Capacidade de resiliência urbana às inundações no Bairro da Liberdade

Abstract

This Final Graduation Paper presents a study on the capacity of urban resilience to the coastal floods, in an area of Liberdade neighborhood, in São Luís, Maranhão. It addresses the concepts of urban resilience and examples of the international and national context. As a highlight the urban infrastructure and the phenomenon of coastal floods, applied in an area in the neighborhood of Liberdade that was a mangrove and was grounded. This situation is repeated in several areas in the city of São Luís. The paper presents examples of cities with resilient practices and urban infrastructures planned to be resilient in cases of coastal flooding. These examples emphasize practices that can contribute to the preparation of cities to meet such future conditions, as predicted by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). The mangrove ecosystem, in particular, is highly vulnerable to flooding and should be impacted by rising sea levels due to climate change. Thematic maps with surveys and analysis have allowed the evaluation of the effects of flooding by sea level rise and the verification of the lack of urban resilience in this specific space against the simulated flood scenarios.