Urban restructuring and the environment: the case of São Paulo

• Grant number: 95/04717-7
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: October 01, 1995
• End date: September 30, 1996
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Other specific Sociologies
• Principal Investigator: Daniel Joseph Hogan
• Grantee: Daniel Joseph Hogan
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The aim is to evaluate the environmental consequences of the process of urban restructuring of the metropolitan region of São Paulo, taking as reference the double process of de-industrialization and reinforcement of the metropolis as a center for services. The abrupt change in the structure of employment, as well as the increase in relative poverty deriving from this process of restructuring, induces growing portions of the population to reside in environmentally inadequate areas. The eastern zone of the city of São Paulo is used as case study, observing the evolution of the population residing in areas subject to flooding, as well as their economic and social conditions. (AU)