Perceptibilidade, risco e vulnerabilidade em Climatologia: um estudo de caso no Porto

The way how people understand and record in their memory the climatic changes is too complex. The evaluation of the intensity and magnitude of several evidences of climatic variability and consequently the Risk Perception depends on their capacity to anticipate, cope with, identify and imagine the catastrophic outcome scenario. The nature and relevance of the event itself is not the most important factor taken in to account to classify the climatic change evidences.