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- Title
Desastres relacionados con colapsos de embalses en Brasil: aspectos sociopolíticos de una seguridad ilusoria.
- Authors
Costa Gonçalves, Juliano; Marchezini, Victor; Lopes da Silva Valencio, Norma Felicidade
- Abstract
In Brazil, including the reservoirs as a factor of threat to populations located down- stream of these, is still a fragile matter which makes the risk prevention measures to be even incipient. The State promotes the implementation of such civil works throughout the country as a practice permeated by ideological and apologetic discourse of progress, modernity and techniques, which remove the affected population to understand the structural errors and operation failures involving such projects. The present study aims to problematize sociologically the process by which the State and the hydraulic appraisals conceal the risks associated with the reservoirs, hindering the actions of prevention, preparedness, response and recovery carried out by the Civil Defense. It concludes by pointing out the need for reflection on the issue of reservoir safety and disaster management in Brazil.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; RESERVOIRS; RISK assessment; RISK -- Social aspects; DISASTERS &; society; VULNERABILITY (Psychology) -- Social aspects; CIVIL defense; SAFETY
- Publication
Estudios Sociológicos, 2012, Vol 30, Issue 90, p773
- ISSN
0185-4186
- Publication type
Article