COVID-19 AS A GLOBAL DISASTER: Challenges to risk governance and social vulnerability in Brazil
| Autor: | Carlos Machado de Freitas, Isadora Vida de Mefano e Silva, Natália da Cunha Cidade |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Ambiente & Sociedade, Vol 23 (2020) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1414-753X 1809-4422 |
| DOI: | 10.1590/1809-4422asoc20200115vu2020l3id |
| Popis: | Abstract On March 11 2020, the Director of the World Health Organization characterized the Public Health Emergency by COVID-19 as a pandemic (PAHO, 2020). In this article we understand this pandemic as a Global Disaster that can evolve into a Complex Emergency presenting risks for a Humanitarian Crisis in many countries, including Brazil. In this context we face two challenges: the governance of risks and coping and reducing vulnerabilities. In Brazil political, social and economic threats overlap with the dangers caused by the Sars-Cov-2 virus. These threats undermine the capacity for risk governance and widen and intensify social inequalities, making Brazil the new epicenter of the global disaster by COVID-19. |
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