tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59337140729451189522024-03-04T22:40:50.465-08:00Gestão e Avaliação de Risco AmbientalRenata Marson T. Andrade, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087840659589092698noreply@blogger.comBlogger182125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933714072945118952.post-85895490646123608982011-10-24T12:33:00.000-07:002011-10-24T12:52:25.800-07:00Riscos Ambientais e Produtos Perigosos - Seminário 27 e 28 de outubro 2011<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaLH7T3ijNQc5piPK60xheQzyEwZZHZ9bvVg7gv4YnRE3mK65Dea6ERQJG8h-AUXfNBh15BGo6du4XXRKCRtolAYTqQbUvCShAjmtSmF0YLKiCOhMp8mlI6R4V5VXxXYn9RQ3UkTeaeR7s/s1600/00002496.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 229px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaLH7T3ijNQc5piPK60xheQzyEwZZHZ9bvVg7gv4YnRE3mK65Dea6ERQJG8h-AUXfNBh15BGo6du4XXRKCRtolAYTqQbUvCShAjmtSmF0YLKiCOhMp8mlI6R4V5VXxXYn9RQ3UkTeaeR7s/s320/00002496.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667144565770583666" border="0" /></a>Renata Marson T. Andrade, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087840659589092698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933714072945118952.post-7431679255293261512011-10-21T17:56:00.000-07:002011-10-21T17:57:15.049-07:00Risco de encefalite na India - epidemia<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; font-size: 13px; "><h1 class="story-header" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 34px; margin-top: 3px; margin-right: -160px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 2.461em; clear: both; position: relative; width: 623px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -1px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; ">India encephalitis outbreak kills 400, mainly children</h1><span class="byline" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; display: block; position: relative; margin-top: -1px; margin-right: -160px; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 216, 216); "><span class="byline-name" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; font-size: 1.231em; font-weight: bold; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; display: block; padding-bottom: 2px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">By Soutik Biswas</span><span class="byline-title" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; ">BBC News, Delhi</span></span><div class="caption body-narrow-width" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; position: relative; clear: both; float: right; display: inline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: -160px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 16px; "><img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/55984000/jpg/_55984789_medical-college-ke-encephal.jpg" width="304" height="171" alt="Children suffering from viral encephalitis in a Gorakhpur hospital" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; -webkit-user-select: none; position: relative; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; " /><span style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; display: block; width: 304px; ">Viral encephalitis has killed hundreds of children in Uttar Pradesh over the last decade</span></div><div class="story-feature related narrow" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; position: relative; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: -160px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 16px; width: 144px; float: right; display: inline; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; clear: right; "><a class="hidden" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-15269441#story_continues_1" style="color: rgb(31, 79, 130); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; position: absolute; top: -5000px; left: -5000px; ">Continue reading the main story</a><h2 style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 11px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.231em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(216, 216, 216); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 216, 216); font-weight: bold; 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"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13852963" style="color: rgb(31, 79, 130); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; ">India 'mystery illness' kills 28</a></li><li style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; text-rendering: auto; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8217453.stm" style="color: rgb(31, 79, 130); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; ">Encephalitis kills 200 in India</a></li><li style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; text-rendering: auto; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8206074.stm" style="color: rgb(31, 79, 130); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; ">Encephalitis toll approaches 130</a></li></ul></div><p class="introduction" id="story_continues_1" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; font-weight: bold; ">More than 400 people, mainly children, have died in an outbreak of viral encephalitis in northern India, health officials say.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">So far 2,300 patients have been admitted to a hospital in the affected Gorakhpur area of Uttar Pradesh state.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">A doctor told the BBC that it was a "tragedy beyond imagination", with children dying every day.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">Nearly 6,000 children have died of encephalitis in the hospital since the first case was detected in 1978.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">Most of the deaths this year have happened since July, doctors say.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">The disease occurs regularly during the monsoon in the Gorakhpur region bordering Nepal in the foothills of the Himalayas.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">The low-lying areas are prone to floods, providing a breeding ground for mosquitoes which commonly transmit the virus.</p><span class="cross-head" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; display: block; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.231em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; ">'Tragedy'</span><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">Doctors say affected patients come from 10-12 districts in the region, and are mostly poor.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">Until 2005, the majority of deaths were caused by Japanese encephalitis, caused by a mosquito-borne virus, doctors say.</p><div class="story-feature narrow" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; position: relative; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: -160px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 16px; width: 144px; float: right; display: inline; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; clear: right; "><a class="hidden" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-15269441#story_continues_2" style="color: rgb(31, 79, 130); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; position: absolute; top: -5000px; left: -5000px; ">Continue reading the main story</a><h2 class="quote" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 6px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.231em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(216, 216, 216); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 216, 216); font-weight: bold; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-indent: -500px; background-image: url(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/view/2_0_4/cream/hi/shared/img/story_sprite.png); position: relative; clear: both; background-position: 0px -188px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">“<span style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: -5000px; ">Start Quote</span></h2><blockquote style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; float: left; display: inline; font-weight: bold; "><p class="first-child" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.231em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; clear: left; font-weight: bold; ">It is an unbelievable tragedy - children are dying every day”</p></blockquote><span class="quote-credit" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; clear: both; ">Dr KP Kushwaha</span><span class="quote-credit-title" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; clear: both; ">Pediatrician</span></div><p id="story_continues_2" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">But in the past six years, children have been dying of other forms of viral encephalitis, the exact cause of which is unclear.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">One possibility is a water-borne virus present in contaminated water, doctors say.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">The diseases cause head aches and vomiting and can lead to comas, brain dysfunctions, seizures and inflammations of the heart and kidney.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">Doctors say children between the age of six months to 15 years are worst affected and most of the victims are poor people from rural areas.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">"It is unbelievable tragedy. There are five to 10 children dying every day," Dr KP Kushwaha, head of paediatrics at the BRD Medical College, the only hospital treating patients, told the BBC.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">Most of the 370 beds in the paediatrics and medicine departments at the hospital are overflowing with more than one patient to a bed, he said.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">A fifth of the children who survive have to live with neurological weaknesses, doctors say.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">"Children are most affected because they have lower immunity and they end up consuming a lot of contaminated water at home," Dr Kushwaha said.</p><span class="cross-head" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; display: block; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.231em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; ">'Shambles'</span><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">Though the incubation period of viral encephalitis is between three and 30 days, patients are brought to the hospital from far-flung areas because of the lack of adequate healthcare in their villages.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">"The public health care system is in a shambles. And the tragedy repeats every year," said Kumar Harsh, a local journalist.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">The government says it has tried to check the regular outbreak of the encephalitis in the region.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">Two massive vaccination drives against Japanese encephalitis were carried out in Gorakhpur in 2006 and 2010, leading to a drastic decline of the disease in the area.</p><div class="caption body-narrow-width" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; position: relative; clear: both; float: right; display: inline; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: -160px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 16px; "><img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/55985000/jpg/_55985542_encephalitis304.jpg" width="304" height="171" alt="Child suffering from viral encephalitis in a Gorakhpur hospital" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; -webkit-user-select: none; position: relative; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; " /><span style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; display: block; width: 304px; ">The disease is caused by contaminated water</span></div><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">Also, people took precautions by using mosquito nets and repellents.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">But tackling other forms of viral encephalitis has proved to be tougher challenge, and controlling it will also require a vast improvement in sanitation and drinking water supply in rural areas, health officials say.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">The state government disbursed millions of rupees from a federal health programme for treatment of patients at the state-run BRD Medical College in 2009.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">Part of this money was spent in hiring 135 researchers, doctors and paramedical staff to beef up treatment.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">Most of the money ran out by August, leaving only 36 of them receiving regular salaries, say authorities.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">The encephalitis outbreak in Gorakhpur has attracted national and international attention - scientists from US-based Centers for Disease Control visited the area in 2009, and took away medical samples to examine the virus.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">In 2005, a virulent outbreak of Japanese encephalitis in Gorakhpur killed 1,000 people, mostly children. This was the worst outbreak since 1978.</p></span>Renata Marson T. Andrade, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087840659589092698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933714072945118952.post-1292835405587939942011-10-16T15:54:00.000-07:002011-10-16T16:03:25.243-07:00Semana das Nacional das Mudanças Climáticas: Universidade, Comunidade e Escola<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK1fH5dkiDXNA6LXji03uR1rE00ocdnfspskXrVoBtj4BOzWMISqy-pi3GnGxIz71NA6qh3cZKk6W6Ae7SkpgtX_qYxvUf1ui2W6lYYIf2_HZxGRossI3hjN-75QRBH9n90CDcetYJ9qEQ/s1600/semana+mudanc%25CC%25A7as+clima%25CC%2581ticas+poster+grande.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 247px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK1fH5dkiDXNA6LXji03uR1rE00ocdnfspskXrVoBtj4BOzWMISqy-pi3GnGxIz71NA6qh3cZKk6W6Ae7SkpgtX_qYxvUf1ui2W6lYYIf2_HZxGRossI3hjN-75QRBH9n90CDcetYJ9qEQ/s320/semana+mudanc%25CC%25A7as+clima%25CC%2581ticas+poster+grande.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664228258507085650" border="0" /></a><br />Caros amigos do ARA UCB,<br /><br />segue o Convite para participar da "Semana das Mudanças Climáticas, Universidade, Comunidade e Escola" que inicia no dia 15/10 com o "Curso de capacitação em tecnologias socioambientais para adaptação às mudanças climáticas" do Projeto Aclimar, e termina no 23/10 com um mutirão de limpeza e plantio de mudas regada ao show do grupo Haonobeko no Portal das Águas.<br />Vai ser oferecida uma diversificada programação de atividades que tem por objetivo criar a conscientização e a conversa sobre as mudanças climáticas em três esferas de conhecimento: cientifico, comunitário/local e educação infantil.<br /><br />Segue a programação completa abaixo.