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■■ Organize and coordinate SINDEC throughout Brazil. This system has an operating structure based on several bodies with different areas of responsibility at the national, regional, state, municipal and sectoral levels. SINDEC’s operations are funded by the Special Fund for Public Calamities (FUNCAP), the financial instrument established to deal with emergencies. Under the Federal Constitution, it can also draw on loans to handle public calamities. ANA coordinates interactions between the ministries of National Integration and the Environment, and oversees the warning system when catchment basin levels rise. It also conducts studies and programs on urban water management and flood control. Brazil also has a National Institute for Space Research (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, INPE), which, in 2008, established the Natural Disaster Surveillance and Warning System (Sistema de Monitoramento e Alerta de Desastres Naturais, SISMADEN), a geo-processing tool for overseeing, recovering, storing and processing environmental data. SISMADEN uses a large database devised by INPE’s Center for Weather Forecasts and Climate Studies (Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos, CPTEC), with information gathered from across the country. The system includes hydrometeorological and other data needed to analyze and establish early warnings. SISMADEN allows free use of its services and its data can be downloaded at no cost on the Internet. It provides access to up-to-date climate observations and forecasting data and generates mathematical models for devising risk maps of the areas selected. The population is more diverse than in any other Brazilian city. It mainly consists of descendants of Italian and Portuguese immigrants, but also has large contingents of Amerindian and African descent and others from the major Arab, German, Spanish and Japanese migration flows. In addition, São Paulo receives large numbers of migrants from other parts of Brazil, particularly the north and northeast regions. Although no national and regional statistics are kept on the places of origin and destination of emigrants from the Drought Polygon, research by the Population Studies Unit (Núcleo de Estudos Populacionais, NEPO) of the University of Campinas (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP) indicates that almost 40 percent of the population in atrisk areas (slums or favelas) of São Paulo city are from the northeast region. While only 1 percent of São Paulo residents (71,840) in 1970 lived in favelas, many located near rivers and streams, by 2008, the figure had soared to 13 percent (1,395,000). See Table 4.4. Table 4.4. Population in Favelas in the City of São Paulo (1970-2008) Decade Population in favelas Total population of São Paulo Percent 1970 71,840 6,560,547 1 1980 375,023 8,558,841 4 1990 891,673 9,644,122 9 2000 1,160,597 10,338,196 11 2008 1,395,000 10,886,518 13 Source: Archives of the Secretaria de Habitação da Prefeitura Municipal de São Paulo. The favelas contain practically all those exposed to flooding, especially in the rainy season. Map 4.3 shows the location of the city’s at-risk areas. B. The City of São Paulo The case study focuses on the second phase of the Stream Canalization Program (Programa de Canalização de Vales, PROCAV) in São Paulo, the largest city in Brazil, which covers 1,509 km 2 and has 10.9 million inhabitants, or almost 10 percent of the country’s population. 1. Disaster Risk Management 1.1 Institutional Organization The Civil Defense System of São Paulo reports to the Municipal Secretariat of Urban Security (Secretaria Municipal de Segurança Urbana), whose activities are governed by the Ministry of National Integration (Ministério da Integração Nacional) within the SINDEC. 46 Preventive Resettlement of Populations at Risk of Disaster: Experiences from Latin America
Map 4.3. At-risk Areas in São Paulo The system also includes community civil defense units (NUDEC), associations formed by representatives chosen by the community and trained by the Civil Defense offices and whose task, among others, is to inform CODDEC of any flood and mudslide hazards. 1.2 Civil Defense Prevention Plan A principal tool to prevent or reduce risk in the municipalities is the Civil Defense Prevention Plan (Plano Preventivo de Defesa Civil, PPDC) approved by each city council. It is designed to help those in settlements on slopes and next to streams deal with the risks—depending on the severity of the problem and given the impossibility of eliminating those risks, at least in the short term. The PPDC concept is based on taking preventive actions before mudslides occur. The methods include (a) keeping at-risk area data current, (b) ensuring that the criteria and technical parameters of the plans are tailored to each municipality’s specific circumstances and (c) training municipal technical teams. The PPDC system has a four-tier structure (observation, upkeep, alert and maximum alert), each with its own procedures. Source: Instituto Geográfico Militar (IGM) y Dirección Nacional de Protección Civil. The municipal civil defense system includes all the organs and entities of direct and indirect municipal public administration, private entities and the community, and are guided by the Coordinator General of the Municipal Civil Defense Coordination Office (Coordenadorias Municipais de Defesa Civil, COMDEC). Each of the 31 subdivisions of the Mayor’s Office (subalcaldías) has a district-level Civil Defense Coordination Office (Coordenadoria Distrital de Defesa Civil, CODDEC), whose activities are controlled by COMDEC. COMDEC prepares detailed plans about the actions to be taken and who will carry them out. They include Operation Summer Rains, Operation Winter, Operation Low Humidity, and Operation Dangerous Products. 1.3 Flood Control Programs In addition to the Civil Defense Prevention Plan, São Paulo has major flood control programs. In particular, they include: (a) increasing the depth of the Tietê river bed; (b) intervening in geological risk areas; (c) urbanization of favelas (i.e., slum upgrading); and (d) stream canalization. Flood control infrastructure in the Tietê River Basin The Tietê River is the most important river in the state of São Paulo, since it crosses almost the entire state and is approximately 1,150 km long. It used to be highly polluted and full of sediment, a factor contributing to flooding. Starting in 1995, the state and city of São Paulo conducted joint works in this river basin to stem flooding and improve water quality. They involved broadening the Tietê River bed to up to 45 meters and increasing its depth by 2.5 meters, constructing dams and reservoirs, Chapter 4 Changes in the Quality of Life for People in High Risk Areas | Brazil | 47
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