The mass displacement of people is a global phenomenon, inherent in human nature and the needfor survival. Over the last 30 years, Greece became a destination country for differentpopulations. Although the last wave of displacement people, starting from 2015, found Greece inan unstable economic situation due to the economic crisis. Since 2015, Greece has been facingthe two types of crises: economic and refugee. The refugee crisis found Greece, like many otherEU countries, unprepared for the number of people that they received. As well, for Greece therefugee crisis can be viewed as a crisis of legitimacy and strategies.During the last five years, Greece made significant steps in the regulation of the refugeesituation, especially after the EU-Turkey agreement in March 2016, when Greece officiallybecame a country of destination from a transit country. However, the laws and ministerialdecisions instead of decreasing the residential segregation led to an increase of socialsegregation. This paradox can be observed in the case of the Athenian municipality.This paradox defined the starting point of this thesis and aimed for the investigation of spatialand social segregation in the center of Athens. To study this theme qualitative data werecollected for analysis, including, semi-structured interviews, analysis of official documents, andobservation.The funding of this thesis illustrates that Greece never lost its status as a transit country. And thatthe biggest challenge that Athenian municipality is facing is the integration of refugees in Greeksociety. The undeveloped integration section shows significant distancing between Greeks andrefugees.

Orientador: Roberto Braga / Resumo: O crescimento das cidades brasileiras se caracteriza por um planejamento urbano que privilegia interesses econômicos descompromissados com a sustentabilidade e qualidade de vida o que acarreta a construção de um tecido urbano gerador de problemas ambientais e sociais. O crônico déficit habitacional brasileiro tem gerado soluções que, via de regra, acentuam problemas sociais, segregando ao invés de integrar as comunidades de menor renda. Em janeiro de 2012 a reintegração de posse do Pinheirinho, na região sul de São José dos Campos, área ilegalmente ocupada durante sete anos por uma comunidade com centenas de famílias, teve repercussão nacional em função do número de removidos e das denúncias do uso excessivo da força policial. Cinco anos após a reintegração de posse, em dezembro de 2016, 1461 famílias envolvidas no episódio foram reassentadas no Residencial Pinheirinho dos Palmares 2 especialmente construído para a comunidade. A presente pesquisa avaliou os níveis de sustentabilidade da forma urbana do bairro onde as famílias foram reassentadas, utilizando o método proposto por Teriman (2012) adaptado às especificidades locais por meio de 45 indicadores agrupados nas 7 categorias de design da forma urbana sustentável apresentadas por Jabareen (2006): compacidade, transporte urbano sustentável, densidade, uso misto da terra, diversidade, design solar passivo e greening. Os resultados da avaliação comprovaram a hipótese de baixo desempenho em sustentabilidade da forma urbana in... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The growth of Brazilian cities is characterized by a urban planning that privileges economic interests that are not committed to sustainability and quality of life, which entails the construction of an urban fabric that generates environmental and social problems. The chronic Brazilian housing deficit has generated solutions that, as a rule, accentuate social problems, segregating instead of integrating lower income communities. In January 2012, the removal of more than a thousand invading families from an area known as Pinheirinho in the southern region of São José dos Campos had a national repercussion due to the large number of displaced families and the reports of excessive use of the police force. After five years, in December 2016, 1461 families involved in the episode were resettled in a neighborhood specially built for this community. This research evaluated the sustainability levels of the urban form of the neighborhood where families were resettled, using the method of Teriman (2012) adapted to local specificities through 45 indicators grouped in the 7 categories of design of sustainable urban form proposed by Jabareen (2006): compactness, sustainable urban transport, density, mixed land use, diversity, passive solar design and greening. The results of the evaluation confirmed the hypothesis of poor performance of urban form sustainability, influenced mainly by the distant location of the center and the isolation of the neighborhood.. / Doutor

