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Urban Flooding in Brazil

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Editors:
  1. Francisco Mendonça

    1. Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil

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  2. Ariadne Farias

    1. Higher Institute of Business and Economics (ISAE), Curitiba, Brazil

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  3. Elaiz Buffon

    1. Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil

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  • Presents an integrated vision of urban socio-environmental issues for flood scenarios
  • Offers case studies from Brazil that are applicable to global contexts
  • Features practical advice on mapping flood risk in a changing climate

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Urban Flooding: Conceptions and Approaches in the Scope of Global Climate Changes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Urban Floodings: Conceptions and Challenges in the Scope of Global Climate Change – A Look at the City of São Paulo, Brazil

      • Francisco Mendonça
      Pages 3-20

    3. Intra-urban Spatial Configuration and Hydrological Responses Spatially Distributed in Basins: Contributions to a Sustainable Development

      • Juliana Wilse Landolfi Teixeira de Carvalho, Irani dos Santos
      Pages 21-37

    4. Blue-Green Infrastructure in Brazilian Cities: From Consensus to Specific Advances

      • Demian da Silveira Barcellos, Clovis Ultramari
      Pages 39-62

    5. Local-Scale Disaster Risk Indicators: Applying the Disaster Risk Indicators in Brazil (Drib) Method to Understand Flood Risks in Brazil

      • Lutiane Queiroz de Almeida, Elza Edimara Soares da Silva, Francisca L. Sousa de Oliveira, Dyego Freitas Rocha
      Pages 63-81

  3. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-84
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    2. Urban Climate Risk: Flooding Events in Rio De Janeiro (RJ) from the Perspective of Vulnerable People

      • Antonio Carlos da Silva Oscar Júnior, Ana Maria de Paiva Macedo Brandão, Luisa Pilar Marques Martins, Rafaela Torres de Almeida
      Pages 85-106

    3. Urban Flooding in the City of Belo Horizonte, Southeastern Brazil

      • Wellington Lopes Assis, Antônio Pereira Magalhães Junior, Frederico Wagner de Azevedo Lopes
      Pages 107-132

    4. Rainfall Impacts and (Re)Production of Urban Space in the City of Salvador, Northeastern Brazil: An Update

      • Paulo Cesar Zangalli Júnior, Denise Silva Magalhães, Neyde Maria Santos Gonçalves
      Pages 133-149

    5. Urban Flooding in Fortaleza, Northeastern Brazil: Current and Future Risks and Challenges

      • Maria Elisa Zanella, Jander Barbosa Monteiro, Joao Luís Sampaio Olímpio
      Pages 151-170

    6. Flood Events in the City of Recife, Northeastern Brazil: History and Contemporary Risks

      • Ranyére Silva Nóbrega, Cristiana Duarte Coutinho, Anderson Pereira Lino, Lucas Suassuna de Albuquerque Wanderley
      Pages 171-192

    7. Urban Faces of Climate and Floods in Aracaju, Northeastern Brazil

      • Josefa Eliane Santana de Siqueira Pinto, Max Anjos, João Luiz Santana Brazil
      Pages 193-208

    8. Urban Flooding in Manaus, Northern Brazil: Extreme Events, Susceptibility, and Inequalities

      • Natacha Cíntia Regina Aleixo, Marcela Beleza de Castro, João Cândido André da Silva Neto
      Pages 209-230

    9. Urban Flooding in Porto Velho: Infrastructure, Regulatory, and Socio-environmental Conditions

      • Rafael Rodrigues da Franca, Marco Bruno Xavier Valadão, Fabiana Piontekowski Ribeiro
      Pages 231-247

    10. Urban Flooding in the City of Goiânia, Central-Western Brazil

      • Gislaine Cristina Luiz, Patrícia de Araújo Romão
      Pages 249-274

    11. Geographic Analysis of Flooding in the Urban Area of the Federal District, Brazil

      • Ercília Torres Steinke, Valdir Adilson Steinke, Rafael Rodrigues da Franca
      Pages 275-295

    12. Flood Events in the Metropolitan Region of Curitiba, Southern Brazil: An Approach from the Urban Environmental System

      • Elaiz Buffon, Gabriela Goudard
      Pages 297-317

    13. Urban Climate and Flooding in Florianópolis, Southern Brazil

      • Lindberg Nascimento Júnior, Geisa Silveira da Rocha
      Pages 319-336

  4. Part III

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 337-338
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About this book

This contributed volume analyzes flooding scenarios in Brazilian cities using a geographic and spatiotemporal approach to explore impacts and ways to mitigate future disasters. The problem of urban flooding is growing in Brazilian cities due to the increasing number of natural disasters in the context of global climate change; this is a topic that poses challenges to urban planners and academics. Through three sections, this volume offers theoretical-conceptual, methodological and technical case studies, as well as cases that explore urban socio-environmental problems associated with flooding. Throughout the book, the concepts of risk, vulnerability and adaptation are used to explore future flood scenarios in Brazil.


The integrated vision offered in this volume covers the floods themselves, evaluation of flood impacts, and the management process before, during, and after the flood event. The case studies presented here elucidate the concept of comprehensive urban flood management, offering a technical and diagnostic basis for the problem in different cities in Brazil. The present and future challenges presented by these chapters offer widely-transferable lessons that can be applied to making cities around the world more sustainable and disaster-resilient.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil

    Francisco Mendonça

  • Higher Institute of Business and Economics (ISAE), Curitiba, Brazil

    Ariadne Farias

  • Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil

    Elaiz Buffon

About the editors

Francisco Mendonça. Doctor in Geography at São Paulo University (USP). Pos-doctor in Urban Climate (Université de Sorbonne/Paris, Université de Haute Bretagne/France and Universidad de Chile) and Climate and health (London School of Hygine and Tropical Medecine). Teacher at Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) and State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). He was president of ABClima (Brazilian Association of Climatology), AIC (International Association of Climatology) and member of CoC-UGI (Commission of Climatology – International Geographical Union). Member of Scientific Committee of CEMADEN – Brazilian Center for Prevention of Natural Disasters.

Ariadne Farias. Doctor in Environment and Development from the Federal University of Paraná (PPGMade/UFPR), professor and researcher in the Postgraduate Program in Governance and Sustainability (PPGS/Professional Master's), at the Mercosur Institute of Administration and Economics (ISAE/Curitiba). She is a volunteer at theCivil Defense and Protection Coordination of the state of Paraná (CEPDEC/PR). 



Elaiz Buffon. Doctor in Geography at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR). From 2014 to 2020, she was a researcher at UFPR’S Climatology Laboratory (Laboclima). She is currently a post-doctoral researcher in the Urban Management program at the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (PUCPR). 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Urban Flooding in Brazil

  • Editors: Francisco Mendonça, Ariadne Farias, Elaiz Buffon

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20898-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-20897-3Published: 25 April 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-20900-0Published: 26 April 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-20898-0Published: 24 April 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 436

  • Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 194 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Natural Hazards, Sustainable Development, Public Policy, Water, general

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