Environmental Governance of the São Paulo Macrometropolis : Perspectives on Climate Variability / edited by Pedro Roberto Jacobi, Alexander Turra, Célio Bermann, Edmilson Dias de Freitas, Klaus Frey, Leandro Luiz Giatti, Luciana Travassos, Paulo Antônio de Almeida Sinisgalli, Sandra Momm, Silvia Zanirato, Pedro Henrique Campello Torres.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jacobi, Pedro Roberto, editor.

Series:

The Urban Book Series, 2365-7588

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science.

Geography.

Urban policy.

Environmental management.

Governance and Government.

Regional Geography.

Urban Policy.

Environmental Management.

Local Subjects:

Governance and Government.

Regional Geography.

Urban Policy.

Environmental Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (405 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2024.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024.

Summary:

This book presents a set of chapters produced by six research groups that developed the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) Thematic Project Environmental Governance of the São Paulo macrometropolis (SPMM) in the face of Climate Variability (2017–2022). It represents an academic experience based on the articulation of knowledge and interdisciplinary dialogue. For this publication, the individual research groups benefitted from internal expertise and interdisciplinary input, reflecting the collaborative process of the entire team. The SPMM is characterized by the diversity and complementarity of economic, social and environmental functions exercised in its territory, comprising 174 municipalities, with the capital city of São Paulo as its polarizing center. It is structured from a set of five metropolitan regions, two urban agglomerates and one micro-region—not institutionalized—in the State of São Paulo, sheltering around 34 million people who inhabit the richestand economically strongest region in Brazil. The SPMM, one of the urban territorial clusters of greatest expression in the southern hemisphere, is a strategic arena for the formulation and implementation of planning, governance and trans- and multi-scalar regional public policies. The English translation of this book from its Portuguese original manuscript was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision of the content was done by the volume editors.

Contents:

Part 1: Environmental sanitation governance

Environmental sanitation in the São Paulo Macrometrópolis in view of climate change

Nexus for urban resilience in the face of climate change: Policies and synergies in the context of a macrometropolis

Water security, climate change and the Paulista Macrometropole: Challenges from a critical perspective

Social and socio-environmental indicators and challenges for São Paulo Macrometropolis

Part 2: Territorialities, spatialities and innovation in environmental governance

Planning in the São Paulo Macrometropolis: Research balance and emerging themes

Tekoá and the São Paulo Macrometropolis: Reflections on the social production of space

System, practices, and culture of environmental planning in the São Paulo Macrometropolis in context of climate change: Debate from the planning artifacts

From the social construction of risks to the sociotechnical transition: Discussing possibilities to face urban floods in the SPMM

Part 3: Small towns in a metropolized space

Social-environmental vulnerability and adaptive capacity of SPMM's small cities in the face of climate emergency

Protected areas and local development: Limits and possibilities in the small towns of the metropolitan region of the Paraíba Valley and Northern Coast in the São Paulo Macrometropolis

Water security of rural populations in the São Paulo Macrometropolis

Adaptation to climate variability in the São Paulo Macrometropolis: A debate from climate justice perspective

Part 4: São Paulo city's urbanization evolution and its impact on the regional atmospheric patterns: Numerical simulations of present and future climate

Relationship between urbanization and precipitation in the São Paulo Macrometropolis

Contribution of CMIP models in the formulation of adaptive public policies

Hydrological modeling of urbanized basins

Land use and land cover changes in the São Paulo Macrometropolis

Climate shift: An approach to its effects on the rainfall regime

Part 5: The governance of energy issues in the context of the SPMM

Smart cities: Limits and possibilities in the São Paulo Macrometropolis

Energy justice and distributed photovoltaic power generation in São Paulo

The context and evolution of the distributed generation in the São Paulo Macrometropolis

Part 6: The ecosystem services approach in the dynamics of environmental governance

Critical discussion of the concept of ecosystem services at São Paulo Macro Metropolis

Economic, ecological and social-cultural ecosystem services valuation: Contributions, limits and theoretical disputes

Models, tools and instruments for ecosystem services assessment and support for decision making process in a macrometropolitan scale

Public policies, ecosystem services and environmental governance in Brazil: An analytical review of public policies at legal, social, and institutional arrangements, at the federal, state, and municipal levels

Part 7: Social learning in the MacroAmb project

Dialogue and social learning: Analyzing the challenges of integrating different knowledges in an interdisciplinary research

Synthesis and final words of the book.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3-031-59611-0