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| Author(s): |
Maria Abadia da Silva Alves
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Economia |
| Defense date: | 2007-12-14 |
| Examining board members: |
Carlos Antonio Brandão;
Raquel Rolnik;
Josmar Gilberto Cappa;
Pedro Luiz Barros Silva;
Ulysses Cidade Semeghini
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| Advisor: | Carlos Antonio Brandão |
| Abstract | |
The objective of this thesis is, initially, to identify from a theoretical and analytical perspective, what is a ¿Metropolitan Problem¿ and what are the characteristics, capabilities and limitations of the metropolitan action. The argument put forward is that there are different needs from the metropolitan areas that can be treated under different institutional arrangements, which are, in this work, exemplified by the experiences of international metropolitan government in five countries and other arrangements such as territorial pacts, consortia and municipal contracting based on the French case. We will demonstrate that the metropolitan problems require different scales of action, which are not restricted only to the metropolitan scale. From this analytical breakdown, we will review the specific case of the Campinas Metropolitan Area (CMA), identifying the characteristics and key constraints in managing this region, from two different dimensions: one political and institutional, which is part of the Brazilian federative structure, and other more specific, linked to regional reality, emerging from its recent institutionality. Also taking the specific case of CMA, we select some metropolitan problems (Environmental Sanitation, Transportation, Housing and Public Security), from which we discuss the interaction of different scales in each of these areas of expertise. Finally, we will make a brief diagnosis of each of these problems as well as the main metropolitan actions tried and implemented recently (AU) | |