Engineering and Environmental Geology and Risk Management

This research group aims to broaden the knowledge about how to manage risks and disasters in Brazil and the world, with a focus on research and geological-geotechnical characterization, in cartography for territorial planning, in the social construction of risk and in the scenario of climate change. Risks typically faced by the National Civil Protection and Defence System and specific risks of undertakings, such as engineering and mining works, will be addressed. It aims to discuss and build, in a multidisciplinary way, but from the conceptual tools of engineering and environmental geology, the confrontation of natural and technological risks in the different stages of risk management, involving scientific concepts, methodological proposals and public policies.