scholarly journals Constructed Governance as Solution to Conflicts in E-Waste Recycling Networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1701
Author(s):  
Fernanda Pedro ◽  
Ernesto Giglio ◽  
Luis Velazquez ◽  
Nora Munguia
Keyword(s):  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Electronic Waste ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Recycling Rate ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Recycling Networks ◽  
Collective Process ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

Electronic waste (e-waste) has become an increasingly pressing problem worldwide because of the increase in the volume of waste, without a corresponding increase in the recycling rate. E-waste recycling models show a low percentage of reuse, at around 17.4% in the world, 11% in Latin America, and 3% in São Paulo City, Brazil. The sources of conflicts relating to e-waste recycling networks are diverse, including asymmetries of objectives, knowledge, ethical values, and culture of sustainability, which indicates the need for a system of regulatory mechanisms. The article’s main proposition is that constructed governance, which is a collective process involving many actors, could be an alternative to e-waste recycling management. The city of São Paulo was chosen to be analyzed. Using an abductive methodology, the data analysis shows a fragmented network, with conflicts of interest among commercial and sustainability objectives, an absence of legal knowledge, and increases in the incorrect disposal of waste. However, initiatives in small groups in Brazil, which can be considered as examples of constructed governance, show a better volume of waste and the transportation of waste material to the right destination. The authors argue that constructed governance could be an efficient tool for e-waste recycling management systems. Besides, the article offers a matrix of indicators that can be used by both researchers and recycling managers.

scholarly journals The Right to the City and the public sphere: between political participation and the renewal of the legal urbanistic order

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (51) ◽  
pp. 629-650
Author(s):  
Arthur Hirata Prist ◽  
Maria Paula Dallari Bucci
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

Resumo Este artigo propõe uma análise dos aspectos políticos e jurídicos do Direito à Cidade sob a perspectiva do conceito de esfera pública. O Direito à Cidade é interpretado como um elo dinâmico entre a mobilização política, a democratização das relações sociais e do aparato institucional do Estado e a garantia de melhores condições materiais de existência no espaço urbano. A partir da revisão bibliográfica sobre o tema das lutas sociais urbanas no Brasil e na cidade de São Paulo, pretende-se demonstrar que o Direito à Cidade é exercido pela população a partir dos embates na esfera pública responsáveis por impulsionar a renovação da ordem jurídica e atribuir novos sentidos ao Direito existente.

scholarly journals Toponymic commodification and the neoliberal city

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 347-370
Author(s):  
Martin Jayo ◽  
Adriana Tavares Lima
Keyword(s):  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Sports Stadiums ◽  
Naming Rights ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City ◽  
Privately Owned

After being practiced for nearly three decades in the city of São Paulo for privately-owned venues such as cinemas, theaters and, more recently, sports stadiums, the sale of naming rights is being applied to state-owned spaces: in April 2020, the Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo (Cia. do Metrô) announced a plan to grant to private exploitation the right to name its stations. This article analyzes this plan, its premises and expectations. It concludes that, while a series of conflicts related to the memory of the city and its spatial landmarks have been identified by recent studies on toponymic commodification and suggested by the city’s antecedents on this matter, such conflicts do not seem to be considered in the plan’s agenda.

scholarly journals Urban planning instruments for promoting social interest housing: from zoning to obligatory percentages in São Paulo, Brazil, in dialog with Bogotá, Colombia

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Freire Santoro
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Social Interest ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Urban Restructuring ◽  
Housing Policies ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

One of the major challenges for urban planning in Latin America is to provide low-income families with housing in areas that have an infrastructure and a good supply of jobs and services, thereby promoting diversity and equity, translated by mixing classes, races and social cohesion. This mission becomes increasingly difficult in a neoliberal capitalist context which transfers the task of providing land and housing for low-income families to the market and where the logic of such actions is based on achieving more rent from land and consequently of the holding of real estate becoming more profitable. This paper sets out to discuss two proposals for urban instruments that dialog with the production of housing through the market and guarantee of the right to the city. The first centered on the reserve of land for the production of social interest housing (HIS, in Portuguese) in the zoning by creating Special Social Interest Housing Zones (ZEIS, in Portuguese), spread throughout Brazil, and described here based on the experience of São Paulo. Or else, comparatively, classifying land to be used as a priority for social housing (vivienda de interés prioritário) widespread in Colombia, and here presented by the Bogota experience. There is another, which already has international experience and has recently been debated in Brazil, which consists of conceiving of the promotion of social interest housing policies based on the regulation of urban restructuring but experiences of this are rare in Brazil. These may be termed as inclusive housing policies. As a result, this article points out that the creation of alternative regulations has set the tone for the market to exclude itself  from producing housing of social interest, and guarantees greater profitability to commercial undertakings. 

scholarly journals Produção habitacional na Região Administrativa Central do estado de São Paulo: reconfigurações territoriais recentes

Terr Plural ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 122-140
Author(s):  
Camila Moreno Camargo
Keyword(s):  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Local Scale ◽  
The State ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Housing Production ◽  
Small Cities ◽  
General Picture ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

This paper discusses the recent territorial reconfiguration in four cities of the Central Administrative Region of the state of São Paulo, through axes of analysis that mainly cover real estate dynamics and urban mobility. As from the cities of São Carlos, Ibaté, Araraquara, and Matão, a very specific territorial reconfiguration process is proposed in the medium and small cities of the state, as a result of a much more registered housing production in a context of financing which marks the production of the city itself, than in response to the more general picture of effective demands for housing in these cities, legitimized by local-scale urban legislation, and the misused use of urban tools recognized for the right to fairer cities.

scholarly journals Saneamento Como Importante Elemento do Direito à Cidade: Ponderações Sobre a Política Municipal de Saneamento em São Paulo / Sanitation as an Important Aspect of the Right to the City: Weights on the Municipal Sanitation Policy in Sao Paulo

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Azevedo Moretti ◽  
Ricardo Moretti
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Environmental Policies ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
National Guidelines ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
Municipal Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

Resumo:O presente artigo tem por escopo analisar o saneamento básico como importante elemento para afirmação do direito à cidade e mostrar em que medida as dimensões do direito à cidade estão contempladas na Lei nº 11.445/07, que estabelece as diretrizes nacionais para o saneamento. A partir dessa reflexão, é feita uma análise do marco regulatório da Política Municipal de Saneamento na cidade de São Paulo, procurando identificar contribuições para a afirmação do direito à cidade. Para tanto, são observadas as polêmicas envolvendo a concessão dos serviços de água e esgoto para a Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo (Sabesp), bem como as fragilidades e reveses do novo marco regulatório introduzido com a Lei Municipal nº 14.934/09.Palavras-chave: Direito à Cidade; Saneamento Básico; Políticas Públicas Ambientais. Abstract:The article aims to debate sanitation as an important aspect of the right to the city and discusses to what extent the right to the city presents itself in the Law nº 11.445/07 that enacts National Guidelines for Sanitation. Furthermore, the Municipal Sanitation Policy is analyzed in the context of the right to the city and its implementation in the local level. Debates regarding the Sanitation Company of the State of São Paulo (Sabesp) as utility concessionary as well as strengths and weaknesses of the Municipal Law nº 14.934/09 that regulates sanitation services are brought to fore.Keywords: Right to the City; Sanitation; Environmental Policies.

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