Investigation and analysis of environmental sanitation governance

• Grant number: 21/12004-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: November 01, 2021
• End date: March 31, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Urban and Regional Planning - Urban and Regional Services
• Principal Investigator: Klaus Frey
• Grantee: Luís Gustavo de Almeida Branco
• 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 project aims to analyses the factors and conditions for innovative governance of environmental sanitation in the São Paulo Macrometropolis. The analytical framework is based on the current conditions and the necessity to advance toward integrated and participatory governance of public policies and programs in view of climate variabilities, increasing social demands, and significant socio-territorial transformation, as decisive determinants of adaptive capacity and resilience of ecosystems and socio-political systems. The research addresses the main factors that result in political-administrative conflicts and generates impacts on the implantation, sustainability, and effectiveness of a new perspective on environmental sanitation governance implying the possibility to promote transparency and social participation in public policymaking in view of emergent conflicts and their different forms of manifestation. (AU)