Abstract
The article discusses factors that influence the preparation and responses in the general cycle of emergencies and disasters (environmental contexts, social, political, economic, cultural and institutional) integrating psychological, social and physical knowledge about sustainability, vulnerability and risks. The conflict between development, poverty, the environment and peace has become one of the biggest evidence of the human current difficulties.
 Mankind has not only of the achievements and benefits of development; but also, the undesirable effects produced by this, as social inequalities, poverty, environmental degradation and weakening of the sense of community, otherness and security.
 For Vieira (2005, p. 333) "harmonization of relationships that humans have with nature and the obstinate struggle by the pacification of relations between human beings constitute the two sides of the same coin." The idea of sustainable development has a chance to overcome the end envisioned. But there are those who preach the need for a paradigm shift in the concept. In today's society it is the eminence of unsustainability is global economic, social or environmental.
 A "cultural mutation" is necessary for sustainable development if organize around the following key relationships: with nature, with time, between citizens, and with the authority of the State.
 Pol (2002, p. 296) warns that, you can understand why sustainability, has "... a strong load of change of individual and social behavior and therefore requires knowledge of social and psychosocial processes involved."
 Thus, sustainable development requires action that can be called generically of participatory management and environmental education (awareness and availability of resources that lead to the development of habits and skills), to achieve shared social values from the formulation of plans and programmes aimed at changing behaviors and eradication of poverty.
Highlights
What would the man without nature? The question you raise several issues and there would be different ways of interpreting
This report, known as the Brundtland report, environmental degradation has become associated with the degree of poverty of the population, since this is considered a major cause and a major effect of environmental degradation, which resulted in a number of studies aimed to detect any relationship between the condition of poverty and environmental degradation
When trying to answer the question, we found an image of the poor that degrades the environment that emerges from a conventional literature that distorts, which creates the need to establish a new set of analytical categories to understand dynamically the relationship between poverty and the environment
Summary
What would the man without nature? The question you raise several issues and there would be different ways of interpreting. The man needs more of nature and all its benefits, which leads to a rapid pace to take it which is useful for survival This dependence leads to reduction in supply capacity of nature to man. This report, known as the Brundtland report, environmental degradation has become associated with the degree of poverty of the population, since this is considered a major cause and a major effect of environmental degradation, which resulted in a number of studies aimed to detect any relationship between the condition of poverty and environmental degradation This vicious circle between poverty and environmental degradation is questioned by some authors. Highlight the assumptions of literature, considered the mainstream of sustainable development, the Brundtland report (World Commission on environment and Development WCED, 1987) as theoretical basis, as well as the criticism of these assumptions made by authors who do not agree, even in part, with the conditions cited by the report
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