Flood Risk Mapping in the Amazon

Andrade, Milena Marília Nogueira de; Bandeira, Iris Celeste Nascimento; Fonseca, Dianne Danielle Farias; SilvaBezerra, Paulo Eduardo; Andrade, Ádanna de Souza; Oliveira, Rodrigo Silva de

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“…Outro ponto relevante é que esta articulação é ponto fixo para os músculos acessórios da respiração13, que nestes pacientes são recrutados a todo o momento para manter uma ventilação e oxigenação adequada, pois na FC ocorre um aumento importante da carga resistiva pelo componente secretivo impondo um tensionamento e consequentemente um encurtamento crônico na cadeia inspiratória. 2,14 Outro achado importante no segmento do ombro foi à elevada prevalência de rotações internas e protrações. Estes resultados corroboram que nestes pacientes há um desalinhamento biomecânico importante no ombro com encurtamento da cadeia anterointerna dos membros superiores e um desequilíbrio muscular entre os estabilizadores anteriores e posteriores.…”

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Avaliação Postural Computadorizada Em Pacientes Portadores Da Fibrose Cística Em Um Centro De Referência Em Salvador-Ba

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Introdução: A Fibrose Cística (FC) é uma anormalidade genética de caráter sistêmico gerando ao sistema respiratório uma hipersecretividade e obstrução brônquica crônica. As alterações posturais pouco são observadas nesta população existindo carência de estudos desta problemática. Objetivo: Identificar e descrever as alterações posturais do tronco em pacientes portadores da FC. Metodologia: Este estudo observacional de corte transversal em pacientes com FC. A análise postural foi realizada pela forma tradicional e através do software CorelDRAW, foi avaliado as alterações de cabeça, ombro, ângulo de Charpy e as curvas fisiológicas da coluna vertebral. Resultados: Observou-se maior prevalência do sexo masculino da raça negra, com idade média de 7,3 anos. Elevada freqüência de rotações internas, assimetria e anteriorização do ombro. A média do ângulo de Charpy foi 92,5 (± 8,7). Na coluna vertebral a lombar, torácica e cervical foram respectivamente as mais acometidas. Estes resultados são justificados pelo aumento da carga resistiva no sistema respiratório, promovendo um tensionamento crônico ao sistema mioarticular, gerando alterações biomecânicas do tronco. Conclusão: Crianças com FC apresentam alterações posturais, sendo os achados mais freqüentes à assimetria, anteriorização e rotação interna de ombros, retificação cervical, hipercifose torácica e hiperlordose lombar.

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Avaliação Postural Computadorizada Em Pacientes Portadores Da Fibrose Cística Em Um Centro De Referência Em Salvador-Ba

Oliveira

Dias

Dinniz

et al. 2015

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“…Indeed, some places in the Amazon region were identified by the index as being greatly exposed to multiple hazards such as landslides, floods, flash floods, and droughts [29][30][31]. The Amazon region also has a very high social-vulnerability index based on indicators associated with employment, social dependency, race and ethnicity, availability of quality sanitation, and housing structures, amongst others [32,33]. However, the DRIB-Index does not use visual tools at the local level to evaluate specific socioeconomic features.…”

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Assessing Urban Vulnerability to Flooding: A Framework to Measure Resilience Using Remote Sensing Approaches

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Assessing and measuring urban vulnerability resilience is a challenging task if the right type of information is not readily available. In this context, remote sensing and Earth Observation (EO) approaches can help to monitor damages and local conditions before and after extreme weather events, such as flooding. Recently, the increasing availability of Google Street View (GSV) coverage offers additional potential ways to assess the vulnerability and resilience to such events. GSV is available at no cost, is easy to use, and is available for an increasing number of locations. This exploratory research focuses on the use of GSV and EO data to assess exposure, sensitivity, and adaptation to flooding in urban areas in the cities of Belem and Rio Branco in the Amazon region of Brazil. We present a Visual Indicator Framework for Resilience (VIFOR) to measure 45 indicators for these characteristics in 1 km2 sample areas in poor and richer districts in the two cities. The aim was to assess critically the extent to which GSV-derived information could be reliable in measuring the proposed indicators and how this new methodology could be used to measure vulnerability and resilience where official census data and statistics are not readily available. Our results show that variation in vulnerability and resilience between the rich and poor areas in both cities could be demonstrated through calibration of the chosen indicators using GSV-derived data, suggesting that this is a useful, complementary and cost-effective addition to census data and/or recent high resolution EO data. Furthermore, the GSV-linked approach used here may assist users who lack the technical skills to process raw EO data into usable information. The ready availability of insights on the vulnerability and resilience of diverse urban areas by straightforward remote sensing methods such as those developed here with GSV can provide valuable evidence for decisions on critical infrastructure investments in areas with low capacity to cope with flooding.

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“…Previous studies contain detailed maps of the extent of the flood-impacted area (CPRM/ANA/SIPAM, 2012; Andrade andSzlafsztein, 2015, 2018;Dourado, Andrade, and Carneiro, 2017). According to the Geological Survey of Brazil, there are two high-risk sectors in Santarém (CPRM/ANA/SIPAM, 2012), measuring 120 and 95 hectares.…”

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“…A diverse literature on these matters has contributed significantly to the understanding of the authors (see, for example, Adger et al, 2007;Bird, 2009;Birkmann, 2011;Birkmann et al, 2013, Okayo, Odera, andOmuterema, 2015;Islam et al, 2018;Lechowska, 2018;Wang et al, 2018). Some studies have focused on coastal zone municipalities in the Amazon region of Brazil (Szlafsztein, Sterr, and Lara, 2006;Szlafsztein and Sterr, 2007;Mansur et al, 2018), concentrating on risk perceptions and mapping and adaptive capacity with regard to vulnerability reduction (Andrade andSzlafsztein, 2015, 2018).…”

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Coping and adaptation strategies and institutional perceptions of hydrological risk in an urban Amazonian city

Andrade

Szlafsztein

2020

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This paper investigates coping and adaptation strategies and institutional perceptions of hydrological risk at the local scale in Santarém, an Amazonian city in the state of Pará, Brazil. Methods and tools of analysis encompassed secondary data, field observations, and qualitative techniques (focus‐group discussions and in‐depth interviews). Stakeholders from affected neighbourhoods describe their means of coping with and adapting to flooding, focusing on purposefulness, type of initiative and investment, risk timing, temporal and spatial scope, and performance. The results comprise an inventory of 16 mostly structural measures. The perceptions of six institutions of general responses to flooding are presented as opinions on actions that reduce the effects of such events, individual strategies and collective community endeavours in at‐risk areas, and the activities of the public and private sectors to manage floods. Understanding of coping and adaptation strategies and knowledge of institutional flood risk perceptions can benefit the implementation of risk and disaster reduction policies and practices.

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Flood Risk Mapping in the Amazon

Cited by 9 publications

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Avaliação Postural Computadorizada Em Pacientes Portadores Da Fibrose Cística Em Um Centro De Referência Em Salvador-Ba

Avaliação Postural Computadorizada Em Pacientes Portadores Da Fibrose Cística Em Um Centro De Referência Em Salvador-Ba

Assessing Urban Vulnerability to Flooding: A Framework to Measure Resilience Using Remote Sensing Approaches

Coping and adaptation strategies and institutional perceptions of hydrological risk in an urban Amazonian city

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