Victor Marchezini

Victor Marchezini
Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais | CEMADEN · Research and Development

PhD in Sociology
Visiting postdoctoral researcher at Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado at Boulder

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Introduction
Sociologist at Cemaden. Professor at the Doctorate Program on Earth System Science at the National Institute for Space Research (CCST/INPE), and at the Postgraduate Program on Disaster Science (ICT/UNESP). Member of the executive board of RC 39 at the International Sociological Association (ISA) and of the Editorial Boards of the journals Disaster Prevention and Management and Environmental Hazards. Twitter account: @VMarchezini. Website: https://victormarchezini.weebly.com/
Additional affiliations
September 2018 - March 2020
National Institute for Space Research, Brazil
Position
  • Professor
Description
  • I am teaching sociology of climate change.
September 2014 - March 2020
Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais
Position
  • Research
Description
  • Studying the sociocultural and governance aspects of disaster risk management policies, especially warning systems, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary methods
December 2011 - August 2014
Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais
Position
  • Analyst
Education
March 2010 - December 2013
Universidade Federal de São Carlos
Field of study
  • Sociology of Disaster
March 2008 - March 2010
Universidade Federal de São Carlos
Field of study
  • Sociology of Disaster
March 2004 - July 2007
Universidade Federal de São Carlos
Field of study
  • Sociology of Disaster

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Publications (168)
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Purpose This conversation presents the reflections from six international disaster scholars on how disaster capitalism manifested in very different ways in different countries, including Japan, Chile, Brazil, Colombia, India and South Africa, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this paper is to address this issue. Design/methodology/appro...
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Amazonian wildfires are an increasing hazard to ecosystem services and the regional population. Wildfires can turn into transboundary disasters primarily due to the effects of smoke that cross boundaries, compromising human health, disrupting transport, and affecting the regional economy. Wildfires are an increasing hazard at the southwestern amazo...
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According to the Brazilian National Policy for Civil Defense and Protection (PNPDEC), the actors involved in civil defense systems, at all spatial scales (from national to local), must adopt the necessary measures to reduce disaster risks, seeking to give priority to preventive actions related to disaster reduction. In this study we analyze the...
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The disaster database enables managers to support prevention, preparedness, and mitigation actions, especially in Latin American countries, where disaster risk data are scarce. This article surveys and analyses a database of disasters in a medium-sized municipality, using official (civil defense) and unofficial (documentary research) sources. The m...
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Este artigo tem como objetivo apresentar o contexto de participação de estudantes cegos e com baixa visão no Projeto Dados à Prova d ́Água e refletir sobre os desafios e as aprendizagens vivenciadas por eles. Com abordagem qualitativa, a metodologia tem inspiração na Cartografia do Imaginário, apoiando-se na fenomenologia dos quatro elementos, de G...
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Climate crisis requires intergenerational groups' participation to reduce their vulnerability and to promote disaster risk mitigation public policies. This paper analyzes what and how social innovations can nurture risk mitigation public policies to enhance flood resilience in small cities. A mixed-methods approach, which considered a survey with 2...
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El glosario que se presenta en este libro aporta ajustes contextuales realizados por los autores, definiciones técnicas, legales y científicas de documentos y publicaciones nacionales de Perú, Brasil y Bolivia, así como documentos y publicaciones internacionales de la FAO y la Comunidad Andina sobre el manejo del fuego y, en general, sobre declarac...
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Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and have increasing impacts, which disproportionately affect marginalised and impoverished communities. Adapting to the new climatic conditions and building resilience to disaster risks such as floods are some of today’s most significant challenges. This article presents and evaluates a novel method...
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Few studies have analyzed climate change perceptions in the disaster risk management sector. This research aimed to understand how civil defense experts are dealing with the climate change topic: what they learn and think about. An online survey was conducted between Octo�ber and December 2021 with 1,063 participants from civil defense agencies in...
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O artigo analisa as necessidades e capacidades das defesas civis municipais brasileiras em termos de recursos financeiros. O estudo foi baseado em revisão bibliográfica nacional e internacional sobre fundos públicos e desastres, além de discutir os resultados de levantamento do�cumental e de pesquisas empíricas originais qualitativas e quantitat...
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Purpose This article discusses the professional status of civil defense and protection agents and coordinators in Brazil, their working conditions and demands for professionalization in disaster risk management. Design/methodology/approach Two online surveys with operators and civil defense and protection managers and documentary analysis based th...
