Taking a close view at the actions of mitigating risk situations: the transfer of affected by floods of Ribeirão Piçarrão to housing projects in Campinas, SP

• Grant number: 12/11788-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2012
• End date: December 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Architecture and Town Planning - Architecture and Urbanism Project
• Principal Investigator: Laura Machado de Mello Bueno
• Grantee: Gabrielle Astier de Villatte Wheatley Okretic
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Exatas, Ambientais e de Tecnologias. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (PUC-CAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Much of the population lives in por conditions and often in the outskirts of major economic centers due to several factores, which might be political, economical, social, and environmental. A portion of the population ends up living in areas of risk such as hillsides, landslide-prone hills, river banks, and areas prone to flooding. This work intends to analyze areas with precarious settlements located in the Piçarrão River Basin in Campinas and survey the existing typologies; it also intends to analyze changes to the landscape which have occurred in the last two decades and future scenarios of urban and housing occupancy interaction in the dynamics of this river basin. (AU)