Urbanismo resilientes: gestão do risco de inundações no quarteirão 30 do Bairro Costa do Sol

Abstract

Currently there is a diversity of phenomena that have manifested themselves in cities, causing disasters, one of which is urban flooding. Thus, the research has urbanism as its broad area of study, urban impacts as a topic and urban flooding as the focus. The research case study is the Costa do Sol neighborhood – Q30, in the Municipality of Maputo, chosen due to its location, which has a history of flooding. The objective of the research was to carry out an investigation into the risk of flooding in the Municipality of Maputo, BCS – Q30, and propose the promotion of urban resilience through risk management integrated into urban planning. In the research methodology, interviews were used, as part of qualitative and quantitative research, observation and bibliographic review. The research method was divided into four stages: the first addresses an analysis of the geographic and social index of flood risk using a geographic information system (GIS) that allows the aggregation of information associated with social, economic and environmental indicators, as well as , territorial comparison; the second concerns the analysis of the social perception of flood risk through a social survey to collect information and knowledge of the population about flood risk; the third concerns the elaboration of an urban and social diagnosis and the fourth addresses the results and conclusions. Having carried out the study on block 30, it was concluded that the non-urbanized area has a high level of risk, exposure and vulnerability and the urbanized area has low levels of risk and vulnerability, despite being exposed.