Poliguard Project

 Estimates that 1.81 billion people face significant flood risk worldwide, substantially higher than the 1.47 billion estimated in our initial study. Our updated study uses more accurate data on fluvial, pluvial, and coastal hazards, as well as subnational poverty. It also estimates that 170 million extremely poor people are facing flood risk and its devastating long-term consequences. Together, these findings provide alarming insights into the scale of people’s exposure and their vulnerabilities to flood hazards.

The poliguard project consists of reusing plastic and its physical and structural capabilities, such as buoyancy, resistance and density.

All these capabilities are aimed at adaptability to socio-economic damages of the population affected by floods.

Life protection "aid in a possible drowning situation", control and reduction of losses of basic items such as food, clothing, medicines and electronics.

Flood risk already affects 1.81 billion people. Climate change and unplanned urbanization could worsen exposure

Population in rural, urban, riverside and coastal areas suffer from flood risks an almost universal threat, affecting people in all 188 countries covered in this study,

The estimates show that 1.81 billion people, or 23% of the world population, are directly exposed to flood depths greater than 0.15 meters in a 1-in-100-year flood event, thus posing significant risk to lives and livelihoods.  Of these, 89% live in low- and middle-income countries. Moreover, 780 million flood-exposed people live on less than $5.50 a day, and 170 million flood-exposed people live in extreme poverty (on less than $1.90 a day). In short, 4 in every 10 people exposed to flood risk globally live in poverty.

We have already carried out work in the field with the population and found a lack of adaptive and resilient technologies designed to protect and help those affected.

personally I have been through a flood situation and I understand the vulnerability situation during and after this situation!

Team, director and indirect participants,
• Prof. Ivan Vieira Gama - Production Engineering and Product Engineering.
• Dr. Prof. Eng. Danilo Marin Fermino - Development of Plastic Products,
• Dr. Prof. Paulo Quintairos - PhD in Physics.
• Mr. Cesar Marelli - SABIC Market development, South America.
• Dr. Prof. Lourenço Magnoni Júnior - Integrated Center for Natural Disasters (CIADEN).
• Mr. Tiago Molina Schnorr National Secretariat for Civil Defense and Protection – SEDEC – CENAD.

We are dealing with an innovative use and concept in your proposal, the attention is little and bureaucracy prevent synergies between interested parties.

In short, in Brazil there are many difficulties in developing innovation!

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Flood risk already affects 1.81 billion people. Climate change and unplanned urbanization could worsen exposure

The estimates show that 1.81 billion people, or 23% of the world population, are directly exposed to flood depths greater than 0.15 meters in a 1-in-100-year flood event, thus posing significant risk to lives and livelihoods.  Of these, 89% live in low- and middle-income countries. Moreover, 780 million flood-exposed people live on less than $5.50 a day, and 170 million flood-exposed people live in extreme poverty (on less than $1.90 a day). In short, 4 in every 10 people exposed to flood risk globally live in poverty.

"I do not seek financial funds!"

I seek attention, dialogue and understanding from people interested and focused on innovating, and through innovation contribute to the improvement and help of society as a whole. I believe that these foundations are the pillars of a large and renowned institution like MIT SOLVE.

Brazil is a country formed by an immense ethnic and cultural miscegenation, socially we are more accepting and tolerant of inclusions.