Natural risks in the Brazilian tropical region

Authors

  • José Bueno Conti Professor Titular do Departamento de Geografia da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo (USP).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-7723_9_7

Keywords:

Tropical, rain, inundation, desertification.

Abstract

This paper brings a tropical environment and its peculiarities, followed by some examples of events related to the amount of rain in the Brazilian territory. It shows some catastrophic happenings of inundation that occurred in Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and in mountainous Iands, besides of showing risks of desertification in the semiarid zone.

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Published

2002-09-15

Issue

No. 9 (2002)

Section

Articles

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