Riscos ambientais em comunidades subnormais - a comunidade Santa Clara no bairro do Castelo Branco

Abstract

The rapid and disorderly way as has been occurring urbanization causes conurbations grow chaotically, with the absence of basic infrastructure, poor housing and poor services, further accentuating the environmental problems in urban areas, making the poor live with conditions of disaster risk in areas of geomorphological hazards, flood plains area among others. Given all the problems exposed, this study sought to identify some environmental risks that the population of the Community Subnormal Santa Clara, in the district of Castelo Branco II, the capital city of Joao Pessoa Paraiba, is inserted. Aiming thus contribute to the studies on urban management in community subnormal, with respect to issues related to threats, vulnerabilities and disaster risks. Were found at the study site several factors that may trigger a disaster, such as release of wastewater on the slopes, houses with structural hazards and anthropogenic changes in natural slopes, such as cutting and inappropriate cultivation of some plant species in unstable slopes. Were also seen major structural works undertaken by the municipal government, with respect to slope stabilization and storm water drainage, but all these made no minimal knowledge of the population about its features, generating some fears and misgivings.