ABSTRACT
Disaster Risk Management and Health Emergencies is one of the important themes in the 2030 Agenda. In Brazil, it presents acute contours, considering that the occurrence and magnitude of these events have grown. Major efforts and investments focused on Disaster Risk Management have been made. A fundamental element is to incorporate popular knowledge in the models of analysis. In this sense, residents of Nova Friburgo, teaching institutions and/or research and public authorities created, in 2014, a collaborative network with the objective of reducing disaster risks. One of the actions recommended by this network is the construction of a Geographic Information System (GIS) capable of supporting the activities of risk management of disasters and health emergencies. The present work discusses the construction of this database. Efforts were made to survey, organize and systematize geographic information from different sources and scales, in addition to participatory mapping techniques for gathering information from residents. As a result, this GIS has become a tool for integrating scientific and popular knowledge capable of subsidizing the set of processes related to Disaster Risk Management and Health Emergencies at a local scale.
KEYWORDS
Geographic information systems; Risk management; Community-based participatory research