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| Author(s): |
Adriane Gomes Rodrigues Batata
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2011-11-21 |
| Examining board members: |
Leila da Costa Ferreira;
Sônia Regina da Cal Seixas;
Selene de Souza Carvalho Herculano dos Santos;
Marcelo Coutinho Vargas;
Rosana Aparecida Baeninger
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| Advisor: | Leila da Costa Ferreira |
| Abstract | |
Conflicts within the urban environment have been hailed as a major challenge to the metropolitan governance, mainly due to the absence of channels enabling the legitimation of strategies and tools to help overcome the intra-metropolitan inequalities and reach agreements, especially in federalist countries like Brazil. However, some institutions have implemented new arrangements among political economic and social actors, which enable the achievement of an environmental nature of agreements between the municipalities that are intermediary spatialities - between the state and municipality - as the metropolitan areas. These arrangements seek to promote the development and/or quality of life of a given region and are structured around common interests that are specific to municipalities which constitute this same region, and may in some cases stimulate the creation of an environmental identity. Finally, based on the assumption that the institutions responsible for creating/expanding the channels of governance on environmental issues can identify or build environmental metropolitan identities, and that the existence of a specific environmental identity for each region results in diverse models of governance for a same environmental issue between different regions, the paper investigates the existence of environmental identity in metropolitan regions and their influence on the governance of urban environmental issues and on the environmental quality of these regions. To search for evidence to answer the questions proposed, a methodology developed from concepts such as urbanization, metropolization, society of risk/socio-environmental vulnerability, social capital, was applied to two metropolitan regions of São Paulo and corresponding institutions. The results allowed to partially answer questions, however, they point out new perspectives to the study of metropolitan governance in environmental issues through awareness/identification/construction of identities (AU) | |