Coping and adaptation strategies and institutional perceptions of hydrological risk in an urban Amazonian city
| Autor: | Milena Marília Nogueira de Andrade, Claudio Fabian Szlafsztein |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Coping (psychology)
Urban Population 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Amazonian media_common.quotation_subject 0211 other engineering and technologies Disaster Planning 02 engineering and technology Risk Assessment 01 natural sciences Perception Adaptation Psychological Humans Cities Environmental planning Qualitative Research Risk management 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common 021110 strategic defence & security studies Flood myth business.industry Local scale General Social Sciences Focus Groups Adaptation strategies Private sector Floods Geography General Earth and Planetary Sciences business Brazil |
| Zdroj: | Disasters. 44:708-725 |
| ISSN: | 1467-7717 0361-3666 |
| Popis: | This paper investigates coping and adaptation strategies and institutional perceptions of hydrological risk at the local scale in Santarém, an Amazonian city in the state of Pará, Brazil. Methods and tools of analysis encompassed secondary data, field observations, and qualitative techniques (focus-group discussions and in-depth interviews). Stakeholders from affected neighbourhoods describe their means of coping with and adapting to flooding, focusing on purposefulness, type of initiative and investment, risk timing, temporal and spatial scope, and performance. The results comprise an inventory of 16 mostly structural measures. The perceptions of six institutions of general responses to flooding are presented as opinions on actions that reduce the effects of such events, individual strategies and collective community endeavours in at-risk areas, and the activities of the public and private sectors to manage floods. Understanding of coping and adaptation strategies and knowledge of institutional flood risk perceptions can benefit the implementation of risk and disaster reduction policies and practices. |
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