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O poder público tem a finalidade de definir a instalação de equipamentos urbanos comunitários por meio do ordenamento territorial. Entretanto, o rápido crescimento da população, aliado à falta de planejamento das cidades, não permite que essas demandas sejam adequadamente atendidas. Um problema mal avaliado resulta em uma ação falha de resposta perante desastres. Um exemplo é em Curitiba, onde muitos equipamentos urbanos, como unidades de saúde e escolas, situam-se em áreas atingidas por inundações. O objetivo deste artigo é destacar e avaliar situações de conflitos sociais e políticos envolvidos na problemática. A metodologia se baseia na análise de leis, documentos oficiais, mapeamentos e relatórios de ocorrência da defesa civil. Concluiu-se que além de tornar as comunidades vulneráveis, o tempo de inatividade do serviço prestado e os danos materiais aos bens públicos causam prejuízos significativos. A pesquisa apresenta como a instalação de equipamentos urbanos em locais de desacordo as normas, inutilizam locais estratégicos do município, principalmente para ações emergenciais de resposta em caso de desastres.

The present project is part of a planning study for structuring resilience in disaster risk reduction in cities. The objective of the article is to evaluate the capacity of municipal managers in terms of preparation for the occurrence of disasters. The article opted for an exploratory study, with the application of 10 interviews with specialists in risk management and disaster protection and civil defense. Ten municipalities were adopted in Paraná, in the south of Brazil, which had critical occurrences recorded between August/2016 and August/2017: hailstorms, storm tides (floods), runoffs and gale. The article provides how different municipalities deal with disaster preparedness, with a clear need for greater social and cultural involvement in their activities. Each municipality has its own characteristics in risk and disaster management. Therefore, researchers are encouraged to apply the methodology in other cities in Paraná. The document includes implications for the development of indicators that allow public managers to monitor risk and disaster management in communities, minimizing the negative impacts suffered by the local population. The document includes implications for the development of indicators for the other risk and disaster management stages. This document addresses a need identified in Brazil to study how municipal managers deal with preparation for extreme events, which are increasingly common in their cities.

Knowing the main factors that influence the degree of flood risk perception of the various actors of an urban system is fundamental to enable behavioral changes and the development of more effective measures to reduce risk and preparedness in the face of the occurrence of a flood. This research aims to evaluate the factors that influence the degree of perception of flood risk in the promotion of assertive actions for adaptation and mitigation of climate change. The methodology involves a systematic review of the literature as a research technique. The studies highlight a trend that respondents with older age, more experience of flooding, higher awareness, lower monthly income, lower schooling and less confidence in the government presented greater perception of risk. In addition, they indicate significant deficiencies in current understandings, highlighting the scarcity of evidence for the relationship between risk perceptions and mitigation behavior, and a failure to make use of theoretical structures in research. It is suggested as a strategy in risk management that it should be adapted to different population groups, considering the characteristics and needs of each of them.