Climate change, risk and strategies for adaptation in the brazilian context

Abstract

Environmental quality and adaptation to climate change risks is mobilizing the attention of the academic community and policy makers around the world. The use of the territory and its environmental resources at levels capable of ensuring the regeneration and resilience of populations and ecosystems, as well as the structuring of international and national environmental governance capable of equating environmental vulnerabilities under different prisms, has become a challenge to be shared by many countries. The sharing this challenge is reflected in a number of international legal instruments such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The purpose of this article is to analyse how the Climate Change Conventions have been internalized in Brazil and to what extent climate change adaptation policy is translated into legislative instruments related to the prevention of climatic risks. The study, based on a qualitative document analysis, shows that Brazil has built a robust legislative framework for the management of natural resources and risk management. However, the lack of tools to evaluate its effective implementation can be a matter of concern.