Abstract
With global environmental crisis, the intensification of inadequate occupation of the most fragile environments, the precariousness of socioeconomic conditions of vulnerable social groups and the perception of occurrence intensification of natural disasters pointed out questions related to vulnerabilities and risks in our contemporary society. The growing of crises, in association with the number of victims and damages, has generated the need to comprehend the conditions to the emergence of crisis and to the identification of territories most vulnerable to risks. The objective of this manuscript is demonstrate how the environmental fragility and social vulnerability are combined on susceptibility to risks. It aims to show the efficiency of the investigative approaches through procedures and techniques applied to definition of susceptibility to risks in urban environments. Results pointed out that through the comprehension of relations between environmental fragility and social vulnerability if possible to identify the most vulnerable territories to risk.
Key words:
Environmental Fragility; Social vulnerability; Environmental risks
