ABSTRACT
COVID-19 pandemic can be considered a biological disaster that has come from the bad risk management by the postmodern society, showing the most varied socio-environmental vulnerabilities, considering that it has not reached everybody equally. Furthermore, it has promoted the selection of service considered essential as well people to be protected while others to be sacrificed for the community benefit, such as a Noah’s Ark, now, a postmodern one.
Goal:
In this context, due to the intrinsic relation between vulnerabilities and risk management, the Theory of Disaster Law’s object of study, this paper aims to analyze what the possibilities to apply that Theory in the COVID-19 pandemic are.
Method:
For that, the methodological quadrinomial was used, having as basic theory the Theory of Disaster Law, of Daniel Faber and Délton Winter de Carvalho, as the method of approach, the option for the systemic-complex one, boarded by Fritjof Capra and Edgar Morin, as a procedure method the bibliographic analysis, based on the file and abstract techniques.
Conclusions and contributions:
It concluded by the possibility of applying the Disaster Law Theory, specially, the socioenvironmental management of risk for COVID-19, identifying itself as a biological disaster.
Keywords:
COVID-19; Biological disaster; Risk management; Theory of Disaster Law; Vulnerability
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