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Do large-scale and unexpected events, such as natural disasters, affect elections? This article studies the political dimension of the 19-S earthquake that hit Mexico City in 2017, a few months before the 2018 elections. Using fine-grained geospatial data, the results show that candidates from the city-level incumbent Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) had a small increase in vote share in 2018 compared to the previous election in precincts more exposed to damaged caused by the earthquake (in terms of both distance-based and per capita measures), accounting for the seismic profile and socioeconomic characteristics of the neighborhood. The article shows that the implementation of disaster-recovery policy explains part of this relationship. Moreover, voters were as electorally responsive to a future risk reduction strategy as to a reconstruction credit.

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Global pandemics and natural disasters have changed the ways of living and thinking and have given rise to various discourses on the collapse of the world. The omnipresence of the idea of "crisis" has led to several questionings that cut across different areas of knowledge. This article explores the challenges that the present time poses to the ways of thinking and writing history and undertakes a problematization of its assumptions, methodologies, and practices. It aims to conduct an exploratory route around some authors and ideas, susceptible of translating a conjuncture marked by transformations. It questions themes such as "human exceptionalism", rethinks the division between history and theory, questions modernity's time and the notions of direction, end and meaning of history, but also poses the hypothesis that there are histories connected to different temporalities, other ways of perceiving time, and re-signifying human agency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to understand the impact of INGO interventions in Mozambique since 1983. The objective was to identify factors that explain the proliferation of INGOs and argue that natural disasters, war and PRES were determinants. Preliminary results show that the problems created by drought and, floods, combined with the economic crisis, allowed hundreds of INGOs to act as emergency aid with reconstruction and rehabilitation programs, traditionally the role of the state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

this paper is part of a survey carried out with Haitian evangelical communities in Brazil during the doctorate period in Religious Studies. This paper aims to discuss the religious beliefs of evangelical Haitians in Brazil, linked to a worldview on migration. The methodology adopted for the research comprises a bibliographic survey, ethnography and open interviews. As part of the results obtained, it is possible to verify that Haitian migrations are part of the history of Haiti and are related to political and economic crises and natural disasters, and that religious beliefs permeate this process. We conclude that Haitians have a specific way of understanding migratory processes, which we call the migratory worldview, and that it was fostered by religious beliefs in the researched group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Disasters deeply impact the health of the affected population and the economy of a country. The health burden of disasters in Brazil is underestimated and more studies are needed to underpin policies and actions for disaster risk reduction. This study analyzes and describes disasters that occurred in Brazil from 2013 to 2021. The Integrated Disaster Information System (S2iD) was accessed to obtain demographic data, disaster data according to Brazilian Classification and Codification of Disasters (COBRADE), and health outcome data (number of dead, injured, sick, unsheltered, displaced, and missing individuals and other outcomes). Database preparation and analysis were performed in Tableau. In total, 98.62% (50,481) of the disasters registered in Brazil from 2013 to 2021 are natural, with a significant increase in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a biological disaster. This disaster group also caused the highest number of deaths (321,111), as well as injured (208,720) and sick (7,041,099) people. By analyzing data for each geographic region, we observed differences regarding disasters frequency and their health outcomes. In Brazil, climatological disasters are the most frequent (23,452 events) and occur mainly in the Northeast region. Geological disasters have the highest lethality, which are more common in the Southeast; however, the most common disasters in the South and Southeast are those of the meteorological and hydrological groups. Therefore, since the greatest health outcomes are associated with disasters predicted in time and space, public policies for the prevention and management of disasters can reduce the impacts of these events.

