Efeitos territoriais da covid-19, face as vulnerabilidades socioespaciais na cidade de Belém, Pará

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic on a planetary scale has been the object of intense changes at the global level, on multiple scales, reverberating dilemmas inherent to the conditions and social practices that have been established throughout history. The escalation of the aforementioned pandemic exposed a complex set of socio-spatial vulnerabilities linked to the unequal insertion of the brazilian and amazonian territory in the technical and territorial division of labor, as well as the precarious conditions of urban and health infrastructure, essential elements for the fight against COVID-19. On a local scale, the population of the city of Belém was deeply impacted by a mostly unfavorable conjuncture added to the pandemic, which claimed thousands of lives. The high number of deaths in neighborhoods and territories on the outskirts of Belém should be highlighted here, indicating different scales, movements, rates of dispersion of COVID-19 and their possible links with levels of vulnerabilities and socio-spatial inequalities, associated with accessibility to urban facilities, such as running water, sanitary sewage and housing conditions in Belém. In view of the particularities of the spatial condition of the city of Belém, this research is relevant due to the need to understand the territorial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, from an interscalar movement in global and national dimensions. The hypothesis is defended that the current dynamics related to the territorial effects of COVID-19 are closely connected to the conditions of socio-spatial vulnerability in the city. The research, therefore, consists of a case study that, from a methodological point of view, will be carried out through a survey and bibliographic and documental analysis, cartographic production, qualitative systematic observations, application of survey and statistical analysis. Therefore, in that dissertation, the main elements of the research developed are presented, as well as a propositional path based on the dynamics of smartie cities for the consolidation of a sustainable city.