Improving Climate Resilience of Federal Road Network in Brazil
Although Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world, it has a relatively low number of natural hazards. However, its exposure to natural hazards has increased relative to other countries because of insufficient preventive actions in the past,...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/585621562945895470/Improving-Climate-Resilience-of-Federal-Road-Network-in-Brazil http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32189 |
| Summary: | Although Brazil is the fifth largest
country in the world, it has a relatively low number of
natural hazards. However, its exposure to natural hazards
has increased relative to other countries because of
insufficient preventive actions in the past, resulting in
more damage from natural hazards to both infrastructure and
human lives than countries of comparable size would incur.
Brazil faces an increasing risk of natural disasters, in
particular floods and landslides. The objective of the study
is to strengthen capacity of geohazard disaster resilience
of federal highway infrastructure in Brazil through
reviewing disaster risk management (DRM) capacity for
federal road infrastructure and case studies of applying
innovative methodologies for assessing disaster risk and
evaluating economic benefits of resilience countermeasures.
Although floods and landslides are the most recurrent
natural disasters in Brazil, this report focuses on the
latter, leaving floods for future studies. This report
carefully describes how three innovative methodologies that,
if properly applied, could improve the effectiveness of
landslide risk management, thus reducing economic and human
impacts. The report begins with diagnostics of the
institutional capacities of geohazard risk management at the
federal government level in Brazil. Chapters 1 and 2 include
the backgrounds of natural disasters, road systems, and
geohazards on roads in Brazil and a review of the road
geohazard risk management with overviews of the following
areas: institutional capacity and coordination, system
planning, engineering designs, operation and maintenance,
nonstructural measures, and contingency programming. Then,
Chapters 3 and 4 describe the case study of application of
the three innovative DRM assessment methodologies. Finally,
Chapter 5 shows the suggestions and recommendations for the
next steps. |
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