Climate Change, Disaster Risk, and the Urban Poor

ANNEX 7: SÃO PAULO CASE STUDY

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Figure A7.3 São Paulo City Social Vulnerability Index, IPVS

R1- No vulnerablility R2- Very low vulnerablility R3- Low vulnerability R4- Medium vulnerability R5- High vulnerability R6- Very high vulnerability

Source: HABISP.

of the urban expansion. The periphery concentrates the majority of the poorer inhabitants (the average household income is half the average for the city and the per capita household income is up to three times lower than the city rate). Life expectancy in São Paulo is 71 years. The mortality rate is 6.53 for each thousand and the child mortality rate is 15.83 for each thousand. The city has 4.89 percent illiteracy among youth above 15 years old. Almost 47 percent of

Climate Change, Disaster Risk, and the Urban Poor

Published on Apr 26, 2012

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Poor people living in slums are at particularly high risk from the impacts of climate change and natural hazards. They live on the most vulnerable lands within cities, typically areas that are deemed undesirable by others and are thus affordable. Residents are exposed to the impacts of landslides, sea-level rise, flooding, and other hazards. Exposure to risk is exacerbated by overcrowded living conditions, lack of adequate infrastructure and services, unsafe housing, inadequate nutrition, and poor health. These conditions can turn a natural hazard or change in climate into a disaster, and result in the loss of basic services, damage or destruction to homes, loss of livelihoods, malnutrition, disease, disability, and loss of life.

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