Enchente Anunciada: A Construção do Desastre Socioambiental no Município de Saudades, Santa Catarina – Brasil

Abstract

The municipality of Saudades, located in the west of Santa Catarina, was occupied more intensively in the 20th century. This occupation process did not take into account the flooding of the river that cuts through the municipality. The objective of the present work is to analyze how the flood that occurred in the municipality of Saudades in 2015 became a socio-environmental disaster, as well as to understand which human actions were linked to this event. To achieve these objectives, it was used the theoretical contribution of Environmental History and History of socio-environmental disasters. As sources, periodicals of local circulation, government reports and IBGE data were used. It was found that even the floods being recurrent in the memory of residents of Saudades, little has been done to contain or reduce the socio-environmental impacts caused by the floods.