(Un)Safe Landscape: Vulnerabilities in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Faced with increasing violence in large urban areas in Brazil, the main objective of this research is to establish connections between vulnerabilities and violence in the city of Curitiba, Paraná State, as a case study. Based on the theoretical references, the environmental constraints, landscape components, and socioeconomic conditions were assessed. In this context, the relation between social-environmental vulnerability and homicide number was determined based on spatial analysis techniques, notably geographically weighted regression (GWR) processed in ArcGis 10.6 software. The results show that this model explains 95.3% of this kind of crime incidence in the neighborhoods of the city studied. However, it can be concluded that the reduction of the social and environmental vulnerability would be a determinant factor to decrease the criminality levels in Curitiba.

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978-1-944214-31-9