La nuit ainsi que la favela sont des termes chargés d’ambiguïté, de discours contradictoires et de fantasmes qui imprègnent notre imaginaire. La nuit s’associe à la convivialité, à l’inspiration, à la fête. Mais à côté de la ville lumière, la nuit conserve sa part d’ombre, qui fonde un imaginaire collectif empreint de peurs susceptibles de renforcer les stigmates d'un territoire indésirable : la favela. Au regard de la conception et d’usages de l’espace urbain de Rio de Janeiro, les connaissances paraissent faibles concernant l’impact réel des actions menées en matière d’éclairage, sur la qualification, la perception et l’identité de la ville nocturne. Les mécanismes susceptibles de stimuler la ségrégation, ainsi que la fusion de différents espaces de la ville selon l’accès ou pas aux services d’éclairage public sont inconnus. L’originalité de ce travail réside dans l’analyse des enjeux sociaux de la lumière, pour comprendre la fragmentation urbaine. Un élément remarquable du paysage carioca est la distribution hétérogène des points lumineux dans le tissu urbain. La ségrégation de proximité entre quartiers et favelas, ont suscité chez nous des réflexions sur le rôle de la lumière comme indicateur de justice ou marqueur d’injustice dans l’espace urbain. C’est dans ce contexte que nous avons initié notre recherche, en nous centrant sur la question sociale, sur les effets des actions d’éclairage distinctes entre les beaux quartiers et les favelas, et sur la manière dont différentes populations les interprètent, les perçoivent, et les vivent. A partir d’analyses de cas des quartiers de Botafogo, Copacabana et Ipanema, ainsi que des favelas Santa Marta, Cantagalo et Pavão-Pavãozinho, nous procédons à l’analyse de la ségrégation de proximité et sur le rôle social de la lumière. La représentation d'opposition entre la lumière/l’ombre, le bien/le mal, s'emmêlent dans l'identification et l'expression des représentations de la nuit urbaine. Ces conflits et la complexité du paysage urbain nocturne de Rio en font un sujet singulier. / The night and the favela are complimentary when talking about of ambiguity, contradictory discourses and fantasies that pervade our imagination. The night is associated itself with usability, inspiration and party. But, next to the city of light, the night shows its dark side, which is based on a collective imagination, full of fears which strengthen the stigma of an undesirable territory: the favela. In relation to the design and uses of urban space in Rio de Janeiro, knowledge appears incomplete when analyzing the real impact of actions carried out in terms of lighting, the qualification, the perception and the identity of the city by night. The mechanisms that can stimulate the segregation and merge different spaces in the city, according of access or not to the public lighting services, are unknown. The originality of this work relies on the analysis of social issues of light, to understand urban fragmentation. A remarkable feature of the carioca landscape is the heterogeneous distribution of the points of light in the urban landscape. The proximity between neighborhoods and favelas, have prompted reflections on the role of the light as justice indicator or marker of injustice in the urban space. In this context we initiated our research by focusing on the social question, the lighting effects of distinct actions between the wealthy neighborhoods and favelas, and how different individuals interpret, perceive and live there. From the case analysis of neighborhoods of Botafogo, Copacabana and Ipanema, as well the favelas Santa Marta, Cantagalo and Pavão-Pavãozinho, we proceeded to analyze the segregation of proximity and the social role of the light. The representation of opposition between light/shadow, good/bad, becomes entangled in the identification and representative expressions of urban night. These embedded conflicts and the complexity of the urban landscape make the whole a singular subject.

This study aims to analyze the emergence and evaluation of a new type of suburbanization in T&uuml / rkiye, which are concomitant with the rise of new middle class having a high purchasing power. It examines different urbanization and suburbanization processes in various societies and demonstrates that the suburbanization of T&uuml / rkiye does not exactly fit in these models. Such a suburban expansion is taking place under the prevailing impact of political economy in the world and leads to a social segregation within metropolitan areas, which is argued to become permanent. Upper middle class have developed privatized, enclosed, and monitored exclusive spaces of residence, work, leisure, and consumption. The main focus of the study, therefore, is the gated communities, which is the last extension of suburbanization. In this thesis, the gated communities are mainly residential in character and offer a new concept of life-style, which is based upon the idea of total security and retreat from the illnesses of the urban core in terms of noise, dust, disorder, crowds and related issues. It is argued that, in the specific case of Angora Evleri-Kooperatif-18, gated communities can be viewed as a further theme of fragmentation of the city of Ankara. The new urban fragmentation indicates a dual process of increasing social and spatial polarization on the urban land. These dualities have been identified in society. One part of the society has experienced affluence, and success while the other has suffered degradation. The economic growth has been at the expense of sharp increases both at the top and bottom ends of the income distribution. Social inequality, in return, has manifested itself spatially.

