Organizational Capacitities to Cope with Extreme Events (COPE)

• Grant number: 22/02891-9
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Initial Project
• Start date: September 01, 2023
• End date: August 31, 2028
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Welfare Services - Applied Welfare Service
• Principal Investigator: Victor Marchezini
• Grantee: Victor Marchezini
• Host Institution: Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Nacionais (CEMADEN). Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (Brasil). Cachoeira Paulista , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Gabriela Spanghero Lotta ; Giovanni Dolif Neto ; Giselly Rodrigues das Neves Silva Gomes ; João Porto de Albuquerque ; Jose Antonio Marengo Orsini ; Luciana de Resende Londe ; Silvia Midori Saito ; Tatiana Sussel Gonçalves Mendes
• Associated scholarship(s): 25/00570-9 - People-centred warning systems: methods to include people with disabilities, BP.MS; 23/16922-6 - Exposure and vulnerability analysis of communities, schools, and social assistance reference centers located in flood and landslide-prone areas, BP.TT; 24/00474-7 - Communication for Preparedness to Weather and Climate Extreme Events (COPETEC), BP.JC; + associated scholarships 24/00469-3 - Communication for Preparedness to Weather and Climate Extreme Events (COPETEC), BP.JC; 24/03072-7 - Analysis of perceptions and risk communication strategies of public managers and communities regarding extreme events, considering age, gender, and people with disabilities dimensions, BP.DR; 24/00164-8 - Assessment of needs and capacities to prepare for extreme weather and climate events in Brazilian municipalities, BP.MS - associated scholarships

Abstract

The Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change indicates the intensification of climate-related extreme events, with several impacts and accumulated social vulnerabilities, causing disasters with cascading effects. To face these scenarios of climate and social crises - worsened by the Covid-19 pandemic -, how can we develop transdisciplinary research methods and approaches that can support the implementation of policies to cope with weather- and climate extreme events? How can we develop a methodology to implement the United Nations' recommendation regarding the need of building of people-centered warning systems? Looking forward to answer these questions, the objective of the Project COPE is to analyze the organizational capacities of local governments and communities to cope with extreme events, and, based on this evidence, coproduce strategies to implement public policies. The research will adopt mixed-methods, such as online survey, interviews, focus group discussion and participatory workshops related to public policies implementation. The research partners mobilization and scientific dissemination will use webinars, social media engagement, data journalism techniques and production of one-minute videos to identify and share good practices of coping with extreme events. The idea of Project COPE is to bridge teaching, research, extension activities and public policies implementation, gathering public managers and communities at risk, valuing differences related to gender, age and people with impairments. The proposal is associated to the SDGs 11 and 13. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

MARCHEZINI, VICTOR; SAITO, SILVIA MIDORI; LONDE, LUCIANA R.; DAMACENA, FERNANDA DALLA LIBERA. Implementation challenges of disaster risk management policies: The organizational capacities of municipal civil defense units. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION, v. 119, p. 17-pg., 2025-03-01. (18/06093-4, 22/02891-9)