A análise da percepção de risco e vulnerabilidade à partir da vivência dos alunos do Ensino Médio de Nova Friburgo RJ

• Main Author: Gonzalez, Denise de Almeida
• Publication Date: 2016
• Format: Master thesis
• Language: por
• Source: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Download full: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/13389
• topic: Natural disaster; Risk perception; Geotechnology; Risk area map; Vulnerability; Desastre natural; Percepção de risco; Geotecnologias; Mapa de área de risco; Vulnerabilidade; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::GEOGRAFIA

On January 2011, a huge precipitation occurred during a few hours in Nova Friburgo County and caused landslides and floods of the rivers on the Mountain Region of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, resulting in a high number of deaths. Environmental problems have increased due to rapid urban growth, disorderly and concentrated. The environmental fragility of the region associated to the population s vulnerability found in this city a fertile ground. Dealing with students from the elementary level from two public state schools, with spatialities and opposing economic activities, this research was based on the fact that this region has been submitted to an extreme event. Our general goal was to analyze the children perception of the risk through their elaboration of a risk area map and the specific goals compared the risk points to landslides and / or floods observed by the students from the different schools and the official organs, as well as the vulnerabilities of populations at risk. Based on our Geography classes of the mentioned year, the use of geotechnology as an educational resource and the lectures attended at the Municipal Civil Defense helped the students to acquire and develop a more accurate risk perception. This observation was concluded by analyzing their questionnaires. To create the risk area maps, Google Earth was used after been obtained for free on internet. Although with technical and structural constraints inherent in schools, the use of this method in the classroom was well accepted and understood by the students. It was found that the students' perception was mostly coincident with the risk points of the official bodies and the different spatialities of the involved schools. However, some points revealed particularities of the students from each school. Comparisons of risk areas and observation of the most vulnerable populations were analyzed using the software ArcGis 10.0and data collected by the IBGE 2010 Census. Our results showed that the most vulnerable populations displayed different results with paradigm breaks after submission to a huge disaster. It will be necessary then that a disaster risk management can be created and reach school, as our children and teenagers represent and reflect their living community and can act as multipliers of information and knowledge. Thus, geography can contribute to prevention and reduction of risk with the Civil Defense as well as Environmental Education meeting UN (United Nations Organization) proposals for disaster reduction