Questão 31 - UFPel PAVE - Etapa 3 2021

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GOVERNMENTS FOLLOWS SAME LOGIC TO ADDRESS COVID-19 AND CLIMATE-RELATED DISASTERS, STUDY SHOWS

 

    By Maria Fernanda Ziegler | Agência FAPESP — There is a correlation between dealing with COVID­19
and environmental disasters, and it is a negative one. A study conducted by a Brazilian scientist shows that the
problem is due to both underinvestment and a lack of urban development policies to reduce the spatial distribution
of vulnerability.
[05]    An article on the study is published in Sustainable Cities and Society. The author is Andrea Young, a researcher

at the National Disaster Surveillance and Early Warning Center (CEMADEN) in Brazil. The study was
supported by FAPESP.

    Young began by comparing the Brazilian cities most affected by natural disasters such as drought, flooding
and landslides, with the cities most affected by COVID­19. “The 45 cities most affected by natural disasters in the

[10] last ten years are the same ones that have suffered most from the pandemic in terms of numbers of cases and deaths,”
she told Agência FAPESP. “Given that the cities most affected by environmental disasters and COVID­19 coincide,
and that they are vulnerable owing to a lack of green areas, access to healthcare and sanitation, there’s an urgent need
to improve _____ deficient infrastructure.”

    The front­ranking cities in terms of both natural disasters and the impact of the pandemic were São Paulo,

[15] with 38,770 COVID­19 deaths in 2020, Rio de Janeiro, with 34,102, and Belo Horizonte, with 6,636. While acknowledging      

that investment in civil defense reduced the number of disasters in some cities compared with previous

years, Young drew attention to the number of COVID­19 deaths in Campinas, the largest city in São Paulo

State after the capital, with more than 4,000 deaths, Santo André and São Bernardo in metropolitan São Paulo and

São Gonçalo in metropolitan Rio de Janeiro, with more than 3,000 each, and important port cities such as Santos

[20] (São Paulo) and Joinville (Santa Catarina), with 2,000 deaths each.

Referência: https://agencia.fapesp.br/governments­follows­same­logic­to­address­covid­19­and­climate­related­disasters­studyshows/37743/. Acesso em: 28/02/2022.

    De acordo com o texto, no quesito “desastres naturais” e “impacto da pandemia”, as cidades que ocupam o topo do ranking são, respectivamente,