Desastres que não deixaram saudades: construção das enchentes em desastres socioambientais nas inundações de 1990 e 2015 no município de Saudades, SC

Abstract

Every year, various locations around the world are affected by a variety of socio-environmental disasters such as droughts, frosts, hail, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, tsunamis, landslides, and other damages. In Saudades, a small municipality in the western part of the state of Santa Catarina, has in its history the occurrence of several floods that caused many damages, mainly affecting the urban part that established the banks of the river Saudades and two of its tributaries the river Taipas and river Bonito. And in this research we analyze the disasters that occurred in the municipality, in 1990 and 2015, in order to understand how the flooding process occurred as socioenvironmental disasters in Saudades. Through the methodology of Environmental History, focusing on the field of disasters, starting from local and regional history, taking into account the records of various floods, giving a special focus on the floods of 1990 and 2015. We use as main sources photographs and newspapers. The floods are understood as socioenvironmental disasters, as they result from the equation of natural factors (intense rains, declivity, soil type, etc.), as well as of Anthropic actions (deforestation, disordered occupation, urbanization, industrialization, etc.) (NODARI, ESPÍNDOLA, LOPES, 2015). Certain event only becomes a disaster from the perception and human presence generating human, material, economic or environmental damages and losses.