Avaliação de propostas de candidatos a prefeitos em relação aos riscos de desastres naturais / Evaluation of proposals of candidates for mayors to the risks of natural disasters

Abstract

Government plans are documents created by candidates to the mayor position in Brazilian municipalities, including goals to be achieved during their term. This work performs an analysis of candidates' plans for municipalities which are monitored by Cemaden - Brazilian Centre for Monitoring and Warnings of natural Disasters - for Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo states. Themes directly related to the community vulnerability and disasters were considered, such as risk areas, Civil Defense, Management Plan and basic sanitation. There was little attention from candidates to those themes, concerning official documents and answers to this work's survey. As many municipalities have historical disaster records and vulnerable population, the candidates behavior does not match the problems they will have to deal with. There was more attention to those themes in municipalities with recent occurrence of disasters, such as Petrópolis, Teresópolis and Nova Friburgo.

Keywords

• Government Plans; Natural Disasters; Civil Defense