Climate change, adaptive capacity and sustainability: reflections from the cities of the brazilian semiarid region

• Main Author: Teixeira, Rylanneive Leonardo Pontes
• Publication Date: 2021
• Other Authors: Pessoa, Zoraide Souza, Dias, Eric Mateus Soares, Alves, Edilza Paula Queiroz
• Format: Article
• Language: por
• Source: Revista Geotemas
• Download full: http://periodicos.apps.uern.br/index.php/GEOTemas/article/view/3175
• topic: Agenda 2030; Ordenamento territorial; Energias renováveis; Semiárido brasileiro; Capacidade adaptativa climática; 2030 Agenda; Territorial planning; Renewable energy; Climate adaptive capacity; Brazilian semiarid; Agenda 2030; Ordenamiento territorial; Energí­as renovables; Capacidad adaptativa climática; Semiárido brasileño

Climate change is a major, if not the greatest, contemporary socio-environmental issue, impacting, in particular, populations and territories that are in vulnerable conditions, as is the case of those living in the semiarid region of Brazil. In this sense, the objective of this paper is to reflect on the challenges imposed by climate change in the brazilian semiarid region, in order to analyze the paths that cities in this territory have taken in the construction and implementation of climate adaptive capacity as a sustainability strategy. For this, the methodology of this paper follows the guidelines of a qualitative approach, making use of bibliographic and documentary research, and collecting secondary data as research instruments. From the analysis and discussion of the results, it appears that facing the effects of climate change in the semiarid region of Brazil is still a great and complex challenge for the cities in this territory. Although they rely on renewable energies (wind and solar, for example) as great potentials to face local climate changes, these cities do not present climate adaptation as an urban and environmental management strategy. Thus, it can be concluded that the construction and implementation of climate adaptive capacity as an alternative to achieve a sustainable future is still far from being configured as a strategic agenda for urban and environmental management in brazilian semiarid cities, especially in the current context in which there is a marginalization of environmental and climate issues on the federal government's agenda.