Socio-environmental vulnerability in the São Paulo Macro-metropolis' three main metropolitan regions

A Socio-Environmental Indicators Analysis Indicators Analysis

Bibliographic Data

ID4817254
AuthorsHumberto Prates Da Fonseca Alves (0000-0003-2420-5249, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume24
Publication date2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmbiente & sociedade (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1414-753X • E-ISSN: 1809-4422
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1809-4422asoc20200030r2vu2021l1ao
OpenAlexW3156318889
SCIELO_PIDS1414-753X2021000100301
LanguageIT
References cited10

In this article, the concept of socio-environmental vulnerability is empirically operationalized, with the objective of analyzing situations of socio-environmental vulnerability on intra-urban scale, in a group of 62 municipalities in the three main metropolitan regions of the Macro-metropolis of São Paulo State. The methodology associates two concepts from the recent literature on vulnerability - one social and the other physical-environmental - through an index that integrates socio-demographic indicators from the 2010 Demographic Census with cartographies of areas susceptible to floods and landslides. The results show that 1.8 million people live in areas with high socio-environmental vulnerability that have significantly worse socioeconomic conditions than areas with low and moderate vulnerability, especially regarding the differences in sewage coverage, in the surroundings of households and in the population living in substandard settlements (slums

Environmental planning · Geography · Human settlement · Metropolitan area · Operationalization · Population · Psychological resilience · Social vulnerability · Socioeconomic status · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Demography · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Development and Societal Issues

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