Os desastres ambientais em Petrópolis-RJ e a (não) previsão de medidas de prevenção no Plano Diretor da Cidade

The environmental disasters at Petropolis-RJ and the (no) prediction of prevention measures at its Master Plan

Resumen

Thinking about the composition of he cities nowadays is thinking about the concern with the well-being and the social function fot the present and also for the future. Based on that, de Master Plan shows up as onde of the most important instruments that are able to promote de urban policy, with objectives and goals to be reached for a healthy urban development.  However, cities that have Master Plans did not stop soffering with recuring problems, like the case of Petrópolis, at Rio de Janeiro, that in 2022 saw one of the worst catastrophes caused by rain, with landslides, floods, burials and deaths. In this way, this current study had as its objective to verify the existence or not of predictions at the Master Plano of the city about measures that seek to avoid the impact of the rain for the population, and also to reduce the big catastrophes. For thtat, it was used the descritif method, establishing as its point the episodes lived by the petropolitans at february of this year.