RECOLHIMENTO DE CRITÉRIOS DE VULNERABILIDADE TERRITORIAL NA REGIÃO DE CORUMBÁ (MS)

Abstract

This monograph explores the concept of Territorial Vulnerability (TV), understood as the presence of elements that can generate or disseminate risks, disrupting the functioning and development of a territory. The study highlights that, although the concept traditionally applied to natural disasters, conflicts, and extreme phenomena such as hurricanes and tsunamis, it currently also encompasses socioeconomic, political, and environmental spheres. The proposed methodology uses the regional context of Corumbá and the Pantanal region of Mato Grosso do Sul – a region with a notorious history of forest fires – and establishes three dimensions of TV analysis, based on the exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity components of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): the Physical/Natural dimension (susceptibility to catastrophes), the Social/Economic dimension (social and economic conditions that affect population vulnerability and contribute to TV), and the Political/Institutional dimension (the role of institutions in management and mitigation). The study concludes that it is crucial to identify the points of greatest vulnerability in conjunction with the local population, in order to guide public policies and government actions. Furthermore, it argues for the importance of fieldwork to gather VT criteria and the participation and collaboration of the settled and riverside population in defining and exercising social control.