Territoriality and disaster: the management of disasters in Brazil based on case study of Civil Defense in Santa Catarina

Abstract The article addresses the issue of disaster management from the case study of Civil Defense of Santa Catarina. It argues that the greater the centralization and technification, the less coordinated and more bureaucratic management becomes. Bureaucratization leads to Disaster Management (DM) instead of Disasters Risk Management (DRM) as advocated by the Hyogo Mark for Action and the Sendai Mark. Important phases of DRM such as community participation and decision-making processes are ignored, as well as the scientific knowledge and local knowledge. These knowledges, important premises for DRM since they act in the resilience reinforcement of a system or community.