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L. M. Floriani and E. N. de Moura
Natural catastrophes are common events in all societies reality, regularly or not,
and in all societies it represents a challenge (Mattedi and Butzke 2001). In Brazil, it
could not be different, the natural disasters devastate the Brazilian population in many
different ways, that historically have been intensifying because of mismanagement
of river basins and poor urban planning, in soil sealing, densification, retention of
the heat and air pollution, these facts contribute to causing such type of disaster at
urban areas (Kobiyama et al. 2006).
3 Methodology
3.1 Objectives and Issues that Delimit This Research
The main purpose of the research is to make a systematic review of the literature
related to social construction of natural disasters, having as a premise the identification of the most important works developed in the scientific community about the
subject, emphasizing articles that could bring discussions about pre-disasters features
and data.
The focus was given to the natural disasters, since that is the keyword of the
research, other types of disasters were not included on the research.
Some parameters have been used to delimitate the research to assure the mining
of potential articles to composse the presente work:
1. The search was made on the Periodical Portal available through CAPES—Coordination for the Qualification of Higher Level Staff, associated to the Brazilian
Ministry of Education, having the peer review system as a decisive criterion.
2. Since it contains current and social/tecnological subjects, the time window used
was related to the last 10 years, so the selected works could be, somehow, recent.
3. Only articles in English have been selected, excluding books, synopses and other
documents.
The Periodical Portal available through CAPES was chosen because it is one of the
most important research tools in Brazil, gathering the world’s scientific production
at only one place, and possessed 48.325 magazines at the end of 2018 (Capes 2018).
3.2 Search Strategies
3.2.1 Keywords Choice
The keywords were chosen according to the theme, so as not to be overly extensive
or restrict, to enable the search into several concepts, works with different structures
L. M. Floriani and E. N. de Moura
Natural catastrophes are common events in all societies reality, regularly or not,
and in all societies it represents a challenge (Mattedi and Butzke 2001). In Brazil, it
could not be different, the natural disasters devastate the Brazilian population in many
different ways, that historically have been intensifying because of mismanagement
of river basins and poor urban planning, in soil sealing, densification, retention of
the heat and air pollution, these facts contribute to causing such type of disaster at
urban areas (Kobiyama et al. 2006).
3 Methodology
3.1 Objectives and Issues that Delimit This Research
The main purpose of the research is to make a systematic review of the literature
related to social construction of natural disasters, having as a premise the identification of the most important works developed in the scientific community about the
subject, emphasizing articles that could bring discussions about pre-disasters features
and data.
The focus was given to the natural disasters, since that is the keyword of the
research, other types of disasters were not included on the research.
Some parameters have been used to delimitate the research to assure the mining
of potential articles to composse the presente work:
1. The search was made on the Periodical Portal available through CAPES—Coordination for the Qualification of Higher Level Staff, associated to the Brazilian
Ministry of Education, having the peer review system as a decisive criterion.
2. Since it contains current and social/tecnological subjects, the time window used
was related to the last 10 years, so the selected works could be, somehow, recent.
3. Only articles in English have been selected, excluding books, synopses and other
documents.
The Periodical Portal available through CAPES was chosen because it is one of the
most important research tools in Brazil, gathering the world’s scientific production
at only one place, and possessed 48.325 magazines at the end of 2018 (Capes 2018).
3.2 Search Strategies
3.2.1 Keywords Choice
The keywords were chosen according to the theme, so as not to be overly extensive
or restrict, to enable the search into several concepts, works with different structures