<br />Se tiverem interesse em conhecer a programação do curso de capacitação, favor enviar email para <a href="mailto:institutosalvia@gmail.com" target="_blank">institutosalvia@gmail.com</a><br />Contamos com sua participação<br /><br />um forte abraço<br />Renata<br /> <p style="margin-top:8.64pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >Semana</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > das </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >Mudanças</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >Climáticas:</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > <span></span></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >Universidade</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >, </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >Comunidade</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >e</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >Escola</span></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;font-size:44.0pt;color:maroon;" ><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >Atividade</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >da</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >Semana</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >Nacional</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > C&T, MCT</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"><br />15-23 de </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">outubro</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> de 2011</span></span> </p><p style="margin-top:8.64pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >Programação</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">:</span></span></p> <span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span></span></p> <span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >15/</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >10 - </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >Abertura</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >da</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >Semana</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" ><span> </span>das </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >Mudanças</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >Climáticas</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > </span></span></p> <span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" ><span> </span><span> </span></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >Universidade</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >, </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >Comunidade</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" ><span> </span></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >e</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >Escola</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > </span></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">8:30 -17:00 hrs – PROJETO ACLIMAR: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Curso</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> de </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Capacitação</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">em</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Tecnologias</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Socioambientais</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span></span></p> <span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"><span> </span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">para</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Adaptação</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">às</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Mudanças</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Climáticas</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Local: Instituto Oca do Sol / ISSA - </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Córrego</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> do </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Urubu</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">, </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Lago</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> Norte</span></span></p> <span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span></span></p> <span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >16/10 - </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" ><span> </span>PROJETO ACLIMAR: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">8:30 hrs– 17:30 hrs - </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Curso</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> de </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Capacitação</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">em</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Tecnologias</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Socioambientais</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span></span></p> <span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"><span> </span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">para</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Adaptação</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> as </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Mudanças</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> do </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Climáticas</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Local: ISSA/ </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Instituto Oca do Sol - Córrego</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> do </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Urubu</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">, </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Lago</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> Norte</span></span></p> <span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" ><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >18/10 – </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >Mudanças</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >Climáticas</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >na</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > UCB</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > </span></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top: 5.76pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.19in; text-align: left; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> 8</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">:00 – 12:</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">00hrs – </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Apresentação</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> de Posters, stands </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">e</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> videos </span></span></p><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"> mostra de banners no tema Mudanças Climáticas na UCB (realizadas por alunos e professores da Engenharia Ambiental, rograma de Pós-Graduação em Planejamento e Gestão ambiental, ONGs ambientais locais e internacionais), no saguão do Bloco K. Às 9 da manhã, teremos uma palestra e a participação da <span class="il">Frente</span> Parlamentar Ambientalista do DF apresentando de primeira mão a nova proposta de politica distrital de mudanças climáticas, no auditório do Bloco K. Também teremos alguns videos sobre mudança climática e lançamento do video do projeto Aclimar no auditório.</p><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Local</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">: Campus 1 – </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Taguatinga</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">14</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">:00 – 18:00hrs –</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Apresentação</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> de Posters, stands </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">e</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> videos </span></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Local: Campus 2 -<span> </span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Asa</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Norte</span></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span></span></p> <span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >19/10 – </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >Mudanças</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >Climáticas</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >na</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >Comunidade</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > </span></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Cultivando</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Plantas</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">medicianis</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">e</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">qualidade</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> de </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">vida</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Local: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Instituto</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Oca</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> do Sol</span></span></p> <span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" ><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >20/10 –</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >Mudancas</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >Climáticas</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >na</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >Escola</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >, </span></span></p> <span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top: 5.76pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.19in; text-align: left; direction: ltr;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">O cientista vai a Escola e Oficina</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">musical de </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">reciclagem,<br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Visita a nascente para medir a qualidade da água.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"></span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Plantio</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> de </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">mudas</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">e</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">horta</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">comunitária</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Local: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Escola-Classe</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Olhos</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Dágua</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">, </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Lago</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> Norte</span></span></p> <span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span></span></p> <span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >22/10 – </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" ><span> </span></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >Mudanças</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >Climáticas</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >na</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >Comunidade</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > </span></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">9-15:00 hrs</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> - </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"></span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"></span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"></span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"></span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Apresentação</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> do </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Estudo</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> de </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Diagnóstico</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> de</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Percepção</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">da</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Mudança</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> do </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Clima</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">e</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Risco</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Ambiental</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">da</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Microbacia</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> do </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Córrego</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> do </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Urubu</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Local: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">ISSA, </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Lago</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> Norte</span></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span></span></p> <span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >23/10 – </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >Mutirão</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >de </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" >Limpeza</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;" > </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">8</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">-</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">12:</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">00 hrs</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> –<span> </span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Evento</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> cultural de </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Encerramento</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> – </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Capoeira</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Aladim</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">e</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">música ao vivo do grupo Haonobeko</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Local: Portal das </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Águas</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">, e Oca do Sol </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Microbacia</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> do </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Córrego</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> do </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Urubu</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"><span> </span></span></span></p> <span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-top:5.76pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">Informações</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">acesse</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"><a href="http://semanact.mct.gov.br/index.php/content/view/4552.html" target="_blank">http://semanact.mct.gov.br/<wbr>index.php/content/view/4552.<wbr>html</a></span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">;<span> </span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"><a href="http://www.ucb.br/" target="_blank">http://www.ucb.br</a></span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;">;<span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span size="4"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"><span> </span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:maroon;"><a href="http://institutosalvia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://institutosalvia.<wbr>blogspot.com</a></span></span>Renata Marson T. Andrade, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087840659589092698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933714072945118952.post-68942624903393617582011-10-16T15:53:00.001-07:002011-10-16T15:53:51.696-07:00Semana Nacional de Prevenção de Desastres<div class="titulo"> <h4>Brasil adotará estratégia da ONU para construir cidades resilientes a desastres</h4> </div> <p><span class="Apple-style-span">A Secretaria Nacional de Defesa Civil (Sedec), do Ministério da Integração Nacional, está lançando no Brasil a campanha “Construindo Cidades Resilientes: Minha Cidade está se Preparando”, da Estratégia Internacional para Redução de Desastres (Eird), coordenada pela Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU).</span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span">A ação faz parte da 7ª Semana Nacional de Redução de Desastres, que vai acontecer entre os dias 10 a 15 de outubro. O objetivo é aumentar o grau de consciência e compromisso em torno de práticas de desenvolvimento sustentável, diminuindo as vulnerabilidades e propiciando bem estar e segurança aos cidadãos.</span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span">A construção de uma cidade resiliente, envolve 10 providências principais a serem implementadas por prefeitos e gestores públicos. Cinco delas com tem origem nas prioridades estabelecidas em 2005 pelo Marco de Ação de Hyogo (Japão), quando 168 países se comprometeram a adotar medidas para reduzir o risco de desastres até 2015.</span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span">Entre as medidas estão: a criação de programas educativos e de capacitação em escolas e comunidades locais, o cumprimento de normas sobre construção e princípios para planejamento e uso do solo, o investimentos em implantação e manutenção de infraestrutura que evitem inundações e o estabelecimento de mecanismos de organização e coordenação de ações com base na participação de comunidades e sociedade civil organizada.</span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span">A campanha define “Cidade Resiliente” como sendo aquela que tem capacidade de resistir, absorver e se recuperar de forma eficiente os efeitos de um desastre e, de maneira organizada, prevenir que vidas e bens sejam perdidos.