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The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) claims that climate change and increasingly extreme weather events have caused an upsurge of natural disasters over the last 50 years. Among the natural disasters, the flooding of Brazilian urban and rural areas stands out, causing the population severe material damages and in some extreme cases leading to socioeconomic losses. In this context, the Tapacurá River Hydrographic Basin (BHRT) presents a relevant importance for the metropolitan region of the city of Recife, as well as for the municipalities that are contained within the basin area. In the 1970s the Tapacurá dam was built in order to reduce flooding and overflow in periods of heavy rainfall in the headwaters of the basin, as well as in times of scarce rainfall, to serve as a water supply to the population of the region. The objective of this study was to identify the flood risk areas of the BHRT through the AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) methodology using radar images from the SRTM mission and a mosaic of Landsat 8 optical sensor images. The digital modeling was performed in the Hydrology module of ArcGIS software from ESRI GIS and Mapping Software, licensed to the Geotechnologies Laboratory of the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE). To verify the consistency of the statistical weights utilized in the AHP method, the consistency ratio (CR) was assessed, with this parameter being smaller than 0.1 for model validation. It was observed that the very high flood risk level of the BHRT is comprised of the areas with lower altitude and low slope in the basin, as well as areas near water bodies, with the presence of poorly drained soils and low surface runoff. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The worldwide emergence of the number of records of occurrences of disasters and the losses and damages generated highlight the need to integrate disaster risk management with other public policies, for the construction of resilient territories. The Sendai Framework and the National Civil Defense and Protection Policy provide for the integration of disaster risk management in the formulation and implementation of public development policies, with emphasis on land use policies and the local territorial level − strategic for being where the risk materializes and where public policies become actions, in addition to concentrating the attribution of competences as a federative entity. The study aims to analyze the integration of disaster risk management with public policies for territorial development of municipalities, starting from the Physical-Territorial Master Plans to verify how much the theme of disaster risk management is incorporated into its textual body. The research has a systemic approach; it is structured in the stages of survey, systematization, analysis, and synthesis. Research is basic; quali-quantitative; explanatory; uses bibliographic and documentary research techniques; descriptive in nature, univariate and multivariate descriptive statistics. The case study of the Itajaí River Basin shows that the body text of the Physical-Territorial Master Plans can be grouped into three major classes: 1) infrastructure, associated with the dynamics during and after the disaster; 2) political, strategic, and organizational structuring, with a more systemic approach; and 3) practical/applied vision. There is a greater concentration of plans in Class 2, and there is a greater frequency of specific terms in Class 1. The analysis of forms associated with disaster risk management in the textual body of the Physical-Territorial Master Plans of the municipalities in the Itajaí River Basin verifies the low integration of disaster risk management with municipal territorial public policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Flash floods are observed in the Una River Basin, Pernambuco/Brazil. This particular type of flood is a short-duration hydrological event with occurrence of the peak flow within minutes to few hours after the onset of the rainfall, taking place typically in mountainous regions. The objective of the paper was to assess the sub-daily hydrological and hydrodynamic modeling of flood events in 2011 and 2017. Sub-daily precipitation and streamflow were applied to the models Hydrologic Engineering Center-Hydrologic Modeling System (HEC-HMS) and River Analysis System (HEC-RAS). Model evaluation methods such as Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE), percent bias, and the ratio of the root mean squared error to the standard deviation of measured data (RSR) were used in the calibration process. The maximum infiltration rate and the Snyder peak coefficient estimation were the most sensitive parameters in the hydrological model. The calibration of the HEC-HMS showed good performances (Catende station NSE=0.78 and RSR=0.46; Palmares station NSE=0.68 and RSR=0.57). During HEC-RAS 1D flow simulations, steep regions in the Una River caused numerical instabilities. The 2D solution was needed to overcome this problem, allowing us to represent the water level in the city of Palmares satisfactorily.

ABSTRACT Objective To investigate the impact of in loco physical therapy interventions on military firefighters involved in search and rescue operations following the collapse of the Brumadinho dam, in Minas Gerais. To describe the clinical and demographic profile of military firefighters receiving physical therapy care. Methods Physical therapy assessment and care protocols were designed. Protocols were based on manual physical therapy approaches, and aimed primarily to alleviate musculoskeletal pain. Physical therapists involved were duly trained prior to interventions to level technical skills. Physical therapy was provided upon request (i.e., military workers sought the service after work shift completion). Results A total of 318 military firefighters, most of whom were males (92.5%) mean age 32.9 years, received physical therapy care (575 sessions spread out over 48 days). In this sample, 43.4% of military workers had a history of musculoskeletal complaints. Military workers seeking physical therapy after completion of their work shifts reported mean pain intensity of 5.4 in a numerical scale. Spinal pain was reported in 61.7% of cases, followed by generalized muscle and myofascial pain (16.7%), lower and upper limb pain (14.4% and 6.8%, respectively). At the end of sessions, mean pain intensity reported dropped down to 1.3. Differences were statistically significant (non-parametric Wilcoxon test; p=0.001). Conclusion The unprecedented physical therapy intervention described had a positive impact on relief of musculoskeletal pain among military firefighters involved in search and rescue operations during the Brumadinho dam disaster, and seen at the end of their work shifts.