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2017-09-18T11:29:44Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1022889 bytes, checksum: 05470214e42460f5db2845bb9c11dc6e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-18T11:29:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1022889 bytes, checksum: 05470214e42460f5db2845bb9c11dc6e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-07-29 / The object of this study is to stablish an analysis of punitive racism in Brazil correlating it with a symbolic construction of the criminal law of the enemy generated from the studies concerning power relations by Michel Foucault. The aim of this study is to carry out an analysis of Brazil‟s punitive system, indicating that there is a selectivity of criminal punishment, especially directed against those considered dangerous by society, converting this individual into a public enemy and revealing a symbolic construction of a criminal opponent in the Brazilian context. Faucauldian‟s theories of power and racism of rights were analysed based on research from other authors who support the theory of the existence of a racist punitive structure in Brazil, besides the opposition of those who deny this possibility. Biopolitics and its new means of power are criticised, which generate racism of rights that are performed in forms of criminal polices through the discourse of social defense. The study identified that the country cultivates a cultural construction of delinquency and there is a disrespect to Human Rights in the face of the selective applicability of punishment. Other than association of social condition and the colour of the skin that encourages inequalities in the application of criminal law, there is a greater attention to social distinction of those who have already committed a crime as a way of preventing future crimes. It is concluded that Brazilian society imposes identities, marginalizing those designated as negative and that could put in risk its organization, basing punitive racism and authorizing it as a simplifying or “segregating” instrument of rights and social relations existing in a contemporary society. / O presente trabalho tem por objeto estabelecer uma análise do racismo punitivo no Brasil. Correlacionando-o com a construção simbólica do direito penal do inimigo, a partir dos estudos acerca das relações de poder feitos por Michel Foucault. O objetivo do trabalho é a realização de uma análise do sistema punitivo no Brasil, demostrando que há uma seletividade na punição penal, direcionada, principalmente, contra aqueles que a sociedade considera perigosos, transformando esses indivíduos em inimigos sociais, revelando a construção simbólica de um inimigo penal no contexto brasileiro. Foram analisadas as teorias Foucaultianas de poder e racismo de direitos, apoiada na pesquisa de outros autores que defendem a teoria da existência de uma estrutura punitiva racista no Brasil, além da contraposição daqueles que negam essa possibilidade. Critica-se a Biopolítica e suas novas formas de poder, as quais geram o racismo de direitos, que se apresenta em forma de políticas criminais, por intermédio do discurso de defesa social. O trabalho identificou que o país cultiva uma construção cultural da delinquência e há desrespeito aos Direitos Humanos diante da aplicabilidade seletiva da punição. Para além da associação da condição social e da cor da pele, que estimulam desigualdades na aplicação da norma penal, há um cuidado maior de separação social daqueles que já cometeram algum delito como uma forma de prevenção quanto a futuros crimes. Conclui-se que a sociedade brasileira impõe identidades, marginalizando aquelas designadas como negativas e que podem pôr em risco sua organização, fundamentando um racismo punitivo e o autorizando como instrumento simplificador ou “segregador” de direitos e das relações sociais presentes na sociedade contemporânea.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T13:57:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JoaoBCJ.pdf: 2743964 bytes, checksum: 8e8ea3efa0dba0255b7f69d35207e7af (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-05-19 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / This work aims to understand the spatial organization in the Town of Macau, State of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. This approach focus on bringing back the history of the town, the main personages responsible for the construction of this place, denominated "social agents", as well as its social processes and the spatial forms derived from them. As the personages and their practices were identified, it was found out the existence of a driving force for structuring, interlocking, and maintaining the actions carried out by the social agents during the time. Such actions were materialized in the urban space: "the social segregation". The social segregation takes place as a specific geography of domination. The outcome of those owning the best areas" and ways of accessibility in the urban space, varies from the enrichment by property valorization, because of the concentration of public investments of infrastructure, to the comfort of easily reaching all the daily needs related to the