</span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span">Um dos apelos da campanha é no sentido de mostrar que a redução de riscos e desastres ajuda na diminuição da pobreza, favorece a geração de empregos, de oportunidades comerciais e a igualdade social, além de garantir ecossistemas mais equilibrados e melhorias nas políticas de saúde e educação. </span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></p> <p class="discreet"><span class="Apple-style-span">Fonte:<br /><a class="external-link" href="http://www.integracao.gov.br/">Ministério da Integração Nacional</a></span></p>Renata Marson T. Andrade, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087840659589092698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933714072945118952.post-69022393582694868902011-09-15T18:19:00.000-07:002011-09-15T18:20:21.069-07:00Fogo em Brasília já devastou área equivalente à de 74 parques da cidade<p class="manchete"><a href="http://www2.correiobraziliense.com.br/sersustentavel/noticias.htm?id=882"><strong></strong></a><strong><a>Fogo em Brasília já devastou área equivalente à de 74 parques da cidade</a> </strong></p><p><i>13/09/2011</i></p><p>Manoela Alcântara; Thalita Lins<br />Antonio Temóteo; Lucas Tolentino<br /><br /></p><p>O fogo que atinge as reservas florestais de Brasília já devastou uma área equivalente à de 74 parques da cidade em 2011. Desde o começo do ano, foram 31,9 mil hectares, sendo 21,9 mil só nos últimos seis dias. Os focos de incêndio caíram de 40, no domingo, para 21, ontem, e estavam controlados até o início da tarde. Somente a Floresta Nacional (Flona) continuava em situação preocupante nas áreas 1 e 4, localizadas em Taguatinga e Brazlândia, respectivamente. Por volta das 15h, as chamas também atingiram a Estação Ecológica Águas Emendadas. Até então, os ambientalistas comemoravam a imunidade do local. Com o trabalho de 85 bombeiros, 20 brigadistas e o apoio do avião Hércules C-130, da Força Aérea Brasileira (FAB), as labaredas já estavam controladas três horas após o início do incêndio. Esta é a sexta área de preservação atingida deste o último dia 7.<br /><br />A maior área verde do DF é o Parque Nacional, com 30 mil hectares. Até o momento, ele não foi atingido. Ontem pela manhã, a ênfase no controle do incêndio da área 1 da Flona era justamente para evitar uma tragédia maior. “Somos divisa direta com o Parque Nacional. Intensificamos os trabalhos para que as chamas não cheguem até lá”, disse a chefe da Flona, Miriam Ferreira. Estima-se que 85% desse local tenha sido consumido pelo fogo.<br /><br />As outras reservas atingidas e sob controle atualmente são o Jardim Botânico, a Fazenda Água Limpa, da Universidade de Brasília (UnB), a Reserva da Aeronáutica e a Reserva do Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE), que juntos tiveram uma baixa de 15,4 mil hectares de área verde. Além do Parque Ecológico Ezequias Heringer, localizado no Guará, que ainda não teve o prejuízo calculado. A redução das chamas depende das chuvas, que ainda não estão previstas para este mês. Calcula-se que só no início de outubro os primeiros pingos caiam. Ontem, os termômetros marcaram 33ºC , às 15h, quando a umidade era de 14%.<br /><br />Os incêndios e os fatores climáticos mantêm o DF em estado de alerta. Porém, especialistas entrevistados pelo Correio acreditam que uma força tarefa maior deveria ser feita. Eles pedem que o estado de emergência seja decretado. “Os grandes incêndios diminuíram. Se a situação voltar a piorar, possivelmente pode ser decretado estado de emergência. Mas, por enquanto, não há indicativos”, destacou o major Alexandre Ataídes, supervisor de serviços da Defesa Civil.<br /><br /><strong>Malefícios</strong><br />De acordo com o Ph.D. em ecologia da Universidade Católica de Brasília (UCB) Genebaldo Freire, os incêndios causam danos a flora, fauna, solo, qualidade do ar e atmosfera, além de prejuízos econômicos e sociais, caso sejam contabilizados os atendimentos em hospitais públicos e as quedas de energia. “Sempre me refiro ao balanço total de perdas porque tudo isso poderia ser evitado caso a sociedade fosse sensibilizada. Não falo de conscientização, mas de o governo mostrar o que as queimas de lixo e os incêndios criminosos podem causar”, ressaltou Freire. Para ele, não há outra explicação para as atuais grandes queimadas além da ação humana. “São pessoas que querem se vingar de alguma iniciativa do governo ou por vandalismo. É um misto de ignorância e analfabetismo ambiental, pois esses atos prejudicarão diretamente a sociedade”, complementou.<br /><br />As suspeitas de que as queimadas sejam criminosas já foram levantadas pelo Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação e Biodiversidade (ICMBio), do Ministério do Meio Ambiente. Na tarde de ontem , o presidente do instituto, Rômulo Mello, encaminhou ofício à Polícia Federal denunciando a ação humana no incêndio da Floresta Nacional. A suspeita é de que chacareiros que estão parcelando terras na reserva queriam se vingar da administração por ter derrubado algumas casas em construção.<br /><br />De acordo com a geógrafa e coordenadora do Fórum de ONGs ambientalistas do DF, Mara Moscoso, os grileiros estariam ateando fogo na mata para poder ocupar a área. “Cerca de 90% dessas reservas são protegidas por lei federal ou estadual. No caso da Flona, a legislação permite a habitação e esses moradores podem estar prejudicando o local”, disse. Essa é a maior tragédia da história da Floresta Nacional. Até agora 6,5 mil hectares dos quase 10 mil da reserva foram destruídos pelo fogo.<br /><br />A ação dos incendiários provoca males como a fumaça, e a fuga de animais e insetos para as regiões urbanas. “O maior dano será aos animais de baixa mobilidade como o tamanduá, os lagartos, os sapos, as cobras, além de ninhos de aves e outros. Com a morte dos bichos, todo o controle do ecossistema se perde. Será quando a população vai reclamar do aumento de mosquitos e da invasão de escorpiões em casas. Desregula tudo”, ressaltou Genebaldo. </p>Renata Marson T. Andrade, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087840659589092698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933714072945118952.post-45094979197904545312011-09-15T18:13:00.000-07:002011-09-15T18:14:39.272-07:00Risco a saude devido a seca<p class="manchete"><a href="http://www2.correiobraziliense.com.br/sersustentavel/noticias.htm?id=894"><strong>Brasiliense lota hospitais e consumo de água é recorde</strong></a></p><p><i>14/09/2011</i></p><p>Antonio Temóteo<br /></p><p>A forte onda de calor e a baixa umidade registradas no Distrito Federal nos últimos três meses representaram um aumento significativo no consumo de água nas casas dos brasilienses. A Companhia de Saneamento Ambiental do DF (Caesb) também verificou gastos recordes nos últimos dias. O sistema local da empresa tem a capacidade de oferecer até 8,5 mil litros por segundo e, pela primeira vez, recebeu uma demanda de 8,4 mil litros, 98,8% de toda produção. Apesar do uso excessivo, a companhia desconsidera a possibilidade de racionamento ou falta de água.<br /><br />O diretor de Operação e Manutenção da Caesb, Acylino José dos Santos, explica que a demanda média anual de água no DF é de 7,5 mil litros por segundo. Segundo Santos, o período de seca, que já dura 97 dias, tem sido responsável pelo aumento no consumo e, por isso, é necessário que a população evite desperdiçar água. O diretor detalhou que regiões abastecidas por poços artesianos têm sido afetadas com a falta de recursos hídricos, mas esses problemas são pontuais e supridos com caminhões pipa. “Essa situação chamou a atenção da Caesb. Pedimos aos brasilienses que tenham um consumo mais moderado. Para isso, é necessário evitar desperdícios, como lavagem de carro, molhar telhado e tomar banhos demorados. A atitude é preventiva, de alerta e não de alarde”, acrescentou.<br /><br />A seca também tem afetado as principais fontes de abastecimento do DF. O Rio Descoberto, responsável por 70% dos recursos hídricos que chegam às casas dos brasilienses, está três metros abaixo do nível normal. Apesar da queda, Santos avalia que não há diminuição nos níveis de produção e a bacia de Santa Maria, dentro do Parque Nacional, fonte de outros 15% da água produzida pela Caesb, está em pleno funcionamento.</p>De acordo com Santos, serão implantados novos sistemas de produção de água no Lago Paranoá, na sub-bacia do Bananal, e em Corumbá 4, este construído em parceria com a Saneago, empresa de saneamento de Goiás. Anunciado em 2009, o projeto de explorar o Lago Paranoá terá recursos do Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento (PAC), do governo federal, e custará R$ 350 milhões. A previsão é de que o sistema esteja pronto até 2015 e atinja a produção de 3,8 m³ (3.800 litros) por segundo até 2025.<br /><br />A adaptação da Barragem de Corumbá 4 para o abastecimento de água está orçada em R$ 290 milhões, valor que será repartido entre DF e Goiás. A perspectiva é de que a unidade contribua com um volume de 2,8m³ por segundo e esteja em funcionamento até o fim de 2013. A unidade do Bananal, localizada na região do Lago Norte, tem capacidade menor — de 750 litros de água por segundo — e é avaliada pela Caesb como uma ferramenta para folgar a medida entre oferta e procura. O sistema deve entrar em produção no início de 2012.<br /><br /><strong>Hábitos</strong><br />Na avaliação de Paulo Sérgio Salles, ecólogo e professor da Universidade de Brasília (UnB), a escassez de água no DF é um problema crônico e alertado por especialistas há anos. Segundo Salles, as alternativas para a falta de recursos hídricos são poucas e dependem da mudança de costumes da população. “Todos precisam se preocupar em não poluir e preservar as bacias. Essa mentalidade precisa ser absorvida pela população e pelos setores produtivos. Atualmente, as crianças são sensibilizadas na escola e esse processo tem de continuar”, destacou. O professor também ressaltou que 70% da água utilizada no DF está diretamente ligada a atividades produtivas, principalmente para irrigação. Apesar disso, ele pondera que novos mecanismos para reduzir o consumo têm sido adotados por produtores rurais.<br /><br /><strong>Cuidados</strong><br />Apesar dos elevados níveis de consumo nos últimos meses, os brasilienses também têm tomado cuidado para não desperdiçar água. A aposentada Aparecida Azevedo, 55 anos, reaproveita toda a água que usa na lavagem de roupas para limpar a garagem e molhar parte das plantas da casa em que mora no Cruzeiro. Para isso, ela armazena todo o líquido em um galão de 100 litros. Além disso, Aparecida utiliza equipamentos que liberam o vapor da água a fim de lavar o piso. “Passei 30 dias sem usar a máquina porque sei que preciso economizar. Minha casa tem 11 cômodos e pago à Caesb R$ 85 por mês. Minha faxineira quer pedir demissão porque regulo o consumo”, contou.<br /><br />O servidor público Rodrigo Gonçalves Virgínio, 35 anos, também se preocupa até na hora de lavar o carro. Morador do Cruzeiro, Virgínio usa uma bomba elétrica, baldes e panos para evitar o desperdício. “Não deixo a torneira aberta e enxáguo o carro apenas depois de ensaboar todas as partes. Aqui em casa todos têm a preocupação em reduzir o consumo, até porque pagamos uma taxa todo mês.”Renata Marson T. Andrade, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087840659589092698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933714072945118952.post-20237988050354391992011-09-15T17:47:00.000-07:002011-09-15T17:48:28.903-07:00racionamento de água no DF<span class="h1">Adasa toma medidas preventivas de racionamento de água na Bacia Pipiripau</span> <br /> <span id="items_noticia" style="display: inline;"> <p> <span class="bluelight">Publicação:</span> <span>15/09/2011 19:52</span> <span class="bluelight">Atualização:</span> <span>15/09/2011 19:53</span></p><p><span> Correio Braziliense<br /></span> </p> </span> <div id="abanoticia" style="display: block;">Brasília está há 97 dias sem chuva. Em razão disso, a Agência Reguladora de Água, Energia e Saneamento (Adasa) determinou que, a partir desta quinta-feira (15/9) até o dia 28 de setembro, haverá um horário específico em que a captação de água na Bacia do Pipiripau será interrompida. Segundo a Adasa, a decisão tomada em reunião com a Comissão de Acompanhamento da Bacia consiste na tentativa de garantir o suprimento adequado para o consumo de usuários do Distrito Federal, que ocorre por meio da captação feita pela Companhia de Saneamento Ambiental do DF (Caesb). A Adasa alerta a tendência de piorar a situação com o prolongamento da estiagem e, portanto, a população deve estar preparada para racionar o uso do bem natural.<br /><br />Os horários de restrição ocorrerão durante quatro horas diárias de cada lado do ribeirão: de 8h às 12h na margem direita e das 12h às 16h na margem esquerda, e segue até a estação montante canal, próxima à estação da Caesb. Uma nova reunião para reavaliar as condições de oferta de água e possíveis medidas está marcada para ocorrer no dia 28, quando acaba a restrição.<br /><br />A implantação do esquema é justificada, pela agência, por conta dos baixos níveis de vazão registrados, o que significa risco iminente. Ou seja, a quantidade de água utilizada é maior do que a reserva presente na bacia e faz-se necessário a preservação para não faltar água.<br /><br />A medida vai afetar cerca de 150 produtores locais, que usam os recursos hídricos para irrigação de núcleos rurais. Ao todo existem três na região: Pipiripau, Taquara e Santos Dumont, onde atuam mais de 400 produtores. Os usuários localizados às margens do ribeirão Taquara, desde a nascente até a estação Taquara, não sofrerão paralisações de captação.<br /><br />A Comissão de Acompanhamento da Bacia é formada por usuários e representantes dos órgãos que cuidam dos recursos hídricos: Agência Nacional de Águas (ANA), Semarh, Emater, Caesb e Seapa, sob a coordenação da ADASA.<strong><br /><br />Histórico de seca</strong><br />O período de seca — de maio a setembro — é de disputa por água, em especial na Bacia do Pipiripau, uma região permeada por nascentes. Foi necessário um decreto do Governo do DF, em setembro de 2010, para disciplinar o uso da água e dirimir os conflitos.<br /><br />Duelam pelas águas do Pipiripau, na divisa do DF com o município de Formosa (GO), grandes produtores de café, empresas de extração e lavagem de areia, os pequenos produtores do Canal Santos Dumont e a Companhia de Saneamento Ambiental do DF (Caesb), que extrai a água para o abastecimento de Planaltina (DF).<br /><br />O Pipiripau já é fonte de abastecimento de Planaltina há 11 anos. Desde então, os produtores do Canal Santos Dumont — que produzem frutas, verduras e hortaliças no local há quase três décadas — precisaram mudar a maneira de plantar. A água que escorre pelo canal, construído para facilitar o abastecimento das propriedades rurais, tornou-se mais escassa. O racionamento do uso foi a única saída.<br /><br />Um levantamento da Agência Reguladora de Águas, Energia e Saneamento Básico do DF (Adasa) identificou 25 mil usuários irregulares de água superficial e subterrânea, tanto em áreas urbanas quanto na zona rural. A quantidade era bem maior: 5,5 mil se regularizaram nos últimos anos.</div>Renata Marson T. Andrade, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087840659589092698noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933714072945118952.post-34988980494064852782011-09-15T17:46:00.001-07:002011-09-15T17:46:58.087-07:00Governador assina decreto e declara Situação de Emergência no DF<span class="h1">Governador assina decreto e declara Situação de Emergência no DF</span> <br /> <span id="items_noticia" style="display: inline;"> <p> <span class="bluelight">Publicação:</span> <span>15/09/2011 21:17</span> <span class="bluelight">Atualização:Correio Braziliense</span> </p> </span> <div id="abanoticia" style="display: block;">O governador Agnelo Queiroz declarou Situação de Emergência no Distrito Federal devido aos excessivos incêndios florestais. O decreto foi publicado nesta quinta-feira (15/9) no Diário Oficial do DF (DODF). A medida reforça a portaria conjunta, assinada na última semana pelas secretarias de Estado de Defesa Civil, Educação, Governo e Segurança Pública.<br /><br />Mesmo com a trégua no clima seco, o vigor do decreto estabelece inicialmente 60 dias, entretanto, pode cessar assim que a situação de risco de novos incêndios seja reduzida. De acordo com a Defesa Civil, aos poucos a umidade começa a apresentar pequenos índices de melhora. Segundo O Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia (Inmet), a umidade relativa do ar variou entre 60% e 30% nesta quinta-feira. A temperatura mínima ficou em 17,8ºC e a máxima em 27,6ºC.