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Os processos de reconstrução e recuperação em desastres têm pouca visibilidade pública e as pesquisas sobre o tema ainda são escassas, sobretudo no contexto brasileiro. O objetivo deste artigo é analisar as especificidades dos idosos nos processos de reconstrução e recuperação em desastres. Para tanto, baseia-se na pesquisa bibliográfica, na pesqui...
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The text offers a comprehensive and unique perspective on disaster risk associated with natural hazards. It covers a wide range of topics, reflecting the most recent debates but also older and pioneering discussions in the academic field of disaster studies as well as in the policy and practical areas of disaster risk reduction. This book will be o...
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Purpose: The study aims to identify the gaps and the potentialities of citizen-generated data in four axes of warning system: (1) risk knowledge, (2) flood forecasting and monitoring, (3) risk communication and (4) flood risk governance. /Design/methodology/approach: Research inputs for this work were gathered during an international virtual dialo...
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This special issue calls for a change in disaster studies. This edition directly responds to the call for epistemological shifts from the imperative of the “Power, Prestige & Forgotten Values: A Disaster Studies Manifesto” that we endorsed together with 575 scholars from 63 countries since 2019. The rise of knowledge production, indicated by the wo...
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This contributing paper explores the role and the contribution of the public and private sectors in the (re)production and accumulation of disaster risks from a disaster capitalism optic, both in the academic literature and in the policy realm. This study responds to this gap and provides a preliminary international overview of the root causes, beh...
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Alunos do ensino médio de São Luiz do Paraitinga ajudam a monitorar risco de enchentes sao-paulo.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,alunos-do-ensino-medio-de-sao-luiz-do-paraitinga-ajudam-a-monitorar-risco-de-enchentes,70004007723
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People with visual impairments (PwVI) represent a heterogeneous social group who often experience significant disabling barriers in exercising their rights throughout their life course. Understanding dimensions of vulnerability of PwVI to disasters and climate change is an important issue to reduce the culture of neglected disasters. To date, few s...
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El volumen dos del número especial “Descolonización de la ciencia de los desastres: enfoques desde Latinoamérica y el Caribe” (Vol. 6. Núm. 1) busca promover el diálogo para descolonizar los estudios de desastres y trascender a los enfoques, fuentes, conceptos, metodologías, valores y lenguajes occidentales ‘bien establecidos’ que son predominantem...
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Purpose The purpose of this study is to encourage graduate students to facilitate a participatory mapping activity with high school students, to have their voices heard in the disaster risk reduction (DRR) agenda. Design/methodology/approach A participatory mapping, youth-led session, was conducted with 22 high school students, where they had to i...
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O presente relatório apresenta os resultados obtidos pela pesquisa municipal em proteção e defesa civil para a Região Norte do Brasil, desenvolvida no âmbito do Projeto BRA/12/017 - Fortalecimento da Cultura de Gestão de Riscos de Desastres no Brasil. Esta pesquisa contou com a participação de 104 defesas civis municipais dos estados de Tocantins,...
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O presente diagnóstico apresenta os resultados obtidos pela pesquisa municipal em proteção e defesa civil para a Região Centro-Oeste do Brasil, desenvolvida no âmbito do Projeto BRA/12/017 -Fortalecimento da Cultura de Gestão de Riscos de Desastres no Brasil. Esta pesquisa contou com a participação de 132 defesas civis municipais dos estados de Goi...
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O diagnóstico apresentado nesta publicação da Pesquisa Municipal em Proteção e Defesa Civil (Projeto Elos) foi desenvolvido no âmbito da Cooperação Técnica Internacional BRA/12/017 – Fortalecimento da Cultura de Gestão de Riscos de Desastres no Brasil, por meio do Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento (PNUD), com execução nacional da SE...
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O presente relatório apresenta os resultados obtidos pela pesquisa municipal em proteção e defesa civil para a Região Nordeste do Brasil, desenvolvida no âmbito do Projeto BRA/12/017 - Fortalecimento da Cultura de Gestão de Riscos de Desastres no Brasil. Esta pesquisa contou com a participação de 535 defesas civis municipais dos estados de Alagoas,...
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O presente relatório apresenta os resultados obtidos pela pesquisa municipal em proteção e defesa civil para a Região Sudeste do Brasil, desenvolvida no âmbito do Projeto BRA/12/017 - Fortalecimento da Cultura de Gestão de Riscos de Desastres no Brasil. Esta pesquisa contou com a participação de 653 defesas civis municipais dos estados de Espírito...
