Urban Vulnerability: a rescue of the vision transcales

• Autor(a) principal: Freitas, Priscila Maria de
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Valério Filho, Mário, Mendes, Rodolfo Moreda
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Geografia (Londrina)
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/geografia/article/view/41355
• topic: Urban vulnerability; Urban planning; Epistemologies of the south.; Vulnerabilidad urbana; Planificación urbana; Epistemologías del sur.; Vulnerabilidade urbana; Planejamento urbano; Epistemologias do sul.

This beginning of the 21st century already brings several examples of disasters that occurred due to the current relationship between man and the environment. Along with the studies of dangers and risk, which are necessary to face such disasters, the concept of vulnerability grows as fragility in this context; however, in the area of social sciences, vulnerability is understood in conjunction with historically structured social inequalities. Thus, this article intent to elucidate the relevance and scope of the concept of vulnerability and to value the debate already carried out on this subject by authors from the South. Based on a bibliographic review, a proposal for a matrix of thought about urban vulnerability is presented, understood as the maximum expression of engagement in the urbanization process, as a rescue of the scalable view of urban vulnerability. Demonstrating that more work is needed on this theme, as well as deepening existing studies and addressing the concept of urban vulnerability, understanding and contemplating the historical process in the analysis; understand that social problems are not just a question of cause and effect, but of overlapping processes in a given space and time.