displacements in the urban space. In the latter case, such facility has contributed to improve life quality. While one takes advantage of the location in the urban space, others are negatively affected by the same process. This research identified the salina worker as the weakest element of this social structure, occupying the urban periphery of the town of Macau. Such area is characterized by the lack of services and urban equipment in opposition to the center of the town, the locus of elite. This way, it is established the most known segregation pattern: center x periphery, in which the space acts as a mechanism of segregation / Este trabalho tem como objetivo compreender a organiza??o espacial da cidade de Macau-RN. Sua abordagem enfoca a partir de um resgate da hist?ria da cidade, os principais personagens respons?veis pela constru??o deste lugar, chamados de agentes sociais , assim como, seus processos sociais e as formas espaciais decorrentes destes processos. Uma vez identificados os personagens e suas pr?ticas, constatou-se a exist?ncia de uma for?a vital para a estrutura??o, articula??o e manuten??o das a??es engendradas ao longo do tempo por estes agentes sociais, materializadas no espa?o urbano: a segrega??o social . A segrega??o social no espa?o urbano configura-se como uma geografia espec?fica de domina??o. Os frutos colhidos por aqueles que possuem as melhores localiza??es e condi??es de acessibilidade no espa?o urbano variam desde o enriquecimento pr?prio com a valoriza??o de seus patrim?nios a partir da concentra??o de investimentos p?blicos de infra-estrutura, ? comodidade de ter a seu f?cil alcance todas as necessidades cotidianas relacionadas aos deslocamentos no espa?o urbano contribuindo para a otimiza??o da qualidade de vida. Se existem aqueles que se beneficiam com a localiza??o no espa?o urbano, h?, ao mesmo tempo e pelo mesmo processo, aqueles que s?o prejudicados. A pesquisa identificou o salineiro como o elemento mais fraco desta estrutura social, ocupando a periferia urbana da cidade de Macau, caracterizada pela car?ncia de servi?os e equipamentos urbanos em oposi??o ao Centro da cidade, locus da elite, estabelecendo o mais conhecido padr?o de segrega??o: centro x periferia, onde o espa?o atua como um mecanismo de segrega??o

Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T12:19:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ediliane Lopes Leite de Figueiredo.pdf: 830524 bytes, checksum: a9f58620094a52112e71ad43127a8e37 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05-06 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Working from the justice and literature perspective this research focuses on the theme of social segregation in Uncle Tom s Cabin (1852) - the Portuguese translation Cabana do Pai Tomás is used for references - by American novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe and Capitães da Areia, 1937 written by Brazilian novelist Jorge Amado. Comparing works from different periods, cultures, and languages help in promoting interrelationship and also in intensifying the interaction between literature and law which has been the objective of this interdisciplinary research. This work presents the contextual relationship and forms of interaction that can be established between two apparently distant fields literature and law. The discussion shows that the theme of social segregation visible by racial and class division in both American and Brazilian literary works is well encompasses through the decadent social injustice focused in both works. To compare these two works we chose comparative theory and discursive mode of Law in Literature as our theoretical base, that shows how Law and State ignore the minority or oppressed groups. / Trabalhando com a perspectiva direito e literatura, esta pesquisa aborda o tema segregação social nas obras Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) - a tradução portuguesa A Cabana do Pai Tomás é usada como referência da romancista americana Harriet Beecher Stowe e Capitães da Areia (1937), do romancista brasileiro Jorge Amado. Comparar obras de diferentes períodos, culturas e línguas, como forma de ajudar a promover a interrelação e intensificar a interação entre a literatura e o direito, é objetivo desta pesquisa interdisciplinar. Este trabalho apresenta a relação contextual e as formas de interação que podem ser estabelecidas entre esses dois campos aparentemente distantes: literatura direito. A discussão revela a segregação social, visível pela divisão de raças e de classes nas sociedades americana e brasileira, como fator desencadeante da injustiça social. Como base teórica para este estudo, usamos a teoria comparativa, aliada à teoria da corrente Direito na Literatura, explorando a linha discursiva que mostra como o Direito e o Estado ignoram as minorias ou grupos oprimidos.