Percepção de risco em áreas de população vulnerável a desastres ambientais: estudo de caso no bairro da Bomba do Hemetério - Recife

Abstract

The choice for a study about the perception of the residents of the neighborhood of Bomba do Hemetério - Recife, arose from the experience of belonging to the region bordering this neighborhood and having observed numerous events over time. The city of Recife has registered a constant problem of gravitational force. This situation is justified by the topography of the city that presents conditions of susceptibility to the occurrence of events of this nature and the mentioned neighborhood does not differ from most of the other neighborhoods of the city. It is understandable to understand the dynamics of the gravitational movement of mass as an element of adjustment of nature, but when this occurs in an area with great occupation of people, this happens to be characterized as an area of risk. And the socioeconomic conditions of the community adds the element of social vulnerability that together with the natural susceptibility makes the region a zone of academic interest for this research. Thus the objective of this academic work is to identify aspects of the socio-environmental vulnerability of the population of the neighborhood of Bomba do Hemetério - Recife and their perception of the possibility of environmental disasters. The obtaining of the data for the present study was produced from activities of a cartographic nature such as the maps of slope, MDE, statistical maps on the socioeconomic data of the aforementioned neighborhood obtained from the IBGE website, maps of civil defense data on risk areas for this region and last visit to conduct an interview with a semi-structured questionnaire to obtain the perception of residents about the environmental risk in the neighborhood of Bomba do Hemetério - Recife. From the obtainment of all this data, an analysis and treatment of the information was carried out and, subsequently, submitted to what the arguments of the authors used as a theoretical contribution that guided all this research. Thus, it was possible to verify that the residents have a relative perception about the