CLIMATE EVENTS OF HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL'S RISK FROM ARARAQUARA

Abstract

Several factors may lead societies to development of unstable cities, thus they become vulnerable into environmental system, such as: climate variability, social exclusion, poverty, uncontrolled population growth, irregular land use and occupation and other determinants agents. The municipalities in Brazil, mostly have a high vulnerability in some areas for several known causes, such as anthropogenic, natural, induced and mixed, but are not taken into account by actors involved in the management of environmental risks The accidents caused by these processes, which are eventually disasters, have shown in Brazil a high number of fatal victims and losses of economic nature higher than 60 million reais. This study aimed to collect data related to floods, through the mapping of hydrometeorological risk. The critical areas highlighted in the city of Araraquara is: Avenida Maria Antonia Carvalho de Oliveira, Rua Domingos Zanin, in Arangá neighborhood next to the Bus Terminal. Hence, the methodology for the elaboration of the risk map predicts the treatments to the needs of the Araraquara community, as it relates to environmental planning and hazards identification in the urban area, aiming to improve the protection of the environmental and quality of life.