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T10:49:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GERMANA DE FARIA ARANTES.pdf: 19212865 bytes, checksum: 53015a0a69fca6241554801f6f16d587 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-03-14 / Many strategic urban areas are degraded or abandoned, without a use or subuse, and they begin to contribute to a new image of the city when rehabilitated. However, with capitalist consideration and the insertion of neo-liberalism principles, it became normal in the practice of urban interventions to transform daily reality into scenes of a spectacle; making cities into goods to be consumed by a selected portion of society. Such interventions are now embedded in political discourses and practices of entrepreneurs, which aim economic success through the improved urban environment. To this end speculation is involved in all phases of the process, prompting and reinforcing the effects produced by these interventions. Gentrification and social exclusion are some of the consequences that occur when the government is an ally or became negligent in the face of actions against the private sector. In the city of Goiania two cases of rehabilitation in idle areas and the referred bilateral joint interests have occurred. Therefore the present study is based on two interventions - Vaca Brava and the Flamboyant parks - both in Goiania. / Muitas áreas urbanas localizadas em pontos estratégicos encontram-se degradadas ou abandonadas, sem utilidade ou subutilizadas e, quando reabilitadas, passam a contribuir para a imagem da cidade.Porém, com a consolidação do capitalismo e a inserção dos princípios neoliberais, tornou-se habitual a prática de intervenções urbanas com o objetivo de transformar a realidade cotidiana em cenários de um espetáculo, tornando as cidades em mercadorias a serem consumidas por uma seleta parcela da sociedade.Tais intervenções encontram-se hoje inseridas em discursos políticos e práticas empreendedoras, que visam o sucesso econômico por meio do melhoramento urbano. Assim, a especulação imobiliária atua em todas as fases do processo, induzindo e consolidando os efeitos gerados por essas intervenções. Gentrificação e exclusão social são consequências certas quando o poder público é aliado ou torna-se omisso diante das ações do setor privado. Nesta pesquisa, utilizaram-se duas intervenções na cidade de Goiânia os parques Vaca Brava e Flamboyant como estudo de caso.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-19T18:20:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Janaina de Oliveira Chagas.pdf: 3346970 bytes, checksum: 5cb5df793f75dfdebdba452ae8ef9205 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-11-19 / FUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA E AO DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTIFICO E TECNOLÓGICO DO MARANHÃO / The environmental and social issues have no longer been left over when the subject has to do with the urbanization management. Indeed, the natural resources, as public goods, and the human resources valorization have been quickly introduced in human needs group under individual appropriation point of view. The urban occupation and expansion process historically reflects the behavior of the society involved with it. On the other hand, the cities shows, express by their urban sites configurations, an expansion model in default of any planning process. The cities expansion creates an enlargement movement of the urbanized areas on the border environment that is not always appropriated to support them. There is a disagreement and social inequalities generation, agent and consequence of the urban segregation, an environment stress areas and risk for human life as well. Even though it is a very easy process to identify in big cities mainly by the slums appearing it has been observed as a consolidate process of occupation and expansion in small cities. This research reports the urban expansion scenario of Anajatuba and Pinheiro municipal districts that integrates of the Baixada Maranhense and their social and environmental consequences. It was developed from a survey involving environmental, economical and social variables that accounted for the expansion of Anajatuba and Pinheiro municipal districts and the survey of the profile of each municipal district construction as well. It has been also utilized digital mapping techniques on the area that allowed the visualization closed and intersection points between the districts areas and natural flooded areas. The date analysis allowed the construction some occupation scenarios taking into account the main environmental local changes, the different urban soil applications and their social consequences. In addition the date analysis subsidized the discussion on the urban-environmental sustainability of the municipal districts studied. / As dimensões ambiental e social há muito deixaram de ser consideradas insignificantes para a gestão do espaço urbano, visto que o capital natural, bem de uso comum, e a valorização do capital humano vêm aceleradamente sendo introduzidos no grupo das necessidades humanas sob a ótica da apropriação individual. O processo de ocupação e expansão urbana reflete historicamente o comportamento da sociedade a que abriga. Em contrapartida as cidades exprimem, através de sua configuração em seus sítios urbanos, um modelo de crescimento à revelia de qualquer processo de planejamento. A expansão das cidades cria um movimento de dilatação das áreas urbanizadas sobre os ambientes de entorno, nem sempre adequados para abrigá-las. Há a geração de conflitos e