@Article{GomesMarcSato:2022:CaStCu,
               author = "Gomes, Giselly and Marchezini, Victor and Sato, Michele",
          affiliation = "{Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (UFMT)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Universidade Federal 
                         de Mato Grosso (UFMT)}",
                title = "(In)visibilities About the Vulnerabilities of People with Visual 
                         Impairments to Disasters and Climate Change: A Case Study in 
                         Cuiaba, Brazil",
              journal = "International Journal of Disaster Risk Science",
                 year = "2022",
               volume = "13",
               number = "1",
                pages = "38--51",
                month = "Feb.",
             keywords = "Brazil, Climate injustice, Disaster risk, Environmental education, 
                         Inclusive education, Sight impairment.",
             abstract = "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 studies have analyzed visual 
                         impairment and disaster risk reduction (DRR) in the countries of 
                         Latin America and the Caribbean. This exploratory qualitative 
                         research project analyzed how to include PwVI in the DRR policies 
                         of Brazil. The research question is: how can we include PwVI in 
                         the discussion of DRR and climate change? The response to this 
                         question is part of a joint effort that involved a university, a 
                         hazard monitoring agency, and three institutions that work with 
                         PwVI. The three main results of the project are: (1) a mapping 
                         method to identify the exposure of PwVI to landslides and floods, 
                         and to create tactile risk maps tailored to them; (2) 
                         incorporating the voices of PwVI regarding their vulnerabilities 
                         and capacities with respect to disasters and climate change, 
                         achieved through shared interaction during 15 face to face 
                         interviews and one workshop attended by 100 people; and (3) an 
                         initiative of inclusive education to reduce some of the disabling 
                         barriers that intensify vulnerability.",
                  doi = "10.1007/s13753-022-00394-6",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13753-022-00394-6",
                 issn = "2095-0055",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "Gomes2022_Article_InVisibilitiesAboutTheVulnerab.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "23 maio 2024"
}