Avaliação do plano de estrutura urbana como ferramenta de redução de vulnerabilidade às mudanças climáticas no Município de Inhambane: caso dos bairros Josina Machel e Nhamua

Abstract

World society is experiencing a time of severe socio-environmental crisis, exacerbated by the uncertainties of climate change. This crisis warns of the profound vulnerability of socioeconomic systems. In order to achieve the objectives of this work, data collection techniques were applied, notably bibliographical research, which made it possible to obtain relevant information for the theme from various published literary works containing data/information that support the information that was obtained, the semi-structured interview that allowed obtaining information from the interviewees, who answered freely using their own language and expressing opinions through a questionnaire that was previously elaborated and direct observation, which allowed the obtaining and exhaustive interpretation of the information, having been characterized for a period of intense social interactions between the researcher and the investigated. For the analysis and interpretation of data, the descriptive research method was applied, which enabled the description and systematization of the characteristics of the phenomena, establishing a relationship between CMs and coastal erosion and flooding. This procedure made it possible to know that the frequent climatic hazards in the Nhamua and Josina Machel neighborhoods (study area) are, respectively, flooding and coastal erosion, which result from MCs that cause the rise in sea level and anthropogenic activities. These factors, combined with the absence of specific AMC measures for the climate hazards raised, make the two neighborhoods vulnerable to the action of MCs. Nevertheless, the 2013 PEU of the municipality of Inhambane is a promising plan with regard to the development of the local urban structure, as it projects a transport network (air, road, pedestrian), provides access to public infrastructure to citizens in all neighbourhoods, orders activities in areas according to legal instruments and environmental sustainability and reclassifies urban and semi-urban areas with poor infrastructure and at risk. However, this plan fails to present AMC actions in view of the persistent climatic hazards that occur in the municipality (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)