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The present article discusses the coalescence of natural and sanitary situations (such as droughts, storms or pandemics) with the way by which they are treated politically and the outcome: the production of collective catastrophes in the Brazilian historical tradition. One addresses the way these social traumas are usually denied by the official narrative, returning, in turn, via oral tradition and literature, which convey the testimony of actors who, apart from state support - or even with their explicit opposition - build paths to face urgencies, articulating solutions and mobilizing social ties. Rodolfo Teófilo, writer and pharmacist from Ceará, who lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a period marked by hunger and long droughts, is one of these actors, responsible for acts of popular resistance. His books embody an attitude that is reflected not only in his life, but also in the events of his time. His narrative aims to defend the dignity of drought victims, who were confined in concentration camps outside the urban perimeter of Fortaleza. He also carried out smallpox vaccination campaigns that mainly affected the most disadvantaged population. His work, which has not yet received the deserved attention of critics, is today more thought-provoking and pertinent than ever, given that the same attitudes of disrespect and disregard for the most vulnerable are also being adopted by the leaders responsible for creating coping solutions for Covid-19. From a psychoanalytical perspective, with the concepts of denegation and disallowance, the books of Rodolfo Teófilo are problematized, treating them as the materialization of an aesthetic of melancholy and the testimony of a traumatic memory. The sertanejo is taken as a paradigm of otherness. Hunger and drought, as a paradigm of a collective subjective catastrophe. Hence one discusses the writer's legacy for the current political, cultural and health scenario. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Background: Nurses play a central role in disaster preparedness, so appropriate disaster-related education is essential. However, almost all Portuguese undergraduate nursing curricula do not address disaster situations. Objective: To understand nursing schools' contribution to developing undergraduate students' knowledge and skills in disaster scenarios and the existing constraints on integrating this content into undergraduate nursing curricula. Methodology: A qualitative study with methodological triangulation, including interviews and focus group, was carried out to explore the perceptions o f 35 nurse teachers and 6 nurses with experience in health care provision in disaster scenarios, about integrating disaster-related content into nursing curricula. Results: The study reveals that disaster management and preparedness should be integrated into undergraduate nursing education to guarantee the effective development and more objective regulation of students' skills in this area. Conclusion: Portuguese nursing schools need to promote and develop undergraduate training in disaster preparedness and a more inclusive and objective regulation of this area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study aimed to evaluate the biophysical susceptibility to flooding of the Piracuruca River Hydrographic Sub-basin, based on four environmental indicators - lithological permeability, average relief gradient, circularity index and vegetation index adjusted to the soil (SAVI) - which have been integrated using map algebras. The research employed bibliographic and cartographic survey, use of Geographic Information Systems and map algebra to build the biophysical susceptibility index to floods. Through the study it was inferred that in the Piracuruca River Sub-basin the following prevails: high permeability, which occurs in 58.8% of its area; relief with a flat slope of 58.4%; micro basins with elongated shape and general circularity index = 0.35, which represents a low probability of rapid flooding; vegetation with low photosynthetic activity was identified in 49% of the area. These integrated variables indicate that the average biophysical susceptibility to floods predominates, occurring in 59.5% of the Sub-basin, which indicates the need for further studies to understand the vulnerability of the located population and the creation of strategies to cope with floods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to identify who are the affected people and what is the State's responsibility in the face of natural disasters arising from inadequate housing in uninhabitable places. Based on the dignity of the human person and the right to housing, we seek the path through which it is possible to find the appropriate way to achieve these rights. Understanding how, and in what way, these rights are violated, and how the State positions itself through the right to housing, and the disasters that occurred in these areas, can represent a way to manifest the constitutional essence and promote effective access to the right. Emphasizing that the State's omission of the right to a dignified life, causes low-income and homeless people to settle in these inappropriate places, exposed to the most different weather conditions and without the due protection of the public authorities, the lives of countless families are put at risk. About that, this article aims to verify what happens to people who are installed in these places in the event of an environmental disaster, their immediate right to temporary housing, and finally fixed housing. We will also analyze how the State should act to prevent the occupation of these types of land and what methods are used to prevent inadequate housing. Because of what was said before, it is intended to find the best way to protect the individual, the family, and society, so we can improve dignity, and citizenship of the society which is the central objective of the Federal Constitution of 1988. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The objective of this study was to analyze the sustainability to water erosion in the Capim river/PA-MA. Acquired precipitation (GPCC), slope (TOPODATA project), land use and land cover data (MapBiomas) and pedology (Brazilian Soil Classification System) were obtained. Based on these variables, in a Geographic Information System environment, the product representing the sustainability to soil water erosion was generated. A sustainability gradient for soil water erosion was observed in the SE-NW direction, where it was higher near the mouth of the Capim River. The other variables were: clinical component presenting predominance of stability and high sustainability in the south of the basin; land use influences the entire axis of the basin, indicating instability in the medium-low Capim and in the extreme southeast. It was observed that the sustainability to erosion in the Capim watershed is motivated by intensified land use near the mouth. The zoning carried out in the basin is a warning sign for the municipalities of São Domingos do Capim, Rondon do Pará and Goianésia do Pará. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although Brazil does not suffer from natural disasters and there are unusual episodes of terrorism in buildings, the growing construction industry demands increasingly audacious practices that diverge from the path of security and structural integrity. This fact has generated more and more concern in the technical environment, since there are professionals who, due to the lack of knowledge about the progressive collapse, neglect its possibility and do not foresee possible damage scenarios. Nevertheless, norms in the national scenario lack explanations and preventive practices to this phenomenon. That said, the present work has the function of analyzing the methods of generic application, being able to conclude which is the best method to be used. A didactic building was modeled with the intention of applying three different methods, reaching the conclusion that the methodology adopted by the UFC 04-023-03 standard of 2009, in addition to resisting the typical requests of the considered collapse phenomenon, presented an increase in material and reasonable financial, plausible to be employed in the reality in which we live. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Over the centuries, human societies have sought to understand and to explain the violent manifestations of nature that hit them in the most diverse forms (droughts, intense rains and storms, floods, earthquakes, eruptions, plagues, epidemics). For a long time, too, the explanations provided were integrated into cosmologies or narratives that corresponded to types of magical or religious beliefs that, while giving a sense to the cosmos and seeking to alleviate the anxiety of ancient societies in the face of their vulnerability, legitimized a certain political and social order. One of the topics that is most evident in the research conducted in this area is that of natural disasters. It is not a matter of thinking about history as a catastrophe, as Walter Benjamin understood it, but of observing catastrophes as a “total social fact” (Marcel Mauss), insofar as their occurrence and the respective impacts affect multiple dimensions of the affected societies, revealing certain aspects that, under normal conditions, could go unnoticed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article is based on various studies undertaken by the author on Forced Migrations in Mozambique and it introduces to the radiography of a country, which has brought forth housing spaces deemed incomplete, that have resulted from a combination of political-military tensions, natural disasters, development projects and international migration trends. Mozambique is a Southern African country, located in the southern East side of the continent. The Channel of Mozambique lies in east coast limit zone of Mozambique in an extension of 2700Km stretch. Since its independence from Portugal in 1975, the country has undergone through some significant metamorphoses in its geographical territorial space, originated by cyclical natural disasters, political and military events; social and economic factors that hindered development and made people not realize the true meaning of sedentary, as there is an emergency call towards Internally Displaced persons and refugees. It is on record that upon its independence, the country adopted a "hospitable policy" of hosting people that were escaping from oppressive regimes such as "the likes" of Chile, former Southern Rhodesia (currently Zimbabwe), East Timor and South Africa. Due to geographical location factors and the fact that the country enjoyed military peace between 1992 and 2013, Mozambique played an important role in hosting asylum seekers and refugees from the Region of Great lakes of Africa and the Horn of Africa, apart from investors and those who pretended to be investors, the country saw an influx of people from different parts of the world, Africa being the main contributor, Middle East, Europe, China, North America and Brazil have contributed to the spatial shape of Mozambique. It is important to refer that the immigrant population and those that are fleeing rarely fixe their "roots" in hosting countries. The reason being, it is possible to observe in all national territory the existence of places which reflects the reminiscent of a war thorn scenario, which either construction buildings are not yet concluded or are partially destroyed. The example of such, for instance the City of Xai-Xai in Southern Mozambique, with the heavy sand project, the province of Sofala and the unfinished Sugar plantation project while in Mandimba district in northern Mozambique, a place