed in this section,
the participation of urban planning has relevance in the consolidation of a disaster
management policy.
sudden floods or related geological or hydrological processes shall contain: I—land parceling, land
use and occupation parameters, so as to promote diversity of uses and contribute to the generation of
employment and income; II—mapping areas susceptible to the occurrence of high impact landslides,
sudden floods or related geological or hydrological processes; III—planning of preventive actions
and relocation of population from disaster risk areas IV—urban drainage measures necessary for
the prevention and mitigation of disaster impacts (Brasil 2012, translated by the authors).