Urban Flooding: A Social and Environmental Issue

• Main Author: Luciana Travassos
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Nove de Julho 2012-06-01
• Series: Revista de Gestão Ambiental e Sustentabilidade
• Subjects: Drenagem Urbana; Gestão de Risco; Planejamento Urbano; Políticas Públicas; Intervenções Urbanas
• Online Access: http://www.revistageas.org.br/ojs/index.php/geas/article/view/12

Investigate the introduction of environmental considerations in public policy and urban interventions are complex. This article aims to observe the parameters that have been established in plans and projects for the management of storm and river water in urban watercourses located in a variety of cities, looking to raise some essential premises for public policy on urban drainage in the Brazilian context. It seeks to understand how these plans deal with floods and urban settlements in flood areas, and also explore the actions taken before, during and after extreme events. It could be say that adequately address drainage is primarily for institutional changes and, alongside the actions detailed throughout the article, for an investment of major consequence to allow decent housing to a significant portion of the population, an important set of environmental imprint actions.<br />