<br /><br />Segundo a assessoria da Secretaria de Comunicação, o decreto prevê, entre outras aplicações, a possibilidade de os órgãos afetados (Secretarias de Meio Ambiente e Defesa Civil, e o Corpo de Bombeiros Militar do DF) adquirirem insumos que impeçam diretamente o fogo de se alastrar, como, por exemplo, bataclaves, máscaras, abafadores e bombas costais.<br /><br />Ainda de acordo com a assessoria, a assinatura do decreto decorre de, principalmente, dois fatores: os incêndios já terem atingido mais de 35 mil hectares no Distrito Federal e o desconforto causado à população pela queima da biomassa, que resulta em fuligem e poluição.</div>Renata Marson T. Andrade, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087840659589092698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933714072945118952.post-82337785213106940122011-09-15T17:20:00.000-07:002011-09-15T17:28:41.585-07:00noticia antiga - mas nova sobre acidentes e risco de nevoeiro<div class="materia-titulo"> <h1 class="entry-title">Nevoeiro e neblina aumentam risco de acidentes</h1> <p>Sob neblina ou chuva, diminua a velocidade, redobre a atenção e não ligue o pisca alerta, e sim o farol baixo.</p> </div> <div class="materia-assinatura-letra"> <div class="materia-letra" id="box-letra"> <p>Tamanho da letra</p> <ul><li class="letra-menor"> <a href="http://g1.globo.com/bomdiabrasil/0,,MUL1249809-16020,00-NEVOEIRO+E+NEBLINA+AUMENTAM+RISCO+DE+ACIDENTES.html#" title="Diminuir tamanho da letra">A-</a> </li><li class="letra-maior"> <a href="http://g1.globo.com/bomdiabrasil/0,,MUL1249809-16020,00-NEVOEIRO+E+NEBLINA+AUMENTAM+RISCO+DE+ACIDENTES.html#" title="Aumentar tamanho da letra">A+</a> </li></ul> </div> </div> <div class="materia-mascara midia-largura-320"> </div> <p>Cena comum nas estradas brasileiras agora de manhã: neblina, cerração. Fenômenos típicos do inverno, que são uma ameaça para quem pega a estrada logo cedo.</p> <p> </p> <p> <a href="http://g1.globo.com/bomdiabrasil/0,,CDM0-16008,00.html"> <strong>Quer receber as notícias do Bom Dia Brasil no seu email? Assine a newsletter </strong> </a> <br /> <br /> O motorista brasileiro, infelizmente, não tem a virtude da prudência. E por isso mesmo, os acidentes aumentam nesta época do ano. E são acidentes graves. Em apenas um deles, em São Paulo, cinco pessoas morreram. As causas: uma mistura de imprudência e falta de conhecimento sobre como dirigir em condições adversas.<br /> <br /> Saiba maneiras de tornar a viagem mais segura e evitar tragédias.<br /> <br /> Neblina e chuva, um descuido e um trágico acidente. Foi na Rodovia dos Imigrantes que três homens e duas mulheres morreram. Na mesma noite, outros quatro acidentes aconteceram em outra rodovia de São Paulo.<br /> <br /> “Eu já vi muitos carros no canteiro central, que sofreram acidentes e isso é muito preocupante”, diz uma mulher.<br /> <br /> A falta de visibilidade não acontece só nos trechos de serra. Em áreas de baixada é comum o surgimento de nevoeiro e neblina. Com isso, o risco de acidente aumenta.<br /> <br /> Na Rodovia Castelo Branco, a preocupação é tanta que a concessionária encomendou um estudo para tentar descobrir porque a densidade do nevoeiro tem aumentado nos últimos anos.<br /> <br /> “Há indícios de que as indústrias da região poderiam estar liberando no meio ambiente materiais pesados, afirma o gestor de atendimento Renato Caldo.<br /> <br /> Dois equipamentos foram instalados nos pontos onde os nevoeiros ocorrem. Eles captam as partículas da névoa que depois passam por testes químicos feitos pela Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade do Colorado, nos Estados Unidos, e pela Universidade de Viena, na Áustria.<br /> <br /> Muitos acidentes ocorrem porque os motoristas não sabem como se comportar diante da neblina.<br /> <br /> “Ligo o pisca alerta para manter o de trás informado para diminuir a velocidade. A orientação é não ligar o pisca alerta? Eu não sabia”, diz o comprador Carlos Eduardo Reina.</p> <p> <br /> Pisca alerta só para carro parado. Em caso de neblina, a Polícia Rodoviária recomenda que o motorista mantenha antes de tudo a calma e siga os procedimentos de segurança.<br /> <br /> “Ele não deve parar sobre a faixa de rolamento. Orientamos que o condutor não pare no acostamento. Se houver necessidade de parar no acostamento, não tiver como prosseguir, que ocupantes desembarquem e procure uma área segura”, afirma o capitão da Polícia Rodoviária Estadual de São Paulo Dalton Augusto Infanti.<br /> <br /> Um motorista segue outras recomendações: “Primeira providência é sinalização de lanterna e redução da velocidade. Quem conduz nessas condições deve dirigir para si e para o outro, sempre mantendo atenção redobrada”, afirma o bancário Antonio Denardi.<br /> <br /> Reforçando as recomendações: sob neblina não ligue o pisca alerta, ligue o farol baixo do carro. E só pare no acostamento se for impossível continuar. E uma vez no acostamento desça do carro e fique em lugar seguro.<br /> <br /> A principal recomendação, seja quando há neblina ou chuva, é diminuir a velocidade e redobrar a atenção.</p>Renata Marson T. 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But they said it had decreased in intensity, with sustained wind speeds of about 80 miles an hour, down 15 miles an hour from 12 hours before. And they acknowledged that they did not know precisely why it had weakened. </p><p> “There’s some internal dynamics of the storm that we don’t completely understand,” said Todd Kimberlain, a hurricane specialist at the center in Miami. </p><p> Mr. Kimberlain said one reason for the weakening may be that the storm had never completed a typical hurricane cycle in which the innermost band of spinning clouds, called the inner eye wall, dissipates and is replaced with an outer band that contracts. </p><p> “Some <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/h/hurricanes_and_tropical_storms/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="More articles about hurricanes." class="meta-classifier">hurricanes</a> get through this process and afterward will strengthen,” he said. “But we don’t know what has to go on internally.” </p><p> By never completing the cycle, Irene has become less organized and has lower peak winds, although it is still a very wide storm. </p><p> Hurricanes also tend to strengthen over water that is warm and deep, and Irene may have passed over areas that are a bit shallower. “There are some peculiar aspects to the water in that part of the Atlantic,” Mr. Kimberlain said. But it is very hard to know how the water may have affected Irene “because we don’t have observations everywhere.” </p><p> Mr. Kimberlain said that despite the uncertainty about the storm’s strength, he was especially concerned about the potential for heavy rainfall, especially in parts of New York and New Jersey that have received much rain in the past few weeks. </p><p> He also said the storm was still capable of producing a surge of four to eight feet over normal tides in New Jersey and New York. Storm surges are only partly related to maximum wind speed; the size of the storm and its overall speed are important as well. Irene has winds over 39 miles an hour over an area about 500 miles wide, which would tend to create higher surges, but is moving relatively slowly at about 15 miles an hour, which would tend to lessen them. </p><p> The problems in predicting Irene’s strength are typical, scientists say. Hurricane forecasting is far better at estimating where a storm will go. </p><p> “We’ve had a wonderful history of improving tracking forecasts,” said Clifford Mass, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington who works on numerical modeling of storms. A hurricane, he said, is essentially like a top, and it is relatively easy to gauge the steering winds and other forces that will move it. </p><p> “But we have not gotten good in intensity forecasts,” Dr. Mass said. “To get the intensity right, we have to get the innards of the storm right.” </p><p> The problem is a lack of observational data; it is very difficult to get information from the heart of a hurricane. Aircraft that fly into them do so at about 10,000 feet, far above the most intense winds and conditions. They carry radar that can gauge some conditions far below, and they also drop sensors on parachutes to measure wind speeds, air pressure and water temperatures. But it is not enough data to plug into a numerical model and yield a forecast that has a high degree of certainty, Dr. Mass said. </p><p> Mr. Kimberlain said the difficulty in gauging a storm’s intensity led the National Hurricane Center to be cautious when updating its forecasts, as it has been doing every several hours in the case of Irene. </p><p> “We’re slow to make changes to the forecast,” he said. “We’d rather be a little high than a little low.” </p> <div class="articleCorrection"> </div> </div> </div> <div class="columnGroup "> <div class="articleFooter"> <div class="articleMeta"> <div class="opposingFloatControl wrap"> <div class="element1"> <h6 class="metaFootnote">A version of this article appeared in print on August 28, 2011, on page A19 of the New York edition with the headline: Predicting Storm Strength Challenges Forecasters.</h6> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>Renata Marson T. Andrade, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087840659589092698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933714072945118952.post-10053535266281381652011-08-27T19:42:00.001-07:002011-08-27T19:42:49.750-07:00II Workshop Internacional de História do Ambiente: Desastres Ambientais e Sustentabilidade<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang="PT-BR">Vivemos em um território largamente urbanizado com uma ocupação humana densa e muitas vezes inadequada, em tempos de variações climáticas complexas. Os desastres ambientais, cujos impactos têm afetado diretamente a vida de diversas comunidades (em especial, as mais carentes), se tornam assim, cada vez mais, uma séria preocupação nos âmbitos nacional e internacional. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:150%;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang="PT-BR">Embora a crença da inevitabilidade natural dos desastres continue existindo, a influência do comportamento humano nos seus catastróficos impactos é hoje comumente reconhecida. Algumas vezes, conseguimos certo sucesso na luta contra velhos modos de pensar e agir e adoptamos novas práticas; outras vezes, embora reconhecendo a necessidade de alterar hábitos de vida, insistimos em formas de relação com o ambiente que já foram identificadas como desadequadas.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:150%;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang="PT-BR">Necessitamos de um novo paradigma de conhecimento-ação, baseado na ideia de incerteza, interdependência e complexidade que nos leve a uma nova postura ética de respeito da Terra e da promoção de modos de vida mais sustentáveis. A história do ambiente pode desempenhar um papel decisivo na compreensão das reais causas dos desastres naturais/ambientais. Ela pode também dar um importante subsídio para a sua prevenção e para a construção de sociedades/formas de desenvolvimento mais sustentáveis. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:150%;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang="PT-BR">Frente a esta realidade e objetivando conscientizar e capacitar novos atores o Núcleo de Estudos Ambientais, o Departamento de Geografia do Centro de Ciências Humanas e da Educação, o Mestrado em Planejamento Territorial e Desenvolvimento Socioambiental (MPPT), a Pró-reitoria de Extensão, Cultura e Comunidade, o Grupo Coordenador de Estudos, Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento em Gestão de Riscos para Emergências e Desastres (GCEPED-GR) da Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC) e a Fundação de Arte e Tecnologia</span></p> <span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language: PT-BR" lang="PT-BR">(FUNDARTEC) organizam entre os dias 15 a 19 de novembro de 2011, o<a href="http://alfa.locadados.com.br/%7Eworkshop/?ver=t&t=15"><strong> II Workshop Internacional de História do Ambiente: Desastres Ambientais e Sustentabilidade</strong></a> (15 a 19 de novembro) e o GISDay (16 de novembro).</span>Renata Marson T. 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Andrew M. Cuomo made that plea outside Albany as he met with National Guard members being deployed to Long Island to help with the storm. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg issued his warning at a news conference in Coney Island. </p><p> “It is going to be a very serious thing as far as we can tell now,” the mayor said, flanked by Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly and other city officials. “This is going to be a very serious storm no matter what the track is.” </p><p> “Staying behind is dangerous, staying behind is foolish and it’s against the law,” he added. </p><p> Mr. Bloomberg said electricity could be turned off in some parts of Lower Manhattan and in other low-lying areas to avoid more severe damage from flooding, but he added that no decision had yet been made. </p><p> On Friday, city officials issued what they called an unprecedented order for the evacuation of about 370,000 residents of low-lying areas, warning that Hurricane Irene was such a threat that people living there simply had to get out. Officials also made what they said was another first-of-its-kind decision, announcing plans to shut down the city’s entire transit system Saturday — all 468 subway stations and 840 miles of tracks, and the rest of the nation’s largest mass transit network: thousands of buses in the city, as well as the buses and commuter trains that reach from Midtown Manhattan to the suburbs. </p><p> He added that residents should also “plan on the possibility of no power downtown.” </p><p> A Con Ed spokesman, Alfonso Quiroz, said that the pre-emptive shutdown could allow workers to restore electrical power more quickly once the storm has passed. </p><p> Mr. Bloomberg acknowledged that while the city’s shelters have room for 71,000 people, there would not be the same number of beds. “We’ll make do with what we can,” he said. </p><p> Underscoring what Mr. Bloomberg and other officials said was the seriousness of the threat, President Obama approved a request from Mr. Cuomo to declare a federal emergency in the state while the hurricane was still several hundred miles away, churning toward the Carolinas. The city was part of a hurricane warning that took in hundreds of miles of coastline, from Sandy Hook, N.J., to Sagamore Beach, Mass. </p><p> The hurricane, 290 miles of fury dancing angrily across the Atlantic Ocean toward the coast, was actually advancing more slowly than most late-summer storms, the National Weather Service said. It said that by doing a minuet instead of a faster step, the storm would prolong the pounding it delivered to coastal areas when it reached them. </p><p> A Weather Service forecast Friday night said rain associated with the storm would begin in Manhattan after 11 a.m. Saturday with conditions worsening into Sunday. </p><p> “Some weakening is expected after Irene reaches the coast of North Carolina,” a National Hurricane Center report said, “but Irene is forecast to remain a hurricane as it moves near or over the mid-Atlantic states and New England.” </p><p> City officials said the planned shutdown of New York City’s mass transit network remained on schedule Saturday morning, as passengers and transit workers alike prepared to start winding down subway, bus and commuter rail service at noon. </p><p> The Staten Island Ferry will end service around 10 p.m., or sooner depending on severe wind conditions, the city said. Fares have been waived for buses throughout the city, and tolls have been suspended on most of the major bridges east and south of Manhattan. </p><p> Pennsylvania Station in Midtown was orderly but crowded on Saturday morning, with about the same amount of people as a regular weekday. The final commuter trains to the suburbs are scheduled to leave shortly before noon, and Amtrak has canceled most of its Northeast Corridor trains for the afternoon. The airports are set to close to arriving flights at noon. </p><p> The New York City subway was running fairly smoothly on Saturday morning with reports of little crowding on the trains.
