Environmental risk management in municipalities of the Metropolitan area of Cariri, Ceará, Brazil

Abstract

The landslides areas and flooding risks are present in several cities in the world, annually causing several casualties and health problems to communities. The main objective of this paper is to present the situation of disorderly occupation in the Metropolitan Region of Cariri, the state of Ceara, located in the Northeast of Brazil and propose actions of the risk management in order to contribute to the minimization of natural disasters. Through activities in the occupied slopes and contact with civil defense the main problems existing in some municipalities of the region were identified. Through this study it was concluded that the disaster management is incipient in Cariri. In this sense the work also presented contributions to public managers as to problems related to natural disasters, generating subsidy for the preservation of the environment and to improve the population's quality of life.