Áreas vulneráveis em zona urbana: o caso da rua Prado Omena em Branquinha, Alagoas

Abstract

The socio-environmental risks derive from irregular occupations in environments with greater environmental fragility. In this sense, there search listed here proposed to analyze a street in the urban area ofthe city of Branquinha, Alagoas. In the last decades, Prado Omena street has seen the intensification of erosive processes (mass slides) and floods. These phenomen are sult mainly from the excess water coming from the rains, there lief conditions, the shape of the basin, the dynamics of rain fall runoff, soil impermeability, the removal of vegetation cover, etc. In this sense, researching this street was of great value, because we hope that, with the results achieved, agencies, public managers and  the population in general will be aware of the incidence of the se environmental risks. The method, Tricart Ecodynamics (1977) was the reference. The methodology, Field activities were carried out, interviews with residents and applicationof 10 questionnaires. The final result of there search was to be able to construct a graph to facilitate the um derstanding ofthe socio-environmental situation of the residents and the confection of the map-synthesis of the are a of mass slides and flooding as unstable are a sof the research.