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Box 11.5 Strengthening capacities for disaster risk management in Brazil

Within only 70 years, Brazil went from being around 30 per cent to 84 per cent urban. This rapid urbanization process has been characterized by highly unequal urban development and land use. Real estate speculation has largely excluded low-income households from existing and new residential areas, obliging them to informally occupy areas that were outside of the formal land market. This led to a social construction of disaster risk over time. A number of Brazil’s metropolitan areas, including Salvador, So Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, together contain more than one million informal households. Of those households, almost 60 per cent are located on moderate and steep slopes (Figure 11.7).

Figure 11.7 Informal households situated on moderate and steep slopes in selected Brazilian cities

(Source: UNISDR with 2010 data from IBGE.8)

	223 Box 11.5 Strengthening capacities for disaster risk management in Brazil Within only 70 years, Brazil went from being around 30 per cent to 84 per cent urban. This rapid urbanization process has been characterized by highly unequal urban development and land use. Real estate speculation has largely excluded low-income households from existing and new residential areas, obliging them to informally occupy areas that were outside of the formal land market. This led to a social construction of disaster risk over time. A number of Brazil’s metropolitan areas, including Salvador, So Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, together contain more than one million informal households. Of those households, almost 60 per cent are located on moderate and steep slopes (Figure 11.7). Figure 11.7 Informal households situated on moderate and steep slopes in selected Brazilian cities (Source: UNISDR with 2010 data from IBGE.8)	Page 1 Page 10 Page 20 Page 30 Page 40 Page 50 Page 60 Page 70 Page 80 Page 90 Page 100 Page 110 Page 120 Page 130 Page 140 Page 150 Page 160 Page 170 Page 180 Page 190 Page 200 Page 210 Page 213 Page 214 Page 215 Page 216 Page 217 Page 218 Page 219 Page 220 Page 221 Page 222 Page 223 Page 224 ->Page 225 Page 226 Page 227 Page 228 Page 229 Page 230 Page 231 Page 232 Page 233 Page 234 Page 235 Page 236 Page 237 Page 240 Page 250 Page 260 Page 270 Page 280 Page 290 Page 300 Page 310