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V-Clima
Vulnerabilities and Capacities to Deal with Floods and Risk Mitigation in Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), Emilia Romagna (Italy) and Valencia (Spain).
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The project analyses vulnerabilities and capacities to deal with floods and mitigate threats in Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), Emilia-Romagna (Italy) and Valencia (Spain). Given the (in)capacity to produce resilience, the question is: what were and are the political-administrative realities and the prevention of extreme climate events in the contexts prior to and following the climate disaster of the floods that occurred in the regions that are the subject of the research.
Climate disasters have increased in intensity and frequency, causing significant and often irreversible damage. This project aims to analyze the vulnerability processes generated by such disasters, focusing on floods that occurred in Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), Emilia Romagna (Italy) and Valencia (Spain).
The research problem consists of analyzing what were and what are the political-administrative realities of preventing extreme climate events in the pre- and post-climate disaster contexts of the floods that occurred in the regions of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), Emilia Romagna (Italy) and Valencia (Spain)
The objective is to investigate public policies related to the prevention and mitigation of these floods, with an emphasis on promoting resilience and protecting vulnerable populations. The analysis developed will be comparative between the three regions, addressing socioeconomic aspects of the affected populations, risk communication, government action protocols, collaboration between public and private sectors and the use of digital technologies in dealing with floods.
The methodological theoretical basis is the Metatheory of Fraternal Law, with methodological actions that allow for a deeper understanding of the causes, consequences and ways of preventing new catastrophes.
The general coordinator is Sandra Regina Martini, from the main headquarters of Lasalle University/Canoas. The coordination will be shared with three sub-coordinators from the three indicated regions. The V-CLIMA research team is composed of researchers from different areas of knowledge, which allows for a transdisciplinary and intersectional analysis of the research problem. The project is aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda, especially SDG 13.
