Environmental justice and citzen intelligences: the ranaturalisaton of metropolitan river basins - the case of Jacaré River, Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro
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2016
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This is a study on the aménagement of the urban landscape. The central question of this work is the persistence of existing imbalances in the renaturalisation process of river basins in relation to the perception of the individuals living in these geographical environments. We’ve been studying the specific case of the Jacaré river basin, located in Niterói, metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro. This study is part of a broader multidisciplinary research project that has different teams of professionals from Fluminense Federal University and foreign universities during the year 2015. We used the landscape integralisation strategy to give form and content to the renaturalisation river basin in focus, based on the perception of the residents of the neighborhood Jacaré, a corresponding geographical extension to the area of the eponymous river basin. Our aim is to systematize the environmental perceptions of these residents in order to define guidelines for the renaturalisation process of the river basin in which they live. WE mobilize the concepts of etnogeomorphology and etnolandscape in their relationship with the parameters of the territorial justice, more specifically, addressed as environmental justice. Methodologically, citizen intelligences are at the same time, the theoretical resource and the elements of analysis for us employees. So we will: i) raise the theoretical debate about environmental justice, ii) from the empirical study of iii) citizen intelligence based on the environmental awareness of the residents of a metropolitan river basin. In our assessment, this study contributes to the management of more inclusive and democratic urban landscape.
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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