Natural hazards and society a study case in Braga municipalities

Abstract

The growing threats that face nowadays society lead us to look at safety also by its environmental point of view. To the new threats, we connect new risk s, fears and anguishes. It's upon this context that, after enquiring a Braga County population sample, one has aimed to evaluate the risk assessment level, and particularly the natural risk perception level of these people. For most of the people enquired, the Lamaçães case, has resulted in a fairly good example in as the definitions of development strategies for Braga county should also take into consideration the natural risk assessment issue.