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| Author(s): |
Torres, Pedro Henrique Campello
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de Souza, Daniele Tubino Pante
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Momm, Sandra
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Travassos, Luciana
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Picarelli, Sophia B. N.
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Jacobi, Pedro Roberto
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Moreno, Robson da Silva
Total Authors: 7
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY; v. 143, p. 11-pg., 2023-03-04. |
| Abstract | |
Within the context of climate change and the quest for more sustainable cities, greener urban solutions are gaining traction through emerging concepts that have been orienting municipalities' regeneration and devel-opment agendas, including the so-called nature-based solutions (NbS), which have been discussed, planned, and proposed worldwide by academics, NGOs, and policymakers. Comprising different scales and typologies, NbS makes up a modern toolkit of actions towards decarbonized, climate-resilient, and ecologically healthy cities, claiming ample ecological, social, and economic benefits. A literature analysis indicates a greater presence of research and projects focused on NbS in countries in the Global North than in the South; however, given their accelerated urban growth, lack of green areas, and degradation of local environments, cities of the South urgently need such solutions. Nonetheless, research on the effects of urban greening agendas in the Global North has demonstrated that solutions may be entangled with neoliberal practices of space production that exacerbate inequalities, resulting in harmful social impacts such as displacement of people and increases in land and housing costs. This study seeks to build an anticipatory understanding of practices that articulate NbS in the Global South from a Brazilian viewpoint. Given Brazil's reality of social and environmental injustices, we focus on whether implementing NbS could amplify such problems. Our objective is to contribute to the debate by (1) under-standing how the NbS concept is being appropriated, in practice, in Brazil, and (2) reflecting and pointing out paths and recommendations on how to plan NbS through a justice lens. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 18/12245-1 - Planning in conditions of rapid socio-environmental change: a theoretical-methodological framework for comparative analysis |
| Grantee: | Sandra Irene Momm Schult |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships abroad - Research |
| FAPESP's process: | 15/03804-9 - Environmental governance of macrometropolis paulista in face of climate variability |
| Grantee: | Pedro Roberto Jacobi |
| Support Opportunities: | Research Program on Global Climate Change - Thematic Grants |
| FAPESP's process: | 19/06536-6 - Knowledge and capacity building in the field of planning and governance for metropolitan regions in a context of socioenvironmental challenges and climate change |
| Grantee: | Klaus Frey |
| Support Opportunities: | Regular Research Grants |
| FAPESP's process: | 18/06685-9 - New means of scientific cooperation for innovation in the Socio-environmental Governance of the Macrometropole Paulista |
| Grantee: | Pedro Henrique Campello Torres |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral |