Climate as risk, cities as vulnerable systems, health as promotion of life

Abstract

This article aims to contribute to the theoretical discussion about the relationship between climate and the urban space in a geographical perspective that proposes the possibility of considering the urban climate as a social construction. Why not has the capacity to handle major disasters for a variety of limitations, humanity has chosen to resign themselves to accepting vulnerability to events of great magnitude. Cities, as produced spaces at the same time create civilization opportunities also become trapped environment. If the city is the home of modern, if urban systems is highly complex and uneven, and if the urban atmosphere is the product of interaction between climate variables and socioeconomic interventions, then the various social groups do not experience or relate to urban weather and climate of the same way. In this perspective, one has to admit that the urban climate can be interpreted as a social construction.