Alexandre Pereira Santos

Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich | LMU · Department of Geography

Scientific research on multiple stressors, compound hazards, and systemic risks presents missed opportunities for integration. We present a transdisciplinary framework that seeks to connect evidence on health and climate crises in the Anthropocene. To this end, we review research on multiple stressors, compound hazards, and systemic risks along the...

Reducing future climate vulnerability at the local level depends on consistent policies and setting clear roles and responsibilities. Unfortunately, these are often missing in developing countries, given that different agencies and actor groups develop local adaptation and urbanisation policies with little streamlining and integration. More fundame...

Linking socioeconomic and spatial structural data is a key research gap in the assessment of urban climate risk. Urban populations are increasingly exposed to adverse effects of climate change, particularly in coastal urban areas in the Global South, where information is scarce. Researchers often rely on survey results, which deliver highly detaile...

Brazil was severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and cases and mortality data had problems of timeliness and correctness, hindering risk analysis. We have implemented a mixed-methods approach providing data interoperability to understand the relationship between risk and inequality. We implement a GIS-based risk score and focus groups in São...

Global crises such as climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic do not affect cities uniformly. These crises converge in urban areas and often interact through their primary and secondary impacts with the vulnerability of urban populations. This paper investigates urban development dynamics and socio-environmental vulnerability in a megalopolis in t...

In the early 2000s, Web 2.0 technologies prompted an explosion in geographic data that include Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), a set of methods that brings user contribution to the center of data acquisition. These methods increase the capacity of community-driven and local initiatives to create geographic information and close existing d...

Modeling experts have been continually researching the interplay of human mobility and COVID-19 transmission since the outbreak of the pandemic. They tried to address this problem and support the control of the pandemic spreading at the national or regional levels. However, these modeling approaches had little success in producing empirically verif...

Cities in the Anthropocene are increasingly affected by multiple, concurrent and interacting hazards that lead to deaths, economic losses, and suffering for millions of people every year. These hazards may trigger crises that impact urban areas across their economic, social, political, institutional, infrastructural and technological systems. In a...

How just are risk responses that worsen vulnerability in the long term? Should the urban poor be left with self-reliance when facing hazards in the Anthropocene? This research investigates urban development and vulnerability in the Anthropocene. While it is known that informal settlements face greater hazards than most urbanized areas, there are di...

The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil provided one of the most severe examples of its impacts on health and society. The country had death rates above the global average and acute impacts in increased unemployment, poverty, and threats to food security marked along ethnic and social lines. This study asks how different degrees of vulner...

The early 2000s witnessed an explosion of available geographical information made possible by Web 2.0 technologies that include Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), a set of methods that brings user contribution to the center of geographic information acquisition. These methods increase the capacity of community-driven and local initiatives to...

Este artigo apresenta uma reflexão sobre o padrão de urbanização do município de Lajeado/RS a partir da relação entre densidade e infraestrutura. Ele apresenta revisão sobre os parâmetros de qualidade de infraestrutura segundo a literatura científica e boas práticas de planejamento. Adicionalmente, como método de estudo, apresenta análises das infr...

O projeto de extensão Jaguarão: Horizonte Urbano no Pampa foi desenvolvido com o objetivo de criar diretrizes de planejamento urbano para os temas de mobilidade, habitação e zonas de livre comércio para o município de Jaguarão, no Rio Grande do Sul, localizado na fronteira binacional entre Brasil e Uruguai. Este artigo visa apresentar e discutir-at...

Resumo Os processos de formação de áreas de pobreza nas periferias urbanas são fenômenos multifacetados, compostos pela influência de numerosos agentes com ações estratégicas e vinculados à diferenciação e à segregação socioespacial. Ciclos de crescimento e redefinição do valor da terra inserem a forma urbana nesse contexto, ampliando a segregação,...

Peripheral areas of poverty take shape through multifaceted phenomena in which the influence of numerous agents is perceived. These processes engage urban form through growth and land-valuing cycles that present strong interaction with the processes of social differentiation and segregation. Complexity, self-organization and emergency theories may...

The study of the complex dynamics that engage urban form presents powerful instruments to understand the driving forces of contemporary urban development. This research intends to test traditional urban growth tendencies against informal development mechanisms and decision-making behaviors of competition in geosimulated environments. The empirical...

Este trabalho apresenta um relato da experiência prática e uma crítica aos chamados Planos Municipais de Habitação Social, instrumento recente da política habitacional brasileira, inserida no marco geral da política urbana do país. É descrito o sistema geral de financiamento e estímulo à organização local do setor habitacional, especialmente àquele...