Flooding over the last few years has become the most frequent and devastating of the natural disasters. This has accounted for approximately half of the death-rate and a third of economic losses as a result of weather-related events. Though these flooding events affect many cities across the globe, it is often the less fortunate who are disproportionately impacted by such events. There are many factors as to why this is the unfortunate case, with a high number of the underprivileged urban population finding themselves living in informal settlements. These settlements are often developed on environmentally-fragile land on steep sites or floodplains and lack the adequate waste and drainage systems that control the flow of water, further aggravating the flood risk within these areas. These uneven hardships are no different to Cape Town metropolitan region. Flooding has become an annual recurrence for the city during the wet winter months between May and September, with the informal settlements in the Cape Flats low-lying area bearing the brunt of this impact. The research therefore aims to explore how integrated flood control design within urban development can contribute to creating social and environmental sustainable interventions for flood resilience in informal settlements within the Cape Town municipality. One of the most important findings was the strong relation between waste as one of the largest contributors to the flooding events in these settlements, which became a key driver for investigation within the research. Kosovo informal settlement is one of the hardest hit communities during Cape Town’s high rainfall winter seasons and will used as the case study area for the research. The objective of the study is to investigate the existing condition and the involved stakeholders to develop well thought design strategies and toolbox for the municipality, planners, and residents. The design strategies and toolbox provides mechanisms to rethink flood prevention measures by shifting from creating barriers [interrupt], to mechanisms that engage with floodwater [interact] within a case study area. This research has attempted to position the community at the centre. Community participation and collaboration with key stakeholders will allow the residents to contribute with their local knowledge, experience and voices, sharing their views on the design solutions that are required to be integrated into their spaces.

[pt] Desde a formação da cidade do Rio de Janeiro o saneamento sempre foi uma questão crítica para o processo de urbanização e até hoje os espaços, como as favelas, sofrem de graves problemas no que diz respeito a esse serviço. A tese em questão tem como objetivo investigar a relação entre as injustiças ambientais produzidas por essas desigualdades espaciais e as soluções trazidas pela mobilização comunitária para o acesso ao saneamento, aproximando o olhar para a favela de Nova Holanda, no conjunto de favelas da Maré. A pesquisa traz evidências a partir de dados coletados por entrevistas e observação participante sobre o papel dos moradores e de organizações da sociedade civil na reivindicação de direitos não garantidos pelo poder público na área do saneamento básico. Pressupõe-se que as injustiças ambientais são consequência dessa estrutura social comandada por atributos raciais determinados que privilegiam historicamente uma parcela da população. Ao evidenciar essa relação é possível pensar em processos de tomadas de decisão e participação popular que abarque a diversidade identitária como papel fundador de narrativas que incluam os moradores como sujeitos de direitos. / [en] Since the formation of the city of Rio de Janeiro sanitation has always been a critical issue for the urbanization process and until today marginalized regions such as favelas suffer from serious problems regarding this service. The thesis in question aims to investigate the relationship between the environmental injustices produced by these spatial inequalities and the solutions brought about through social mobilization, taking a closer look at the Nova Holanda slum, in the Maré group of favelas. The research brings evidence from data collected through interviews and participant observation about the role of residents and civil society organizations in claiming rights not guaranteed by the government in basic sanitation. It is assumed that environmental injustices are a consequence of this social structure commanded by certain racial attributes that historically privilege a portion of the population. By highlighting this relationship, it is possible to think of decision-making processes and popular participation that embrace identity diversity as a founding role in narratives that include residents as subjects of rights.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T18:15:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jailton Aparecido Rodrigues.pdf: 3116283 bytes, checksum: 4260ef91c350721989553adad70faf3e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-10-21 / The purpose of this research was the Barueri-Santana de Parnaíba (São Paulo State) Alphaville, the first Closed Horizontal Condominium (CHF, in Portuguese) in Brazil. Alphaville was the theme for studying concepts related to spatial segregation to better understand the urban restructuring. This research also is addressed to school teachers and students and teachers of undergraduate courses in Geography to contribute to debate on teaching of discipline. This work was divided into two sections: the first was a review of theoretical literature on the subject; the second involved practical activities for elementary school students on the theme of CHF as an aid in understanding some fundamental concepts of Geography and concepts related to socio-spatial inequality, closely related to the subject / O objeto de estudo desta pesquisa foi o Alphaville de Barueri-Santana de Parnaíba (SP), primeiro Condomínio Horizontal Fechado (CHF) do país. O Alphaville foi o tema para estudar conceitos relacionados à segregação socioespacial para compreender melhor a reestruturação urbana. Esta pesquisa também se dirigiu a professores da educação básica e a alunos e professores dos cursos de licenciatura em Geografia para contribuir com o debate sobre o ensino da Disciplina. A obra dividiu-se em duas seções: a primeira que foi uma revisão bibliográfica teórica sobre o tema; a segunda envolveu atividades práticas para alunos do ensino básico sob o tema dos CHF como auxíliona compreensão de alguns conceitos fundamentais de Geografiae conceitosrelacionados à desigualdade socioespacial, intimamente ligadosao tema

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