Mobilidade e vulnerabilidade socioambiental: um estudo de caso para Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brasil

Abstract

Mobility or immobility responses to environmental issues are likely to be associated with socio-environmental characteristics and vulnerability of families and the context, and these responses may be a mechanism of adaptation (to environmental events) and reduction or aggravation of vulnerability. In addition, the speed and severity of environmental events may impose the adoption of mobility on individuals. For this purpose, a socio-environmental vulnerability index and mobility typologies were constructed using data from a probabilistic, mutli-stage sample of 1226 urban households collected between 2013 and 2016. The results suggest that although the subgroup of respondents with international mobility experiences is more exposed to socio-environmental risks, it is better able to adapt to the occurrence of socioenvironmental problems and has smaller levels of vulnerability than the subgroup of respondents that has never experienced international mobility.