| Summary: | The study of urban climate (Monteiro, 1976), in its rhythmic analysis, has served as a reference to understand how changes in the socio-spatial dynamics of urban areas reach the atmospheric systems, and how their effects affect, above all, life in society (and vice versa). Located on the coastal strip of the state of Sergipe, the municipality of Barra dos Coqueiros, the focus of this study, has its urban space expanded since the 2000s, and remains today, attracting economic activities, services, and especially migrants motivated by real estate speculation. With a predominantly hot and humid tropical climate, the occurrence of extreme rainfall events concentrated in the fall and winter is motivated by the influence of the eastern wave disturbances (DOLs) and the Antarctic polar mass; as a consequence, precipitation produces flooding points throughout the urban site due to the relatively flat topography. Being bordered by the Sergipe, Pomonga, and Japaratuba rivers, the influence of the ebb and flow of the ebb tides also contributes to the occurrence of floods in the city. In view of this situation, arising from urbanization and flaws in the drainage network (a factor that prevents the runoff of accumulated rainfall), the population is exposed to hybrid risks that intensify in socially and environmentally vulnerable spaces occupied by inhabitants with lower socioeconomic standards. In this sense, we mention the risks of flooding for those who live in the central region and in specific places in the neighborhood Atalaia Nova; also the risks of overflowing and of pathologies by contamination of the waterway of the population who live along the Guaxinim canal; as well as the risks of flooding, landslides, pathologies, in addition to the loss of property, safety and life itself of those who live in the semi-structured periphery of the city, in the sectors Atalainha and Travessa dos Pedreiros. From this context, we highlight the perception of the residents in relation to the climate and the impacts on the city's spaces ...
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