Banca de DEFESA: ANA CECÍLIA FEITOSA DE VASCONCELOS

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DISCENTE : ANA CECÍLIA FEITOSA DE VASCONCELOS
DATA : 08/03/2019
HORA: 14:30
LOCAL: Sala de Reuniões, CB
TÍTULO:

INDICATORS OF SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL VULNERABILITY: MODEL FOR ANALYSIS OF BRAZILIAN CITIES

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Indicator;. Socio-environmental vulnerability; Social; Environmental; Cities.

PÁGINAS: 155
GRANDE ÁREA: Outra
ÁREA: Ciências Ambientais
RESUMO:

The definition of socio-environmental vulnerability involves a more integrated perception of the living conditions of a given population. It should be noted that the impacts of natural disasters reconfigure urban scenarios and impact the form and condition of people's lives, but also, that context of society construction and the process of urban expansion in Brazilian cities, makes a part of the population does not know their rights and intensely undergo an overlapping of social inequalities: poverty, spatial segregation, lack of urban comfort and, above all, the rights to citizenship. In this context, this thesis aims to propose a model for the analysis of socio-environmental vulnerability of Brazilian cities, based on the proposal of a set of social and environmental indicators that consider social and urban issues. For this, it is characterized concerning the method as deductive, being classified as qualitative and quantitative research. Regarding the objectives, it is characterized as an exploratory and descriptive research, because it is a current and recent theme that opens up several possibilities for investigation, offering subsidies to broaden the debate and providing significant scientific and practical contributions. The results present a set of eight themes and 134 indicators that make possible a new perspective for the socio-environmental vulnerability analysis, which were applied in the city of Natal (RN) and indicated that the level of socio-environmental vulnerability was 0.4709, classified as 'High'. This result is considered unsatisfactory and worrying, because it places the city in front of many problems that demand urgency in its resolution, as a way of guaranteeing minimal quality of life conditions for its citizens. However, it is important to stress the importance of analyzing the city with a more targeted look at each theme and each indicator analyzed and identifying which ones need more attention to address the issues that surround them. In addition, it was possible to identify that the North region was the one that presented the level of vulnerability classified as 'High'. This is also the poorest region of Natal and, therefore, the one that presents the most latent problems in the issues related to the topics analyzed, especially Health, Work and Income, Urban Infrastructure, Education and Culture. This fact places it in a level of weak linear correlation and disparity against the richest regions of the city: East region and South region. Thus, the presented study represents a set of information of the city of Natal (RN) of easy understanding and capable of generating communication in society and providing adequate information for decision making. Therefore, it can support the interests of public power, since it can evaluate and monitor the indicators in a given time space, guaranteeing efficiency of the adopted policies and, consequently, improving the city for the citizens.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Externo à Instituição - GESINALDO ATAÍDE CÂNDIDO - UFCG
Interno - 350231 - MAGDI AHMED IBRAHIM ALOUFA
Interna - 2200167 - MAGNOLIA FERNANDES FLORENCIO DE ARAUJO
Externa à Instituição - MÔNICA MARIA SOUTO MAIOR - IFPB
Externo à Instituição - SERGIO MURILO SANTOS DE ARAÚJO - UFCG