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Andrade, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087840659589092698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933714072945118952.post-72107972169506565222011-08-24T20:17:00.000-07:002011-08-24T20:18:42.699-07:00Eventos climáticos extremos nos USA<h1> Extreme weather patterns plaguing US</h1> <p class="WaterweekNewsText"><em>Editor's note: See link below to comment on this article.</em></p><table align="right" width="300"><tbody><tr><td><img title="Drought300.jpg" alt="Drought300.jpg" src="http://www.awwa.org/files/Publications/Streamlines/2011/082311/Drought300.jpg" border="0" /></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><span class="caption">NOAA's prediction for the next several months offers little hope for relief from drought.</span></strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> A persistent weather pattern that has seared the central and eastern United States has shattered heat records for both daytime and night temperatures and left the largest swath of "exceptional" drought in the 12-year history of the <a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/" target="_blank">US Drought Monitor</a>. Twenty-six percent of the land mass in the lower 48 states was included in that most severe drought designation at the end of July. <p>But the country experienced large variations in both heat and precipitation between regions, according to <a href="http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2011/20110808_julystats.html" target="_blank">the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</a>.</p><p>Almost 9,000 daily heat records were broken or tied in July, according to NOAA — including 2,755 highest maximum temperatures and 6,171 highest minimum temperatures (i.e., nighttime records). NOAA found that just by <a href="http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/MediaDetail.php?MediaID=795&MediaTypeID=1" target="_blank">plotting the location of each record</a> a nearly complete image of the contiguous US is visible.</p><p><b>The January-July period was record-dry</b> for Texas, New Mexico and the South climate region (Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas). The month of July in that South region was the warmest single calendar month on record for any climate region in the US.</p><p>Texas and Oklahoma had their warmest months ever on record in July and while recording nearly their driest months on record. Oklahoma's statewide average temperature in July was the warmest monthly statewide average on record for any state during any month. Texas also set a "hottest-ever" record for June. An article in the Aug. 22 edition of <i>Time</i> magazine says the state has received 6.53 in (17 cm) of rain so far this year, while its annual average for 12 months is 37 in (86 cm).</p><table align="right" width="300"><tbody><tr><td><img title="LakeSpense300.jpg" alt="LakeSpense300.jpg" src="http://www.awwa.org/files/Publications/Streamlines/2011/082311/LakeSpense300.jpg" border="0" /></td></tr><tr><td><p><span class="caption"><b>The little bit of water remaining in Lake E.V. Spense lies 120 feet (37 m) away from the base of the spillway (pictured here). The town of Robert Lee, Texas, (pop. 1,020) is allotted only 200,000 gallons (760 m<sup>3</sup>) a day of the water being pumped out of Spense.</b></span><span class="creditline"><i>AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez</i></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table> As the ground dried out and water demand surged, water mains popped at record rates. <a href="http://www.houstontx.gov/mayor/press/20110815.html" target="_blank">Houston</a> ordered mandatory water conservation measures after experiencing <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44160515/ns/weather/#.TkveA2G3KdA" target="_blank">700 main breaks a day</a>. At least two Texas towns — <a href="http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kera/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1838195/North.Texas/Kemp.Out.of.Water" target="_blank">Kemp</a> and <a href="http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Opportunity-dries-up-with-water-in-Robert-Lee-1992471.php" target="_blank">Robert Lee</a> — found they were nearly without drinking water. Kemp's system was under a boil order after main breaks and heavy usage drained its tank. Dallas exceeded 100 degrees F (37.8 C) on 30 of the 31 days in July. The <a href="http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/MediaDetail.php?MediaID=787&MediaTypeID=1" target="_blank">O.C. Fisher reservoir</a> at San Angelo, Texas, dried up completely. <p>The trough/ridge weather pattern that slashed across the US created the second warmest May-July on record for the South climate region. In fact, 41 of the lower 48 states had above-normal, much-above-normal or a record warmest July, a shift.</p><p><b>Meanwhile, precipitation was much above normal</b> for most states in the northern half of the country<b>.</b> Three states (Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan) had record precipitation during the February-July period. California tied for its fifth wettest July ever. <a href="http://www.mwdh2o.com/mwdh2o/pages/operations/storage.pdf" target="_blank">Reservoirs in Southern California</a> were filling up — at 97 percent of capacity in the case of massive Diamond Lake.</p><p>The shift in weather patterns caused had unusually cool temperatures for the Northwest and West climate regions between May and July — the coolest on record for the state of Washington. Only seven states — all west of the Rocky Mountains — had July temperatures that were near or below the 20<sup>th</sup> century average.</p><p><b>The globe experienced its seventh warmest July</b> since record keeping began in 1880, <a href="http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2011/20110815_globalstats.html" target="_blank">NOAA reported</a>. Neither El Niño nor La Niña conditions were present during July, according to NOAA. July’s Arctic sea ice extent was the smallest on record for that month since records began in 1979. The January-July worldwide land surface temperature was 1.40F 0.78C) above the 20<sup>th</sup> century average.</p><p><span class="red"><b>Additional AWWA Resources</b></span></p><ul><li> <a href="http://apps.awwa.org/ebusmain/OnlineStore/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductId=26750" target="_blank"><i>Drought Preparedness and Response</i></a> (M60)</li><li>"<a href="http://www.awwa.org/Conferences/WebcastsDetail.cfm?ItemNumber=56815" target="_blank">A drought is coming: Plan for it now!</a>" webcast, Sept. 21, 1-2:30 p.m. ET</li><li><i><a href="http://apps.awwa.org/EbusMain/Default.aspx?TabID=55&ProductId=6500" target="_blank">Total Water Management</a></i></li><li><a href="http://apps.awwa.org/ebusmain/OnlineStore/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductId=6683" target="_blank"><i>Climate Change and Water: International Perspectives on Mitigation and Adaptation</i></a></li><li>AWWA Web page with <a href="http://www.awwa.org/awwa/Community/links.cfm?FuseAction=Links&LinkCategoryID=2" target="_blank">conservation/drought links</a></li></ul>Renata Marson T. Andrade, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087840659589092698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933714072945118952.post-23552413758882758372011-08-24T20:12:00.000-07:002011-08-24T20:15:47.866-07:00Radiação de Fukushima é 30 vezes maior que Hiroshima<h1 style="font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:30px;font-family:Times;font-size:25px;"><span style="line-height:20px;font-weight:normalfont-size:16px;" ><a href="http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110824f2.html" target="_blank">http://search.japantimes.co.<wbr>jp/cgi-bin/nn20110824f2.html</a></span></h1><h1 face="Times" size="25px" style="font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:30px;">Fukushima fallout said 30 times Hiroshima's</h1><h2 style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold;line-height:21px;font-family:Times">Expert paints dire picture of decontamination zone, slams government for foot-dragging</h2><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:Times;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal">By JUN HONGO</div><div style="font-family:Times;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal">Staff writer</div><div style="font-family:Times;font-size:14px;line-height:normal"><i>The Japan Times</i></div><div style="font-family:Times;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal">Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011</div><div style="font-size:16px;clear:both;margin-top:10px;font-family:Times;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal"><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">Video footage of Tatsuhiko Kodama's impassioned speech before a Diet committee in July went viral online recently, showing the medical expert's shocking revelation that the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant spewed some 30 times more radioactive materials than the fallout from the Hiroshima atomic bombing.</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">Kodama, a professor of systems biology and medicine at the University of Tokyo, used clear-cut terms to get his message across. His ruthless criticism of the government's slow response has been viewed at least 1 million times.</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">"It means a significantly large amount of radioactive material was released compared with the atomic bomb," he told the Diet committee.</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">"What has the Diet been doing as 70,000 people are forced to evacuate and wander outside of their homes?"</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">Despite a hard-nosed image, the expert on radiology and cancer briefly showed a softer side while speaking to The Japan Times about his two grandchildren and their summer in the Tokyo heat.</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">"A lot of people ask me this, but Tokyo is safe from radiation now," Kodama, who heads the university's Radioisotope Center and the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, said Aug. 12.</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">"My two grandchildren swim outside in the pool, and there is no concern with the safety of food at this point."</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">But his expression became grave when discussing the 20-km no-go zone in Fukushima, explaining that decontamination of such areas will take not years but decades.</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">There are places he wouldn't let his grandchildren spend time outdoors freely, even in areas outside of the restricted zone.</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">"Cesium has been detected from urine and breast milk from those residing in Fukushima Prefecture, and the cause for that is still not specified," he warned.</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">Kodama said he can't give an estimate of how many people will suffer from cancer symptoms due to exposure to radiation, or how long it will take for signs to surface.</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">There simply isn't enough epidemiological statistics to do that, he said.</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">But the government and scientists shouldn't be wasting time playing guessing games, he stressed.</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">"My theory is this — instead of trying to decide what is safe and what isn't at this point, we should focus on properly measuring the level of contamination in each area and on how to cleanse them."</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">According to Kodama, the Radioisotope Center estimates that radioactive materials released from Fukushima No. 1 amount to about 29.6 times of that released by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">The group also found out that radiation from Fukushima will only decrease by one-tenth per year, which is about 100 times slower than radiation from the bomb.</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">The most difficult problem for the scientists trying to cope with the situation is that the Fukushima crisis is unprecedented.</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">"There are a lot of unknown (factors) regarding how this level of radiation will affect children and pregnant women," Kodama said, pointing out that the 1986 Chernobyl accident suggests the government should be on alert for any signs of bladder and thyroid cancer.</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">But apart from the aftermath of the Chernobyl incident, not many statistics are available to predict what may transpire, he said.</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">Still, that doesn't justify the government's slow response to Fukushima, he added.</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">For starters, the Diet has been extremely inept in updating laws on controlling radiation contamination.</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">While the Radiation Damage Prevention Law was created for handling small amounts of highly radioactive materials, specifically to handle accidents on site at nuclear plants, the Tohoku region is experiencing radioactive contamination in a radius beyond 200 km.</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">The situation calls for a completely different approach, yet the Diet has failed to update the prevention law.</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">That alone has been a major hindrance for scientists trying to diminish the damage in Fukushima, including Kodama, who pays visits to the prefecture every weekend to conduct decontamination efforts with his peers.</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">Another sign of a lax government can be seen in how local governments appear to be short of equipment to measure radiation contamination in food and other produce.</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">Considering that contamination will be a major problem for the next couple of decades, the central government shouldn't hesitate to invest in and develop, even mass-produce, equipment that can allow checks for radiation.</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">Some companies have told Kodama it would only take three months to develop a system for efficient radiation measurement.</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">Kodama advised the government to take two different approaches in decontaminating Fukushima.</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">The first step should focus on creating a rough map of the wider area and the level of contamination, possibly using remote-control helicopters and Japan's advanced GPS system.</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">For emergency decontamination procedures, each community should have a call-in center that conducts quick cleanups once a request is made from residents.</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">Kodama said the government has spent approximately ¥800 billion to decontaminate land after a mass cadmium poisoning broke out in Toyama Prefecture in 1912.</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">Contamination from radiation in the current crisis has spread to about 1,000 times that area, and the final cleanup cost is expected to be astronomical.</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">But both time and money should not be considered an issue, because it is the responsibility of this generation not to pass on the contaminated land to the next, Kodama said.</p><p style="line-height:20px;margin-bottom:10px">"I am aware that there are many opinions regarding nuclear power. However, I believe all of us can agree that Fukushima and the surrounding area needs to be decontaminated as soon as possible," he said.</p></div><div style="margin-top:20px;font-size:12px;clear:both;font-family:Times;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal"><div style="font-size:12px">The Japan Times: </div><div style="font-size:12px">(C) All rights reserved</div></div>
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<br />Renata Marson T. Andrade, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087840659589092698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933714072945118952.post-46875827334440018142011-08-15T13:08:00.000-07:002011-08-15T13:10:20.683-07:00ar seco e alta temepratura coloca o DF em estado de alerta <div class="materia-cabecalho"> <p> <abbr class="published">15/08/2011 14h56</abbr> - Atualizado em <abbr class="updated">15/08/2011 16h08 - G1 news</abbr> </p> </div> <div class="materia-titulo"> <h1 class="entry-title">Umidade do ar cai para 10% no DF e iguala recordes de 2002 e 2004</h1> <h2>Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia iniciou medições no DF em 1961.
