Open AccessRiscos ambientais e geografia: conceituações, abordagens e escalas
Author(s) -
Cleber Marques de Castro,
Maria Naíse de Oliveira Peixoto,
Gisela Aquino Pires do Rio
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
anuário do instituto de geociências
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.202
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1982-3908
pISSN - 0101-9759
DOI - 10.11137/2005_2_11-30
Subject(s) - geography , everyday life , epistemology , philosophy
The article deals with the relationships between environmental risk and Geography, discussing the categories involved in environmental risk, the evaluation methods and spatial dimensions. It is suggested that the environmental risk must be thought as a structured approach in the spatial and temporal scales and related to the everyday life in the cities.