The Social Construction of Natural
Disasters: A Systematic Review
of the Literature
Lidia Mara Floriani and Edilberto Nunes de Moura
1 Introduction
Populational growth, climate changes and unappropriate occupation of the lands
use are factors more and more discussed on debates about environmental care and
the natural disasters risk management, due to significant increase of adverse natural
situations that devastate and punish vulnerable populations in several places around
the world. The city as a stage to the urban events is related to the society and its set,
with its composition and operation, with its constituent parts and its history, what
we can call the specific features of the city (Lefebvre 1968), showing us how close
the city and the society are, and how we can attribute part of the urban events to the
society as the society develops along with the environment constructed.
One of the most important aspects that could compromise environmental and
life quality is the overload in the use and occupation of the soil, being the excessive
unregulated thickening one of the most important aspects to be considered in the environmental quality, seeing that the excessive concentration performed without a proper
planning, causes adverse conditions that could compromise both environmental and
life quality (Gonzales et al. 2013).
In order to organize urban growth and therefore decrease negative, and many times,
devastating effects that growth versus environmental degradation causes to society,
urban development public politics have been created to pursue the predominance
of balance and a sustainable urban development, as it appears in the City Statute
L. M. Floriani (B)
School of Fine Arts, Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, 1155 Imaculada Conceição St,
Curitiba, Brazil
e-mail: arqlidiafloriani@gmail.com
E. N. de Moura
Agronomy Engineering Department, Science of Life School, Pontifical Catholic University of
Parana, 1155 Imaculada Conceição St, Curitiba, Brazil
e-mail: edilberto.moura@pucpr.br
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Disasters: A Systematic Review
of the Literature
Lidia Mara Floriani and Edilberto Nunes de Moura
1 Introduction
Populational growth, climate changes and unappropriate occupation of the lands
use are factors more and more discussed on debates about environmental care and
the natural disasters risk management, due to significant increase of adverse natural
situations that devastate and punish vulnerable populations in several places around
the world. The city as a stage to the urban events is related to the society and its set,
with its composition and operation, with its constituent parts and its history, what
we can call the specific features of the city (Lefebvre 1968), showing us how close
the city and the society are, and how we can attribute part of the urban events to the
society as the society develops along with the environment constructed.
One of the most important aspects that could compromise environmental and
life quality is the overload in the use and occupation of the soil, being the excessive
unregulated thickening one of the most important aspects to be considered in the environmental quality, seeing that the excessive concentration performed without a proper
planning, causes adverse conditions that could compromise both environmental and
life quality (Gonzales et al. 2013).
In order to organize urban growth and therefore decrease negative, and many times,
devastating effects that growth versus environmental degradation causes to society,
urban development public politics have been created to pursue the predominance
of balance and a sustainable urban development, as it appears in the City Statute
L. M. Floriani (B)
School of Fine Arts, Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, 1155 Imaculada Conceição St,
Curitiba, Brazil
e-mail: arqlidiafloriani@gmail.com
E. N. de Moura
Agronomy Engineering Department, Science of Life School, Pontifical Catholic University of
Parana, 1155 Imaculada Conceição St, Curitiba, Brazil
e-mail: edilberto.moura@pucpr.br
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Integrating Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development,
World Sustainability Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59975-1_20
309