<br />Às 14h, temperatura na região era de 26,6 graus centígrados.</h2> </div> <div class="materia-assinatura-letra"> <div class="materia-assinatura"> <p class="vcard author"> <span class="adr"> <span class="locality">Do G1 DF</span> </span> </p> </div> <div class="materia-impressao"> <a href="http://g1.globo.com/distrito-federal/noticia/2011/08/umidade-do-ar-cai-para-10-no-df-e-iguala-recordes-de-2002-e-2004.html#" title="Imprimir">imprimir</a> </div> </div> <p> A umidade relativa do ar no Distrito Federal atingiu o índice de 10% às 14h desta segunda-feira (15), igualando os recordes de 2002 e 2004, segundo o Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia (Inmet). As medições do Inmet começaram a ser feitas em 1961. Às 14h, a temperatura no DF era de 26,6 graus.</p> <div class="foto componente_materia midia-largura-620"> <img alt="Memorial JK em Brasília, que registrou 10% de umidade relativa do ar na tarde desta segunda-feira (15) (Foto: Káthia Mello/G1)" src="http://s.glbimg.com/jo/g1/f/original/2011/08/15/foto-sol-620.jpg" title="Memorial JK em Brasília, que registrou 10% de umidade relativa do ar na tarde desta segunda-feira (15) (Foto: Káthia Mello/G1)" height="400" width="620" /><strong>Memorial JK, em Brasília, na tarde desta segunda-feira (15); cidade registrou 10% de umidade relativa do ar às 14h (Foto: Káthia Mello/G1)</strong></div> <p> De acordo com a meteorologista Aline Tochio, do Climatempo, essa umidade pode ser comparada à do deserto do Atacama, no Chile, que é considerado um dos mais secos do mundo. “Mas lá [no deserto de Atacama] a umidade chega ainda mais baixo do que isso”, afirmou.</p> <div class="saibamais componente_materia"> <strong>saiba mais</strong> <ul><li> <a href="http://g1.globo.com/distrito-federal/noticia/2011/06/contra-incendios-parque-nacional-de-brasilia-faz-queimadas-controladas.html">Contra incêndios, Parque Nacional de Brasília faz queimadas controladas
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<br /></a></li></ul></div> <p> O índice de umidade é considerado crítico quando fica abaixo de 30%, de acordo com a Organização Meteorológica Mundial. Entre 30% e 20%, é considerado estado de atenção. Abaixo de 20% até 12%, é decretado o estado de alerta. Segundo o Inmet, o ideal para o corpo humano é uma umidade acima de 65% e temperatura de 24 graus.</p> <p> O meteorologista Hamilton Carvalho, do Inmet, atribui a baixa umidade a uma massa de ar seco sobre a região e à elevação da temperatura, que chegou aos 28 graus no início da tarde.
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<br /> O Distrito Federal já está a 66 dias sem chuva. O período de seca, porém, está longe do recorde de 1963, quando o Distrito Federal ficou 164 dias sem chuva.</p> <div class="flash componente_materia" id="655"> </div> <p> <strong>Queimadas</strong>
<br /> O tempo seco favorece a ocorrência de queimadas. Nesta época do ano, o fogo atinge cerca de 35 hectares de matas do Distrito Federal – o equivalente a 35 campos de futebol.</p> <p> Para detectar as áreas com maior potencial de queimadas, o Grupamento de Proteção Ambiental utiliza dois critérios. Um deles é a reunião das informações e das coordenadas onde ocorreram incêndios florestais. O outro é o índice de inflamabilidade calculado pelo Inmet.</p> <p> A partir de dados como umidade relativa do ar e temperatura, o Inmet gera um mapa que indica os riscos de incêndio em todo o país. Os índices variam de "nenhum" a "perigoso".</p>Renata Marson T. Andrade, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087840659589092698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933714072945118952.post-18704761974843952362011-08-05T04:25:00.001-07:002011-08-05T05:06:13.742-07:00Estudo de Planejamento e Gestão de Incêndios em áreas periurbanas no DF: Gabriel Zacharias, aluno do mestrado da UCB, e do IBAMA/PREVFOGOO Gabriel Zacharias se propôs a realizar em seu mestrado um Plano de Gestão de Risco<br />(PGR) para a questão dos incêndios florestais na área periurbana do Distrito<br />Federal. <br />Para iniciar a elaboração do PGR o primeiro passo é a elaboração de<br />uma Análise de Risco Ambiental voltada à temática de incêndios florestais.<br />Segundo Kirchhoff (2004) a análise de Risco é uma ferramenta que tenta<br />quantificar riscos associados à determinada ação antrópica, dando base a<br />tomadas de decisões mais racionais e efetivas no campo ambiental.<br />Ainda segundo Kirchhoff (2004), a avaliação de risco tem início com a<br />identificação do perigo, que é definido como uma característica de um sistema<br />ou processo que representa um potencial de acidente. Neste estudo de caso<br />será trabalhado como perigo o próprio incêndio florestal.<br />Os procedimentos para a elaboração do ARA seguirá o modelo<br />apresentado por Kirchhoff (2004). Após a elaboração do ARA, como ferramenta<br />para levantamentos dos riscos ambientais, será proposto um Plano de Gestão<br />de Risco (PGR), para os incêndios florestais em áreas periurbanas do Distrito<br />Federal.<br />Segundo Petrobras (2006), o processo de Gerenciamento dos Riscos<br />Ambientais visa à ação planejada para o combate às eventuais situações de<br />emergência consideradas como significativas a partir da Análise de Risco. Este<br />planejamento engloba não só a identificação das medidas e ações, como<br />incorpora a locação e verificação dos recursos necessários, treinamentos<br />específicos e auditorias de todo o processo. <br /><br />Gabriel dará um curso de brigadista para a comunidade da <a href="http://institutosalvia.blogspot.com">Microbacia do Córrego do Urubu nos dias 6 a 9 de Agosto</a>, como parte da gestão de risco de incêndio nesta região. O Plano de Gestão de Risco de Incêndio nesta região foi realizado pela consultora Gisele Gouveia com o apoio do IBAMA/Prevfogo e da comunidade local.Renata Marson T. Andrade, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087840659589092698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933714072945118952.post-59598122638365604562011-08-05T04:18:00.000-07:002011-08-05T04:23:19.246-07:00A época de risco de incêndios começou: mapeamento de áreas vulneráveis e acidentes no DF<span class="h1">Bombeiros alertam para riscos de locais vulneráveis como a Oca da Tribo</span> <br /> <span id="items_noticia" style="display: inline;"> <p><a class="yellowlight" href="mailto:">Correio Braziliense - Luiz Calcagno</a></p> <p> <span class="bluelight">Publicação:</span> <span>04/08/2011 08:00</span> <span class="bluelight">Atualização:</span> </p> </span> <div id="abanoticia" style="display: block;"><br />A destruição pelo fogo do restaurante Oca da Tribo serve para alertar aos brasilienses que casas e estabelecimentos comerciais também estão vulneráveis às queimadas florestais. Uma das hipóteses do Corpo de Bombeiros é de que o vento tenha carregado brasas de um incêndio nos arredores para o telhado de palha do estabelecimento. Com isso, o espaço tradicional na cidade entra para as estatísticas de edificações, incluindo pontos comerciais, consumidas pelas chamas. De janeiro a outubro do ano passado, de acordo com os bombeiros, foram 1.642 registros dessa natureza (ou cinco por dia), mais que todo o ano de 2009 (1.405 ocorrências).<br /><br />Ontem, até as 20h, foram registrados 45 focos de incêndio no Distrito Federal. Ao todo, este ano, o Corpo de Bombeiros atendeu 1.300 chamados para apagar o fogo que devora o cerrado nesta época seca. Desde 10 de junho, não cai uma gota de chuva no Distrito Federal. Ontem, o Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia (Inmet) registrou 21% de umidade nas horas mais quentes do dia. Na segunda-feira, o índice ficou em 19%, o segundo mais baixo do ano. “A expectativa é que a próxima chuva ocorra somente na segunda quinzena de setembro. Está dentro do normal. Ainda não dá para esperar uma seca pior ou melhor que a do ano passado”, disse a meteorologista Maria das Dores de Azevedo.<br /><br />O major Mauro Sérgio de Oliveira, da Comunicação Social do Corpo de Bombeiros, recomenda a quem mora perto do cerrado que mantenha materiais combustíveis, como madeira, palha e panos, longe das matas. O militar alerta ainda que, na hora de construir, é importante delimitar uma distância segura entre a obra e a mata e dar uma atenção especial à parte elétrica do prédio ou da casa. “São cuidados que ajudam a evitar uma tragédia. Mesmo assim, precisamos lembrar que incêndios florestais se propagam, normalmente, pelo vento ou por animais atingidos pelas chamas, que tentam fugir e levam o fogo para outras áreas. Nesses locais, aconselhamos construções de alvenaria, que são mais resistentes às chamas”, explicou.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Perigo</span><br />Quanto à estrutura do Oca da Tribo, o major disse que não há problema em construir um estabelecimento de palha e madeira, mas que nesse caso o proprietário precisa de um plano de combate a incêndio específico para ambientes com alto risco desse tipo de ocorrência. No caso do restaurante, o projeto estava em dia, o que não evitou que o local fosse totalmente consumido pelas chamas. “Não é um erro ser de palha, mas o risco nesse caso é muito maior. Se estivéssemos do lado do local, ainda assim, a destruição seria total. É importante pensar na hora de construir. Nesse caso, os riscos são maiores e o proprietário sabe disso”, disse o major Mauro de Oliveira. O tradicional restaurante fica a uma distância de 200 metros da mata que incendiou na tarde de ontem. O fogo no cerrado e no Oca da Tribo pôde ser visto de várias partes do Plano Piloto, incluindo a Esplanada dos Ministérios.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Exigências</span><br />Todo e qualquer estabelecimento comercial precisa atender às exigências<br />de segurança do Corpo de Bombeiros. As determinações variam de acordo com o tamanho e a finalidade do prédio. Rotas de fuga preestabelecidas, extintores de incêndio posicionados, hidrantes e aspersores automáticos (dispositivos que soltam água quando detectada fumaça no local) são alguns dos itens importantes nas edificações.</div>Renata Marson T. Andrade, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087840659589092698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933714072945118952.post-55882991926190237692011-08-04T16:04:00.000-07:002011-08-04T16:10:59.118-07:00Dez milhões de pessoas estão sob risco na África ocidental que sofre a pior seca em 60 anos, já prevista em estudos de mudança do clima<center> <h2>Ten Million People at Risk as East Africa Faces Worst Drought in 60 Years<br /><br />WMO-UNCCD Action Underway</h2></center> <p class="normaltext"><b>Geneva/Bonn, 1 August 2011</b>. The latest famine in Somalia has put a spotlight on the urgent need to develop national and regional drought policies, according to the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, which are jointly leading the international action to address the growing impact of droughts. </p><p class="normaltext">Drought is expected to continue in hard-hit southern Somalia during August and September, as well as parts of Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya, according to the latest WMO Climate Outlook Forum for the region, which provides regional climate forecasts. The IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) already called for preparedness for an ongoing long period of drought over parts of the equatorial region in its climate update for the Greater Horn of Africa on 15 January 2011. </p><p class="normaltext">Droughts have become more common over the past two decades. This is consistent with reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, stating that the world has become more drought-prone over the last 25 years, and will see an increased frequency of droughts in the future. </p><p class="normaltext"> "Droughts do not happen overnight," said Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), responding to the declaration of famine by the United Nations earlier this month. "The UNCCD joins the calls on the international community to respond urgently to this crisis. At the same time, we stress the need for effective, long-term solutions to the root causes of famine in drought-prone regions, such as implementation of drought management systems and measures to stop desertification, which means land degradation in drylands." </p><p class="normaltext">"We are moving forward quickly to provide integrated drought information to help decision-makers deal with drought, such as the one underway right now in East Africa," said Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization. "Drought is a serious and growing problem in many countries. Adaptation to drought, desertification and climate change urgently needs to be mainstreamed in national development policies." </p><p class="normaltext">Mr Gnacadja visited Mr Jarraud at WMO earlier this month to discuss cooperation between the two organizations, following the UN declaration of famine for two provinces in southern Somalia on 13 July 2011. The two organizations have a long-standing partnership. Most recently they have championed the use of the Standard Precipitation Index, as a universal meteorological drought index to improve monitoring and climate risk management among countries. </p><p class="normaltext">"It's high time for UN joint action on droughts," said Mr Jarraud. "We need more coordinated action for monitoring and early warning systems that deliver timely information to decision-makers; improved impact assessment procedures; pro-active risk management measures and preparedness plans; and stronger emergency response programmes." </p><p class="normaltext">WMO is working with its scientific network to offer the best policy advice available on drought management. A WMO international meeting on national drought policies, hosted by George Mason University (USA) on 14-15 July 2011, outlined steps for countries to learn from each other to reduce drought risks. WMO is compiling a "best-practices" compendium to help countries move rapidly to develop their own national drought policies appropriate to their local conditions. </p><p class="normaltext">As part of this process, WMO and UNCCD will lead international discussions in November to build integrated drought information systems. To this end, the two organizations, along with Morocco's national meteorological service and the US National Integrated Drought Information System, are organizing an international symposium in Casablanca, Morocco from 9 to 11 November 2011. </p><br /><p class="normaltext"><i>World Meteorological Organization is the United Nations System's authoritative voice on Weather, Climate and Water </i></p> <p class="normaltext"><i>The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification is the sole legally binding international agreement linking environment, development and the promotion of healthy soils. The UNCCD focuses on the drylands, which cover 41% of the Earth and are inhabited by over 2 billion people, and works to alleviate poverty in the drylands, maintain and restore the land's productivity, and mitigate the effects of drought.</i> </p> For more information, please contact:<br /><i>At World Meteorological Organization:</i><br />Carine Richard-Van Maele,<br />Chief, Communications and Public Affairs,<br />Tel: +(41 22) 730 8315;<br />e mail: cpa@wmo.int<br /><br />Clare Nullis,<br />Press Officer, Communications and Public Affairs,<br />Tel: +(41 22) 730 8478; (41 79) 7091397 (cell)<br />e mail: cnullis@wmo.int<br />Web: <a href="http://www.wmo.int/">www.wmo.int</a><br /><br /><i>At the UN Convention to Combat Desertification:</i><br />Yukie Hori,<br />Coordinator, Awareness Raising, Communication and Education Unit,<br />Tel. +(49 228) 815 2829<br />Web: <a href="http://www.unccd.int/">www.unccd.int</a>Renata Marson T. Andrade, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087840659589092698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933714072945118952.post-67457989390825439622011-07-31T16:19:00.001-07:002011-07-31T16:22:53.417-07:00Mudança Climática e a Nova Geografia da ViolênciaAgainst the Grain | Tues 6.28.11 | Climate Chaos<br /><br />Christian Parenti. Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence. Nation Books, 2011<br /><br />Residents of the Global North may be justly wringing their hands about<br />flooding, droughts, and freak weather, but the most worrying effects of<br />climate change are expected to hit the countries of the Global South,<br />especially those in the broad regions on either side of the equator.<br />Christian Parenti has reported from that vast area and discusses the shape<br />that climate-related social dislocation is already taking, as well as the<br />militarized plans of the rich countries to keep poor climate refugees out.