Riesgos y vulnerabilidades: un análisis de la gestión de riesgos socioambientales en Río Grande del Norte, Brasil.

Abstract

For some years now, the tripod of risk management in Brazil has been the subject of concern. In general, the country has focused its socio-environmental agenda on crisis management, that is, public policies and actions developed after the occurrence of harmful events or events that cause damage to society and the environment. The lack of inclusion of risk management on government agendas is not limited to the federal level, as state and municipal agendas have also neglected this issue. In this sense, the main objective of this research is to analyze how socio-environmental risk management is configured in the state of Rio Grande do Norte/RN, in the context of building a planned and fair state. Methodologically, a quantitative approach was taken, through the production of graphs, based on the database made available by the Municipal Basic Information Survey (MUNIC), published in 2020. The results of the survey showed that socio-environmental risk management is not very high on the government agenda in the 167 municipalities of Rio Grande do Norte/RN. Therefore, from reading the data, it can be concluded that the majority of municipalities in RN do not have planning, forecasting and prevention instruments to deal with the possibility of events occurring that could be harmful or cause damage to Potiguar society and the environment.