Investigação e análise da governança em saneamento ambiental

• Grant number: 21/05293-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: June 01, 2021
• End date: October 31, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Urban and Regional Planning
• Principal Investigator: Klaus Frey
• Grantee: Gabriel Fernandes da Cunha
• Host Institution: Centro de Engenharia, Modelagem e Ciências Sociais Aplicadas (CECS). Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC). Ministério da Educação (Brasil). Santo André , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 15/03804-9 - Environmental governance of macrometropolis paulista in face of climate variability, AP.PFPMCG.TEM

Abstract

This subproject I aims to analyses the main factors and conditions for innovative approaches in environmental sanitation governance in the São Paulo Macrometropolis. The analytical framework is based on the existing empirical conditions and the need to move towards integrated and participatory governance of public programs and policies in the face of climate variability, growing social demands and significant socio-territorial transformations, as main determinants of adaptive capacity and resilience of ecological and socio-political systems. The research addresses the main factors that result in political-administrative conflicts and their impacts on the implementation, sustainability and effectiveness of a new perspective for environmental sanitation governance and the possibility of promoting transparency and social participation in public policies in the face of emerging conflicts and their different forms of manifestation. Specifically, this research project of scientific initiation gives continuity to the research on experiences of depollution and renaturalisation of urban rivers with an emphasis on the case of the Pinheiros River in São Paulo. The project also foresees the mapping of international experiences with the possibility of a research stay in Germany, already envisaged in the previous grant, which however could not be carried out due to the pandemic crisis.