All Rights ReservedEllen Emerich Carulli,Aguiar, Rogério Rodrigues deTravassos, Luciana Rodrigues Fagnoni Costa2025-02-072025-02-072016978-85-7785-551-1https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2589Proceedings 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 southThis article aims to approach the relations between environment and cities, studying Sao Bernardo do Campo’s riverbanks urbanization public policies and their institutional arrangements, focusing on the intersetoriality as a way to achieve the provision of socio-environmental services. This is relevant because the brazilians cities development dynamics followed a trend of completely subdue of natural areas to intense population growth and urban sprawl combined with technicistical paradigms. In this scenario, the environmental areas and the city areas dispute over territory and the relation between environment and cities goes under a exclusion logic. However, since the late 1900s, the debate around new possibilities to create a more harmonic relation between environment and cities and the provision of environmental services acquire relevance - the socio-environmental services concept derive from the ecosystem services concept emphasizing the connection between social and environmental issues. It consists on the idea that natural processes ensure the species survival and possess the ability to provide goods and services that can satisfy human needs (De Groot et. al., 2002; Fisher and Turner, 2008). Among those services is the water production, which is important to Sao Bernardo do Campo since more than half of its territory is on a water sources protection and recovery area and about 37% of Billings Reservoir’s water is inside its political and administrative limits (Capobianco, 2002). Historically, Sao Bernardo do Campo took the role of a connection hub, linking Sao Paulo’s capital and the main harbors in Santos.EnglishopenAccessconferenceObject429-431