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O presente relatório apresenta os resultados obtidos pela pesquisa municipal em proteção e defesa civil para a Região Sul do Brasil, desenvolvida no âmbito do Projeto BRA/12/017 - Fortalecimento da Cultura de Gestão de Riscos de Desastres no Brasil. Esta pesquisa contou com a participação de 569 defesas civis municipais dos estados de Paraná, Rio G...
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The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015−2030’s (SFDRR) framing moved away from disaster risk as a natural phenomenon to the examination of the inequality and injustice at the root of human vulnerability to hazards and disasters. Yet, its achievements have not seriously challenged the long-established capitalist systems of oppression t...
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This article investigates the role of digital technologies and data innovations, such as big data and citizen-generated data, to enable transformations to sustainability. We reviewed recent literature in this area and identified that the most prevailing assumption of work is related to the capacity of data to inform decision-making and support tran...
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Esta breve introducción para el número especial “Descolonización de la ciencia de los desastres: enfoques desde Latinoamérica y Caribe” (Vol. 5, Núm. 2) busca promover la pluralidad del conocimiento mediante la valoración de las ontologías y epistemologías locales para descolonizar los estudios de desastres y trascender a los enfoques, fuentes, con...
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Sociologia Pragmática das Transformações em Diálogo: Riscos e Desastres no Brasil Contemporâneo. Fabrício Cardoso de Mello, Teresa da Silva Rosa, Marcos Barreto de Mendonça, Francis Chateauraynaud, Josquin Debaz (organizadores).
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Purpose The objective of this study was to investigate how participatory 3D mapping can promote local intergenerational engagement for disaster risk reduction. Design/methodology/approach This investigation was carried out in the city of São Luiz do Paraitinga, Brazil, where a low-cost participatory 3D model (P3DM) was used together with secondary...
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This paper advances the literature on multiple knowledge systems, showing how Traditional and Local Knowledge (TLK) systems can collaborate with scientific knowledge to advance understanding of the slow-onset effects of climate change adaptation in Latin America and the Caribbean. Such an approach implies acknowledging the cultural heterogeneity of...
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Con el objetivo de generar evidencias y datos científicos que nos ayuden a conocer en profundidad a las poblaciones afectadas en la región latinoamericana, especialmente a las personas en movilidad, en riesgo de desplazamiento, así como también las circunstancias que provocan situaciones de inmovilidad en estos contextos, a lo largo de este trabajo...
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Resumo A Política Nacional de Proteção e Defesa Civil, instituída pela Lei nº 12.608/2012, atribui aos municípios diversas competências em prevenção, mitigação, preparação, resposta e recuperação voltadas à proteção e defesa civil. A realidade dos municípios brasileiros, em especial aqueles de pequeno porte, tem sido a convivência com a escassez de...
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Neste relato de experiências trazemos uma breve revisão da literatura, em sua maioria de artigos e relatórios técnicos produzidos pelos projetos de Pesquisa MAP-FIRE e Acre-Queimadas sobre a ocorrência e impactos de incêndios florestais na Amazônia, com detalhamento para a região MAP (Madre de Dios - Peru, Acre – Brasil e Pando-Bolívia). Os incêndi...
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The social and human sciences have had a minor role in the studies of climate change. There remains a significant gap in our knowledge and understanding of the many facets of this theme. The educational sector has been neglected in the climate change scientific debate, although it is acknowledged as a key sector. This article aims to understand how...
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Jovens na composição de diálogos cartografados sobre prevenção de desastres Redução do risco de desastres e a resiliência no meio rural e urbano. Neste artigo apresentam-se os resultados da experiência da oficina de Cartografia Social, com algumas narrativas da ofi cina de História Oral. Primeiramente descrevem-se os conceitos científi cos básicos...
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A gestão de riscos e os chamados à resiliência têm sido feitos em um vazio conceitual e político, distantes das experiências das pessoas em situação de vulnerabilidade e do enfoque da proteção social, tão necessários às realidades da Macrometrópole Paulista, onde as vítimas do modelo de crescimento econômico excludente convivem – há gerações – com...
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Public financial aid policies for disaster response actions are a poorly studied topic. This article analyzed information extracted from the databases of the State of Emergency and State of Public Calamity decrees and the costs of disaster relief and response in Brazil, in the period 2013-2017, based on its spatial-temporal distributions. Disaster...