Risk, Innovation and Development in a Changing Climate: The Role of Drought Preparedness Policies and Disaster Risk Management in Ceara, Brazil.

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira Costa, Carlos Germano
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Cavalcante Holanda, Ana Karina, Hernández Díaz-Ambrona, Carlos Gregorio
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Gestão Ambiental e Sustentabilidade - GeAS
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uninove.br/geas/article/view/10014
• topic: Drought Preparedness; Drought Management; Early Warning System; Drought Monitor; Semiarid.; Preparación para Sequías; Políticas contra Sequías; Gestión de Sequías; Sistema de Alerta Temprana (SAT); Monitor de Sequías; Semiárido.; Preparação para Secas; Gestão de Secas; Sistema de Alerta Precoce; Monitor de Secas; Semiárido.

Droughts are among the most common type of disasters, generating enormous socioeconomic impacts in the world, especially when considering the silent character they have. These phenomena are becoming more frequent, intense and longer lasting, which gives us an idea of ​​what may happen with the accentuation of climate change. This article seeks to provide and overview of the measures and policies addressing drought prevention and preparedness, facing the impacts of climate change, in the State of Ceará, Brazil. This study addresses issues of public policies concerning drought risk management in order to allow a greater understanding of policies and programs, experiences and perspectives by the analysis of the process of elaboration of the Integrated Disaster Risk Management Plan of the State of Ceara, Brazil (PIGRD-CE), as well as of the development of the Early Warning System - Drought Monitor -, while addressing the political coordination, which led to the creation of the Drought Commission (Comitê das Secas). As a result, we understand this strategy, concerning drought preparedness, as a tool able to increase the adaptability and resilience of the political process. In this regard, we present the experiences accumulated by the State of Ceara in drought management processes showing a promising potential for replicability in other Latin American countries also subjected to threats that the changing climate may impose, in combination with the analysis of related risks - political/institutional/cultural -, in the development of public policies to draw together the main conclusions, lessons learned and recommendations.