Morphometric analysis and degree of susceptibility to flooding as a subsidy for risk management and disaster response at municipal level: the case of Ubatuba-SP

• Grant number: 24/05927-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: May 01, 2024
• End date: April 30, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Geosciences - Physical Geography
• Principal Investigator: Raul Reis Amorim
• Grantee: Dimitrie Hristov Junior
• Host Institution: Instituto de Geociências (IG). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 22/03080-4 - Water resources management and the impacts of flooding on bagasas: the study of susceptibility, vulnerability, exposure and resilience to flooding in Brazilian cities, AP.PNGP.PI

Abstract

Risk management and speed of response to natural disasters is an emerging issue in Brazilia urban centers, given the increase in their occurrence as a result of the advancement of anthropogenic systems and the intensification of extreme weather events, to this end, integration is necessary from multiple areas of knowledge and application of different tools for analysis, mitigation and reconstruction in the face of these events. With this scenario in mind, the research aims to apply instruments from watershed morphometry and modeling to characterize the physical environment in identifying susceptibility to flood events through the application of geomorphology in a GIS interface, analyzing multiple conditions of these natural events , in order to support decision-m king in preventing the exposure of populations to danger in the municipality of Ubatuba - SP.