desigualdades sociais, causa e conseqüência da segregação urbana, além de áreas de tensão ambiental e risco para a vida humana. Embora seja um processo facilmente identificável nos grandes centros urbanos, principalmente pelo surgimento de áreas de invasão e favelas, este se consolidou em um modelo de ocupação e expansão que se reproduz em sítios urbanos em escalas regionais e municipais. Esta pesquisa retrata o cenário de expansão urbana dos sítios urbanos dos municípios de Anajatuba e Pinheiro, integrantes da Baixada Maranhense, e suas implicações sociais e ambientais. Foi desenvolvido a partir do levantamento de variáveis sociais, econômicas e ambientais que permearam e contribuíram para a expansão destes sítios, bem como do levantamento de campo do perfil construtivo de cada sítio estudado, associado à zona urbana em que se localiza. Também foram utilizadas técnicas de mapeamento digital do terreno, que permitiram a visualização dos pontos de aproximação e interseção entre ambiente urbano construído e as áreas naturais inundáveis, característica da Baixada Maranhense. A análise e associação dos dados levantados permitiram a construção de cenários de ocupação, levando em consideração as principais alterações ao meio ambiente local, as potencialidades de uso do solo urbano e suas conseqüências sociais, além de subsidiarem a discussão sobre a sustentabilidade urbano-ambiental dos sítios estudados.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:00:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissJQB.pdf: 5149396 bytes, checksum: 18f319148c3d9512b4dbca810e39ae4e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-05-26 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / The present work proposes a debate that interrelates three areas of knowledge urbanization, urban drainage and social segregation and has the main purpose to analyze the occupation of river marginal areas in urban places as the main cause for temporary social segregation. It also proposes a discussion about this impact caused by the occurrence of floods. The research strategy used is the study of an exploratory single case made in the city of São Carlos-SP, more specifically in the central area belonging to the Gregório River Basin, characterized for having solid occupation with great commercial activity. Besides theoretical basis, we have done a research on how many floods have occurred during 1995 and 2005, in the works fulfilled by the City Government, and also interviews with five groups of social actors. The results obtained with the conclusion of the work had, in its greatest parts, a social and educational value, involving consciousness of the necessity of environment preservation; of the eventually irreversible damages caused by the occupation of environmentally fragile areas, such as floodable fertile valleys. The research has also been detached as a relevant instrument to subsidize new debates and researches. As far as the social actors are included, we have verified that the most damaged ones in the cases of floods, in the unity of analysis, were the businessmen, and 70% of these consider themselves victims of temporary social segregation. This way, it was possible to confirm the main hypothesis of the work: temporary social segregation can be considered a consequence of inadequate occupation of river marginal areas in urban places, and this may involve lots of situations, including the ones that do not refer to the condition of poverty and misery. / A presente pesquisa se insere em um debate que inter-relaciona três áreas de conhecimento urbanização, drenagem urbana e exclusão social e tem como objetivo principal analisar a ocupação de fundos de vale em áreas urbanas como agente indutor da exclusão social temporária, propondo uma discussão sobre esse impacto causado pela ocorrência de inundações. A estratégia de pesquisa utilizada é a de estudo de caso único exploratório realizado na cidade de São Carlos SP, mais especificamente, na região central pertencente à Bacia do Córrego do Gregório, caracterizada por possuir ocupação consolidada, com grande atividade comercial. Além do embasamento teórico, foram realizados levantamentos das inundações ocorridas no período entre 1995 a 2005, das obras realizadas pela Prefeitura Municipal e também, entrevistas com cinco grupos de atores sociais. Os resultados obtidos com a conclusão da pesquisa foram, em grande parte, de valor social e educacional, envolvendo a conscientização com relação à necessidade da preservação ambiental; aos danos causados - muitas vezes irreversíveis - pela ocupação de áreas ambientalmente frágeis, como as várzeas inundáveis e, também se configurou como instrumento relevante para subsidiar novas pesquisas e debates. Com relação aos atores sociais, verificou-se que os maiores prejudicados com as inundações na unidade de análise são os comerciantes e 70% desses, se consideraram vítimas da exclusão social temporária. Nesse sentido, foi possível comprovar a hipótese principal de pesquisa: A exclusão social temporária pode ser considerada uma conseqüência da ocupação inadequada das áreas urbanas de fundo de vale, podendo abranger inúmeras situações, inclusive as que não se referem à condição de pobreza e miséria.