Teses em 2014

Ruling climate change at the local level: Risks and policy responses

Author: Fabiana Barbi
Advisor: Leila da Costa Ferreira
Coadvisor: Carlos Alfredo Joly
Thesis defended in: 17/02/2014
Banking: Gabriela Marques Di Giulio, Mateus Batistella, Roberto Luiz do Carmo, Wagner Costa Ribeiro

The objective of this thesis is to analyze how decision makers have appropriated the risks of climate change in their local policies and integration with existing policies at different levels of governance. To analyze the internalization process of climate change risks in terms of policy responses to the problem by local governments and metropolitan, we propose an analytical framework based on four points: risks of climate change in the region; political and institutional structures to the climate issue; policy responses related to climate change and perceptions of government actors on the subject. This analytical framework was designed from the theoretical chapters and used in in-depth study in the city of Santos, in the Baixada Santista. The results showed that this region is very vulnerable to the risks of climate change and showed the existence of some government actions related to this issue in different sectors of activity on the local and metropolitan level. However, none of these actions is directly geared to deal with the risks of climate change, addressing the issue of tangential way. The risks of climate change are not being internalized by governments in terms of policy responses, although referring to these risks shares are mixed to government responses to other urban problems that have interface with the climate issue and may be exacerbated by changes in climate. In the studied area, the risks of climate change are internalized as natural hazards, that is, the policy responses are more directed to natural hazards than to climate risks, not incorporating the expected scenarios of climate changes in government responses. The risks of climate change are products of own development processes of contemporary societies. This implies the questioning of these processes. And this, climate policy or related to climate change presented in this thesis are far from achieving, that is, they do not go to the crux of the problem, but are configured as palliatives that allow you to maintain the same standards of development known so far: polluters and emitters of greenhouse gases.

Keywords: riscos; política climática; mitigação; adaptação; cidades costeiras.