filled with ruins. The development projects in course reflect without a doubt the emergency character of a country with never-ending conflicts and under reconstruction. It is about a vicious cycle that along time remained an obstacle in allocating, housing spaces for construction purposes and for that I call incomplete spaces or unfinished spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the last decades, the concern with environmental issues has gained worldwide visibility, with the planet’s climate and its changes being one of the most debated subjects today. The resumption of the global debate is mainly due to the emergence of the theme of socioenvironmental disasters. This research aimed to characterize the social representations of these disasters in the media. We sought to answer this objective through a retrospective documentary study, analyzing 264 reports from Veja magazine, published from 1968 to 2018, whose content evidenced the theme. The corpus was analyzed using a descending hierarchical classification. The social representation observed in Veja magazine presents representational aspects related to the dissemination of scientific knowledge, personal reports focused on tragedy and overcoming, and reports on political and economic issues related to disasters. It was also identified that, over the decades, there was a significant change in the approach to disasters. Above all, greater involvement of the role of society and governments giving more emphasis to the political and social issue. Even so, the social aspect could be debated deeply and more often so that it would not put aside until the next disaster. On the other hand, there is also widespread dissemination of a culture that considers most natural disasters just an expression of natural causes, disregarding social, political, and cultural factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper presents the study developed to assist Municipal Coordination of Civil Defense and Protection (COMPDEC) of Caxias do Sul in the identification of areas susceptible to flooding events in the municipality. The COMPDEC database from Caxias do Sul, extracted from the Citizen Assistance Service (Alô-Caxias), was used for the mapping of areas with flooding in the city, from 2013 to 2018, which according to the information collected, recorded 317 occurrences in different points of the urban perimeter. Identification of possible areas of flooding was performed using a variation of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Multicriterial Analysis (AM) methods. In order to compare the points with occurrence records, the following data were selected for analysis: hypsometry, slope, hydrography, surface sealing and three-dimensional image generated by the Qgis geoprocessing software, resulting in the identification of 14 areas susceptible to flooding. County. These areas have flatter relief features with slopes less than 25% and surrounded by areas with higher elevations and slopes greater than 50%. The rainfall data analyzed were taken from the National Center for Monitoring and Alerts for Natural Disasters (Cemaden), and indicate that flooding usually occurs after rainfall ranging from 13 mm to 24 mm within 1 hour, or after rainfall with volume from 17 mm to 46 mm over a time period of 2 hours. The validation of the field results indicated that the methodology developed and used in this study was 64% effective, demonstrating the need for adjustments and analysis of other criteria so that it is possible to determine with greater certainty areas with risk of flooding in the urban perimeter of the municipality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In November 2015 it happened one of the largest environmental disasters ever recorded in Brazil. The breaking of the tailings dam named "Fundão" in Minas Gerais state. In this study, the goal is to measure the affected area closest to the dam break in order to quantify the impacts to the environment. To accomplish this, it were used tools, techniques and geoprocessing software to geotag, treat, sort, and analyze images of the disaster area at different times. The methodology used enable the measurement of the impact area and consequently assess the environmental damage caused by the natural disaster. Based on the project study area, the tailings slurry reached an area of approximately 944 ha and 249.29 ha of Atlantic Forest vegetation. It also affected 125.60 ha of alternative land use. In relation to water resources, a total of 21.80 km of watercourses were affected, namely: Santarém Stream, Red Stream, North Gualaxo River, Mirandinha Stream, Capião Stream and Camargo Stream. The use of Geographic Information System - GIS in this study met the proposed objective, because with this technology it was possible to measure part of the damage caused to the environment using satellite images. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract Adversities are mostly investigated and debated according to their negative impacts and to the emergency action they demand. This article presents the results of research on the paradoxical potentialities (positive externalities) that might emerge from them. Its main approach is provided by interviews with local agents responding to the 2011 Disaster in the State of Rio de Janeiro and by international aid agencies. The main topics discussed here are: solidarity as an asset that goes beyond altruism, the distinguished role of the media and the state as regulator agents of such solidarity, and the increasing importance of international aid agencies. This empirical study is based on a series of interviews with selected international aid agencies according to their global activity and volume of resources administered. The conclusions indicate that potentialities may be recognized as real assets in post-disaster action; however, they are not easily understood by policymakers.