Culture of risk and collective security in Brazil: the vulnerability socioespatial downstream Itaipu Binational

Authors

  • Érico Soriano Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Bolsista do CNPq
  • Norma F. L S. Valencio Departamento de Sociologia da Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-7723_18_9

Keywords:

Risk, disaster, dams, society of risk, expert systems.

Abstract

We live in a society that is based on a culture of risk, that the condition in which the risk is not accepted and/or disclosed for the majority of the population. To meet this risk culture, emerged a culture of safety to deal with the new risks arising on account of progress ultimately govern the normality of modern social life. A social production of risk in Brazil is the production of dams, especially large hydropower projects. This work will build on the risks associated with HPP Itaipu Binational and vulnerability of people downstream.

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Published

2011-07-29

Issue

No. 18 (2011): Affirming the Cindinics Sciences

Section

Articles

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