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.againstthegrain.org/files/atg/AtG_2011.06.28_Tropic_of_Chaos.mp3" target="_blank">http://www.againstthegrain.org/files/atg/AtG_2011.06.28_Tropic_of_Chaos.mp3</a>Renata Marson T. Andrade, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087840659589092698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933714072945118952.post-523558250934663662011-07-31T08:14:00.000-07:002011-07-31T08:15:23.969-07:00Explosão e incêndio em Embu das Artes- SP<div class="materia-cabecalho"> <p class="data-da-edicao"> <abbr>Edição do dia 30/07/2011</abbr> </p> <p> <abbr class="published">30/07/2011 14h06</abbr> - Atualizado em <abbr class="updated">30/07/2011 14h06</abbr> </p> </div> <div class="materia-titulo"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="http://g1.globo.com/jornal-hoje/noticia/2011/07/incendio-destroi-fabrica-de-solventes-em-embu-das-artes-na-grande-sp.html">Incêndio destrói fábrica de solventes em Embu das Artes, na Grande SP</a></h1> <h2>Técnicos da Agência Nacional do Petróleo investigam se a empresa funcionava de forma regular. Cinco pessoas ficaram feridas no acidente.</h2> </div> <div class="materia-assinatura-letra"> <div class="materia-assinatura"> <p class="vcard author"> <strong class="fn">Carla Modena</strong> <span class="adr"> <span class="locality">Embu das Artes, SP</span> </span> </p> </div> <div class="materia-impressao"> <a href="http://g1.globo.com/jornal-hoje/noticia/2011/07/incendio-destroi-fabrica-de-solventes-em-embu-das-artes-na-grande-sp.html#" title="Imprimir">imprimir</a> </div> </div> <div class="video componente_materia" id="1581407" style="width: 320px; height: 220px;"> </div> <p> O incêndio numa fábrica de solventes em Embu das Artes, na Grande São Paulo, deixo cinco pessoas feridas - três em estado grave. Os vizinhos prestaram os primeiros socorros aos feridos. As chamas se espalharam rapidamente e atingiram os tanques de combustível. Como a fábrica produzia solvente industrial, os produtos químicos alimentavam o fogo.</p> <p> “Na hora foi uma explosão. Eu vi uma labareda de uns dez metros. Saí até o portão e a labareda tomou conta da rua. Teve um estrondo muito grande e muita correria. Foi terrível”, conta um vizinho. “Tremeu até a porta. Acordei rapidinho pra ver o que era e todo mundo começou a correr desesperado, gritando”, disse outro morador.</p> <p> <strong>Acompanhe o Jornal Hoje também pelo <a href="http://twitter.com/JHoje" target="_blank">twitter</a> e pelo <a href="http://%20https//www.facebook.com/jhoficial" target="_blank">facebook</a>.<br /><br /></strong>O acidente fez o trânsito rodovia Régis Bittencourt parar. O combustível correu para um córrego próximo, que se transformou num rio de fogo. “É etanol e acetato, que são muito perigosos. Há um total de três tanques. Em torno de seis a sete já queimaram, mas estão preservando os outros que ainda não explodiram”, diz Carlos Senna,<br /> coordenador da Defesa Civil.</p> <p> Os bombeiros tinham pressa em apagar o incêndio, mas era difícil atingir a base das chamas por causa das altas temperaturas - acima de mil graus, a água evapora antes de chegar ao fogo. Era preciso esperar todo o combustível queimar.</p> <p> Representantes da Agência Nacional do Petróleo (ANP) estiveram no local na manhã deste sábado. O objetivo era saber exatamente com que produtos a fábrica trabalhava e se era necessário ter autorização da ANP, mas os técnicos não conseguiram analisar nada porque a empresa está sem energia, os computadores não funcionam e, portanto, eles não puderam ter acesso às notas fiscais eletrônicas.</p> Peritos também estiveram no local. Ainda há vazamento de produtos químicos. Bombeiros devem ficar no local durante o dia porque ainda há risco de o fogo recomeçar. Os técnicos da ANP devem voltar na segunda-feira a Embu das Artes para verificar se a fábrica funcionava de forma regular. A empresa ainda não se pronunciou sobre o incêndio.Renata Marson T. Andrade, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087840659589092698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933714072945118952.post-20414978113147662642011-07-31T08:10:00.000-07:002011-07-31T08:11:17.832-07:00Explosão e incêndio em Embu das Artes- SP<h2><a href="http://taboaoemfoco.com.br/?p=6938">Incêndio em Embu deixa 5 feridos; Fogo se alastrou por córrego</a></h2> <p class="postmeta">Escrito por <a href="http://taboaoemfoco.com.br/?author=2" title="Posts de Redação">Redação</a> em jul 30th, 2011 // <a href="http://taboaoemfoco.com.br/?p=6938#respond" class="comments-link" title="Comentário para Incêndio em Embu deixa 5 feridos; Fogo se alastrou por córrego">No Comment</a> // </p> <div style="padding: 5px 0px;"> </div><div id="attachment_6939" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px;"><a title="incendio_jornalnanet" rel="fancybox" class="fancybox" href="http://taboaoemfoco.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/incendio_jornalnanet.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-6939" title="incendio_jornalnanet" src="http://taboaoemfoco.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/incendio_jornalnanet-300x199.jpg" alt="Incêndio em distribuidora de combustíveis (Foto: Jornal Na Net)" height="199" width="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Incêndio em distribuidora de combustíveis (Foto: Jornal Na Net)</p></div> <p>O fogo que atingiu os tanques de combustíveis da empresa Old Flex na noite desta sexta-feira, dia 29, deixou pelo menos cinco pessoas feridas com queimaduras de 2º e 3º graus. Elas foram socorridas nos Hospital Geral do Pirajussara e no PS Taboão, informam o Corpo de Bombeiros.</p> <p>Os combustíveis da empresa que fica localizada na Estrada São Judas, divisa com Taboão da Serra, vazou e atingiu o Córrego Poá.</p> <p>Até o início desta madrugada o fogo, que se alastrou em direção ao Córrego Poá, ainda não havia sido controlado. Ao todo trabalham no local mais de 70 homens do Corpo de Bombeiros e 23 viaturas.</p> Os motivos que causaram o incêndio ainda não foramRenata Marson T. Andrade, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087840659589092698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933714072945118952.post-76361085633244028982011-07-31T07:29:00.000-07:002011-07-31T07:30:00.487-07:00Ameaça do derretimento de geleiras no Nepal - Aquecimento global<div> <span class="category">Nation</span><br /> <span class="heading"> If this is what a small glacial lake flood can do, imagine a big one </span><br /> <br /> <span class="writer"> ASTRID HOVDEN in HUMLA </span></div> <br /> <div class="postdatetime"> FROM ISSUE #564 (29 JULY 2011 - 04 AUG 2011) | <a class="postdatetime" href="http://www.nepalitimes.com/issue/564">TABLE OF CONTENTS</a> <hr align="left" noshade="noshade" size="1" width="70%"> <img src="http://www.nepalitimes.com/img/icon_subscribe.gif" height="11" width="11" /> <a href="http://www.nepalitimes.com/subscribe.php" class="postdatetime">SUBSCRIBE NT</a> <img src="http://www.nepalitimes.com/img/icon_print.gif" height="12" width="27" /> <a href="http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/issue/2011/07/31/Nation/18418/print" class="postdatetime"> PRINT </a> <img src="http://www.nepalitimes.com/img/icon_email.gif" height="9" width="27" /> <a class="postdatetime">REFER</a> <img src="http://www.nepalitimes.com/img/icon_editor.gif" border="0" height="11" width="23" /> <a class="postdatetime">WRITE TO EDITOR</a> <img src="http://www.nepalitimes.com/img/icon+share.gif" border="0" /> <a class="postdatetime">SHARE</a></div> <div id="share" style="display: none;" align="left"> <p class="comment">Share</p> <img src="http://www.nepalitimes.com/img/icon_facebook.gif" border="0" /> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/issue/2011/07/31/Nation/18418" class="postdatetime" target="_blank">FACEBOOK</a><br /> <img src="http://www.nepalitimes.com/img/icon_digg.gif" border="0" /> <a href="http://www.digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/issue/2011/07/31/Nation/18418" class="postdatetime" target="_blank">DIGG</a><br /> <img src="http://www.nepalitimes.com/img/icon_reddit.gif" border="0" /> <a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/issue/2011/07/31/Nation/18418" class="postdatetime" target="_blank">REDDIT</a><br /> <img src="http://www.nepalitimes.com/img/icon_dilicious.gif" border="0" /> <a href="https://secure.del.icio.us/login?url=http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/issue/2011/07/31/Nation/18418" class="postdatetime" target="_blank">DEL.ICIO.US</a><br /> </div> <div id="refer" style="display: none;" align="left"> <form name="referfrm" method="post" action="/issue/2011/07/31/Nation/18418"> <p class="comment">Referral</p> <div class="articletext"> <strong>Your Name</strong><br /> <input name="sname" class="field" id="sname" size="25" type="text"> <br /> <input name="id" value="issue-18418" type="hidden"> <input value="Nation" name="cat" type="hidden"> <input value="If this is what a small glacial lake flood can do, imagine a big one " name="headline" type="hidden"> <input value="" name="intro" type="hidden"> <input value="ASTRID HOVDEN in HUMLA" name="writer" type="hidden"> <strong> Email</strong><br /> <input name="semail" class="field" id="semail" size="25" type="text"> <br /> <strong>Friend's Email</strong><br /> <input name="temail" class="field" id="temail" size="25" type="text"> <br /> <strong>Message</strong><br /> <textarea name="message" cols="30" rows="8" class="fieldtext" id="message"></textarea> <br /> <input name="refersb" class="fieldtext" value="Refer" id="refersb" type="submit"> </div> </form></div> <div id="editor" style="display: none;" align="left"> <form name="editorfrm" method="post" action="/issue/2011/07/31/Nation/18418?PHPSESSID=0cee0290cbe426588ff539975118b27d"> <p class="comment">Letter to Editor</p> <div class="articletext"> <strong>Your Name</strong><br /> <input name="sname" class="field" id="sname" size="25" type="text"> <br /> <strong>Email</strong><br /> <input value="18418" name="nid" type="hidden"> <input value="Nation" name="cat" type="hidden"> <input value="If this is what a small glacial lake flood can do, imagine a big one " name="headline" type="hidden"> <input name="semail" class="field" id="semail" size="25" type="text"> <br /> <strong>Message</strong><br /> <textarea name="message" cols="25" rows="5" class="fieldtext" id="message"></textarea> <br /> <input name="editorsb" class="fieldtext" value="Submit" type="submit"> </div> </form></div> <br /> <p> </p><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="10"> <tbody> <tr> <td><img src="http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/imgbank/article/2011/nt4902.jpg" border="0" /></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Humla is one of the most remote districts in Nepal, and in a remote corner of Humla lies the settlement of Halji in Limi VDC. On 30 June this village of 400 inhabitants was hit by a flash flood caused by a glacial lake bursting upstream.</p> <p> </p><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="10"> <tbody> <tr> <td><img src="http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/imgbank/article/2011/nt4894.jpg" border="1" /> <div class="credit" align="right">PICS: ASTRID HOVDEN </div> <div class="caption">Glacier snout that hides a lake beneath the ice.</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p> </p><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="10"> <tbody> <tr> <td><img src="http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/imgbank/article/2011/nt4895.jpg" border="1" /> <div class="caption">Collapsed icefall that triggered the glacial lake burst. </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>At around 4:30 pm there was a loud roar from up the valley, and everyone ran out of their houses. At first, the raging brown water was retained by the gabion walls, the last stretch of which was built only a month earlier. Soon, the embankments gave way and the water and the boulders raced towards the village with great force.</p> <p>The ground shook and the water was nearly black because of the landslides along the banks. People managed to evacuate in time and move most of their belongings, but had to watch as their homes and fields were carried away.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="10"> <tbody> <tr> <td><img src="http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/imgbank/article/2011/nt4896.jpg" border="1" /> <div class="caption">Meltpools downstream from the glacier.</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p> </p><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="10"> <tbody> <tr> <td><img src="http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/imgbank/article/2011/nt4901.jpg" border="1" /></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Fortunately no lives were lost, but some livestock was taken by the flood as were two houses and 200 ropanis of farmlands. Some poorer families lost all their fields. Food aid will therefore be needed for the winter. Water mills, bridges and sections of the main trail through the valley and up to high pastures were washed away. </p> <p>The disaster was caused by a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) in the mountains above Halji. Due to global warming the water level of many glacial lakes across the Himalaya have risen dangerously, and could overflow with devastating consequences. The flood at Halji which is the fifth since 2006 has occurrs every year on almost the same date at the end of June.</p> <p> </p><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="10"> <tbody> <tr> <td><img src="http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/imgbank/article/2011/nt4900.jpg" border="1" /> <div class="caption">The flood thunders down the Limi Valley.</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p> </p><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="10"> <tbody> <tr> <td><img src="http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/imgbank/article/2011/nt4899.jpg" border="1" /> <div class="caption">Arrives at the village and takes away houses �</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The glacier lies on a plateau at 5,200-5,400m on the flanks of Mt Gurla Mandata in Tibet and there are five glacial lakes which feed into the river. But the flood was caused by another lake hidden under the glacier which is partly visible through a deep crevasse. Villagers who climbed the glacier just after the flood in 2009 say the lake was partly covered by a big ice sheet about 20-25 meters thick. Parts of this may have broken off and fallen into the lake last month, displacing huge amounts of water and causing the flood.</p> <p>Halji village is constructed around the 11th century Rinchenling Monastery, one of the oldest in Nepal and a potential World Heritage Site. Because of the valley's scenic beauty and location on the pilgrimage path to Mount Kailash at the very end of the Great Himalayan Trail, it is also becoming an increasingly popular destination for trekkers. The village and its 1,000-year-old monastery are now threatened by future floods.</p> <p> </p><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="10"> <tbody> <tr> <td><img src="http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/imgbank/article/2011/nt4898.jpg" border="1" /> <div class="caption">�and farmlands.</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p> </p><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="10"> <tbody> <tr> <td><img src="http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/imgbank/article/2011/nt4897.jpg" border="1" /> <div class="caption">The flood has altered the riverbed, threatening Halji village and its 1,000-year-old monastery.</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p align="center"> </p> <p>There is an urgent need to provide food and rebuild the homes of affected families, as well as to rehabilitate and strengthen the embankments before the next flood. Experts should also assess the risk of future outbursts of the glacial lake and develop a long term strategy to minimise the risks of a future, even bigger, disaster. Long term mitigation strategies may involve controlled drainage of the lake, building of further gabion walls to protect farmlands downstream by diverting water away from the village.</p> <p><em>Astrid Hovden is a PhD fellow at the University of Oslo.</em></p>Renata Marson T. Andrade, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087840659589092698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933714072945118952.post-52679594688175461242011-07-04T05:43:00.000-07:002011-07-04T05:44:36.592-07:00O Risco de rompimento de levees na California<p> People tend to underestimate the power of floods: six inches of fast-moving water can knock you down; two feet of water can float most cars away. Floods kill an average of 127 Americans a year — more than <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/tornadoes/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="More articles about Tornadoes." target="_blank">tornadoes</a> or <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/h/hurricanes_and_tropical_storms/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="More articles about hurricanes." target="_blank">hurricanes</a> — and cause more than $2 billion of property damage annually, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association. </p> <div> <div> </div></div> <div> <h6>Multimedia</h6> </div> <div> <div> <div> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/06/30/magazine/20110703_sacramento.html?ref=magazine" target="_blank"> <img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com//images/2011/06/30/magazine/03Sacramentop_notext190.