A gestão municipal para a adaptação dos riscos e desastres climáticos: Centro de Operações Rio e a coordenação de políticas públicas

Abstract

We live in a period of global climate change with severe climate manifestations, where rising global temperatures intensify the risks of climate disasters. Although the issue is considered a global problem, the consequences are perceived more seriously at the local level, and this complex reality presents difficulties for all, especially those responsible for public management. In this sense, the municipal sphere needs to work with active and coordinated public policies among its organs and with other spheres of government, as well as to involve the private sector in dealing with the issue of adaptation in view of the global dimension of climatic phenomena. This research aims to discuss the problem of the Municipal Coordination of Public Policies to deal with the adaptation to extreme events caused by climate change, and to analyze the importance of the Centro de Operações Rio (COR), located in Rio de Janeiro, as an instrument for the coordination of Public Policies. Two theoretical lines were explored in this research: the first one refers to the study of urban climatic risks, identifies what these risks are, their impacts and the consequences. This research presents a history of the climatic disasters that impacted the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro from 1991 to 2012, and showed the city's lack of preparation and vulnerability for adaptation and coping with these phenomena. The second theoretical line concerns the coordination of public policies - discusses both concepts and coordination in the horizontal, federative and in the relations between the public sector and the private segment. This research also presents the COR, its functions, organization and processes. As a result, this research argues that coordination consists of an important dimension of municipal public management and that COR as a public policy, but also as an organ that brings together in the same environment different agents involved with the daily routine of an urban center, is fundamental for the adaptation to the risks and climatic disasters of the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro.