A database of severe impacts caused by extreme precipitation events in the Metropolitan Region of Baixada Santista

• Grant number: 13/24236-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: January 01, 2014
• End date: December 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography
• Agreement: Belmont Forum
• Principal Investigator: Lucí Hidalgo Nunes
• Grantee: Nuria Aparecida Miatto Rampazo
• Host Institution: Instituto de Geociências (IG). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 12/51876-0 - An integrated framework to analyze local decision-making and adaptive capacity to large-scale environmental change: community case studies in Brazil, the UK and the US, AP.TEM

Abstract

The knowledge of the spatio-temporal patterns of hazards is fundamental for taking actions towards prevention, which would lead in fewer deaths and damages. It requires information on the temporal frequency and magnitude of relevant hazardous processes. However, Santos and other municipalities that integrate the Metropolitan Region of Baixada Santista do not have a common, comprehensive and reliable database of disasters triggered by atmospheric events, and although some individual effort for compiling data exists, information is not connected and standardized. Thus, the aim of this study is to catalogue known incidences of landslides and floods in the area, as an understanding of the effects of contemporarily climate variability and hazards, as well as potential future climate change, are critical to the sustainable development in the area. (AU)