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="126" width="190" /> <span>Interactive Feature</span> </a> </div> <h6><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/06/30/magazine/20110703_sacramento.html?ref=magazine" target="_blank"> Next Stop, Sacramento</a></h6> <h6> </h6> </div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <h3>Readers' Comments</h3> <div> <blockquote>Share your thoughts.</blockquote> <ul><li><a href="http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/magazine/sacramento-levees-pose-risk-to-california-and-the-country.html#postComment" rel="2p" target="_blank">Post a Comment »</a></li><li><a href="http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/magazine/sacramento-levees-pose-risk-to-california-and-the-country.html" rel="3v" target="_blank">Read All Comments (20) »</a></li></ul> </div></div> <div> <p> This spring, the nation was riveted by images of blown <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/dams_and_dikes/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="Recent and archival news about levees and dams." target="_blank">levees</a> and submerged towns in the Midwest along the Mississippi River. But an even more threatening situation looms in California, especially around the San Francisco Bay Delta. The delta is the link between two-thirds of the state’s fresh-water supply — which originates in the Sierra Nevada and the rivers of the north — and two-thirds of the state’s population, which resides in the south. Starting in the 1870s, farmers began building 1,100 miles of levees around the delta to control floodwaters and create farmland out of tule marshes. Today many of those levees are old, decrepit and leaking. Jeffrey Mount, a geologist at the University of California, Davis, predicts that there is a 64 percent chance of a catastrophic levee failure in the delta in the next 50 years. </p><p> Scientists consider Sacramento — which sits at the confluence of the Sacramento and American Rivers and near the delta — the most flood-prone city in the nation. Experts warn that there are two events that could destroy the levees and set off a megaflood. One is an earthquake; the second is a violent Pacific superstorm, like the one called the Pineapple Express, which sweeps water off the ocean around Hawaii and dumps it on the mainland with firehose intensity while battering the coast with high wind and waves. A megaflood would not arrive as gradual seepage; it would be a rapid submerging of hundreds of square miles. Salt water would be sucked from the bay (in what is known as the big gulp) and impelled into the delta, contaminating drinking supplies for 25 million people, destroying some of the nation’s most productive farmland, washing away buildings, highways, gas lines and railroads and causing landslides. A flood in the delta could sink downtown Sacramento under as much as 20 feet of water, as well as cripple California (the eighth-largest economy in the world), hobble the nation and disrupt global trade. </p><p> Robert Bea, professor of engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, warns: “In terms of damage, deaths and long-term cost, a rupture in the delta levees would be far more destructive than what happened in <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/h/hurricane_katrina/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="More articles about Hurricane Katrina." target="_blank">Hurricane Katrina</a>. This is a ticking bomb.” </p><p> Sacramento has flooded many times, most infamously in 1862, when a 45-day rain turned the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys into vast inland seas. Gov. Leland Stanford attended his inauguration by rowboat, and the state capital was temporarily moved to San Francisco. It was the largest deluge in state history, though geologic records indicate that six other powerful storms swamped the region before then. The chance of a megaflood inundating Sacramento again is not only plausible, predicts the U.S. Geological Survey, but “perhaps inevitable.” </p> <div> <p>Alex Prud’homme (<a href="mailto:alex@alexprudhomme.com" target="_blank">alex@alexprudhomme.com</a>) is the author, most recently, of ‘‘The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the 21st Century.’’ Editor: Ilena Silverman (<a href="mailto:i.silverman-MagGroup@nytimes.com" target="_blank">i.silverman-MagGroup@nytimes.<wbr>com</a>)</p> </div> <div> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <h6>A version of this article appeared in print on July 3, 2011, on page MM34 of the Sunday Magazine with the headline: California’s Next Nightmare.</h6> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>Renata Marson T. Andrade, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13087840659589092698noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933714072945118952.post-28139340785875572692011-06-20T16:49:00.000-07:002011-06-20T16:53:40.450-07:00ISO 31.000 - Gestão de Riscos<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Introdução, Escopo e Princípios</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">A Norma ISO 31.000, em um primeiro momento, não é utilizada para fins de certificação, tendo sido elaborada para atender todos os tipos de organizações, com a finalidade principal de assegurar uma gestão eficaz dos riscos pertinentes às suas atividades</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">. A norma</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> fornece princípios e diretrizes genéricas para a gestão de risco, de forma não especifica, podendo ser aplicada em todos os setores, de forma a auxiliar na tomada de decisão do gestor, devendo estar incluída em todos os processos, envolvendo todos os colaboradores da organização.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">Como princípios básicos, a norma prevê a criação de valor à organização, devendo ser incluída em todos os processos organizacionais, inclusive na tomada de decisões, levando em consideração aspectos humanos e culturais, sendo transparente, dinâmica, iterativa e capaz de reagir à mudanças, proporcionando a melhoria contínua da organização.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Estrutura de Gestão de Riscos<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Para que se obtenha maior eficácia, a estrutura de gestão de risco precisa estar contemplada no sistema de gestão global da organização, devendo esta mostrar comprometimento com todo o processo, a partir da definição e aprovação da política de gestão de risco, sua adequação à política da organização e a destinação dos recursos financeiros, materiais e de pessoal para a sua manutenção.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Antes da concepção da estrutura de gestão de riscos devem ser observados os contextos em que a organização está inserida, levando em consideração aspectos culturais, sociais, políticos, legais e financeiros, além dos aspectos internos, para só então iniciar a construção da política de gestão re riscos, abordando as justificativas, os objetivos, as responsabilidades pertinentes à sua implantação, além da definição dos mecanismos de avaliação, de responsabilização, de comunicação interno e externo, promovendo a integração da gestão de riscos em todo o processo organizacional.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Uma vez concebida a estrutura, inicia-se a implementação da gestão de risco, a partir de uma estratégia previamente definida, observando o momento adequado para sua implantação e obedecendo os requisitos legais aplicáveis. Além disso, devem ser previstos programas específicos de informação, treinamento e monitoramento periódicos, com vistas à busca contínua por melhorias no sistema de gestão de riscos.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Processo de Gestão de Riscos<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>O processo de gestão de risco deve ser parte integrante da gestão organizacional, sendo incorporado em todas as práticas, devendo incluir uma série de fatores:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: 35.4pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">a) Comunicação e consulta: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: 35.4pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Deve ocorrer desde a fase de implantação, a partir de consultas a todas as partes interessadas, abordando questões relacionadas aos riscos, suas causas e conseqüências e as medidas preventivas. É importante para que todos os envolvidos conheçam os fundamentos sobre os quais as decisões são tomadas.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: 35.4pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">b) Estabelecimento do contexto: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: 35.4pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">É o processo de definir os parâmetros internos e externos na gestão do risco e os critérios para a sua avaliação. O contexto deve incluir ambos os parâmetros internos e externos relevantes a empresa.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: 35.4pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Para estabelecer o contexto do processo de gestão de risco se fez necessário definir os objetivos das atividades organizacionais e onde o processo será implementado, entre outras providencias é fundamental saber que a gestão de risco irá variar de acordo com as necessidades da empresa e que deve-se definir as responsabilidades para a gestão do risco.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: 35.4pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">c) Processo de Avaliação de Risco:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: 35.4pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A organização deve identificar o risco, bem como as suas possíveis fontes e áreas de impacto, considerando as possíveis causas e cenários que mostrem as possíveis conseqüências<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: 35.4pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A analise de risco é o processo de entender os riscos e estabelecer os mais apropriados meios de gerir o risco. Este processo envolve descobrir as causas e fontes do risco, seus impactos positivos e negativos bem como a interdependência de diferentes riscos.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Avaliação de risco está associada à tomada de decisões, comparando os niveis de risco encontrados durante o processo de gerenciamento, considerando a tolerância ao risco e os possíveis benefícios que a empresa obterá gerindo o risco.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: 35.4pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">d) Tratamento do Risco:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Para tratarmos os riscos deve-se primeiramente escolher diferentes opções ao risco, é fundamental entender que o tratamento de risco é um processo cíclico que deve avaliar o se risco residual da atividade é tolerável, decidindo continuar uma atividade que gere um aumento no nível de risco ou a sua remoção, observando a relação custo beneficio da ação.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Ao preparar e implementar planos para gestão e tratamento do risco é necessário documentar a escolha de quais opções de tratamento serão implementadas, devendo incluir os benefícios esperados, relatórios de monitoramento entre outras coisas.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: 35.4pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">e) Monitoramento e Análise Crítica: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: 35.4pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">É fundamental que seja feita uma constante revisão e monitoramento do plano de gestão do risco, que deve envolver o aprendizado com eventos recentes, a adequação às novas tecnologias e parâmetros, além dos riscos emergenciais.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: 35.4pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">f) Registros do Processo de Gestão de Riscos: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: 35.4pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Todo processo deve ser rastreável, incluindo os benefícios da reutilização das informações, criando uma base de dados para futuros planos.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: 35.4pt"><span class="Apple-style-span">(Tradução e Resumo: Hugo de Brito, Vinícius Medeiros e Will de Moura).</span></p>Vinícius Adrianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14063551778582669986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933714072945118952.post-36860646137426648952011-06-08T05:14:00.000-07:002011-06-08T05:15:08.076-07:00Desastres naturais deslocaram 42 milhões em 2010, diz estudo<h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 1.5em;"><span style="color: rgb(86, 86, 86); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">O número é creditado ao impacto de megadesastres como as inundações na China e no Paquistão e os terremotos no Chile e Haiti</span></h2> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;">Cerca de 42 milhões de pessoas foram forçadas a fugir de suas casas por conta de desastres naturais no mundo em 2010, mais do que o dobro do número registrado no ano anterior, disseram experts do Centro Internacional de Monitoramento do Deslocamento.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;">Uma razão para o aumento da diáspora podem ser as mudanças climáticas e a comunidade internacional deveria estar fazendo mais para contê-las, disseram os especialistas. Segundo a instituição, a diferença entre os 42 milhões deslocamentos em 2010 e os 17 milhões registrados em 2009 pode ser creditada ao impacto de megadesastres como as inundações na China e no Paquistão e os terremotos no Chile e Haiti.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;">Reportagem da <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Associated Press</b>.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"> O estudo diz que mais de 90% dos deslocamentos por desastres foram causados por riscos relacionados ao clima, como inundações e tempestades que foram provavelmente influenciadas pelo aquecimento global, embora não se saiba a extensão dessa influência.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;">“A intensdidade e a frequência de eventos climáticos extremos está aumentando, e essa tendência deve continuar.Com toda a probabilidade, o número dos afetados e deslocados vai aumentar e as mudanças climáticas induzidas pelo homem vão estar em pleno vigor”, disse Elisabeth Rasmusson, secretária geral do Conselho Norueguês para os Refugiados.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;">O centro de monitoramento e o conselho de refugiados apresentaram o relatório em uma conferência internacional sobre mudanças climáticas e deslocamento, em Oslo. O número de 2010 supera a população de países como a Argentina e a incidência de desastres naturais este ano, até agora, mostra que o alerta não é vão.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;">O terremoto seguido de tsunami que ocorreu em março de 2011 no Japão deixou mais de 10 mil mortos, cerca de 17.500 desaparecidos e meio milhão de desabrigados. Nos EUA, tornados ocorreram do Alabama a Massachusetts, enquanto as inundações castigaram a região que vai de Montana a Louisiana. No sudoeste da cidade de Joplin, no Missouri, o pior tornado do país em seis décadas matou 141 pessoas e destruiu mais de 8 mil casas. A cidade tem 50 mil habitantes.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;">Segundo o estudo, a Ásia foi a região mais atingida por eventos extremos no ano passado, Na China e no Paquistão, enchentes levaram respectivamente 15 e 11 milhões de pessoas a deixarem suas casas.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;">“Há cada vez mais evidências que sugerem que as catástrofes naturais estão aumentando em freqüência e intensidade e que isso está ligado ao processo de longo prazo das mudanças climáticas”, disse Antonio Guterres, Comissário das Nações Unidas para os Refugiados. Ele criticou a comunidade internacional por<br /> falta de vontade política para reduzir o ritmo das mudança climáticas.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;">Reportagem da <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Associated Press</b>, publicada no jornal O Estado de São Paulo em 8 de junho de 2011</p>Renata Marson T. 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