All Rights Reservedde Moura Costa, Heloisa SoaresNasr, JoeRefinetti Martins, Maria LúciaSharma, UtpalOsório, Leticia2025-02-132025-02-132016978-85-7785-551-1https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2697Proceedings 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 southThe session has as theoretical reference the field of Political ecology of urbanization, seeking to articulate some interactions and contradictions related to the multiple ways that nature reveals itself in the city. The session welcomes topics discussing disputes over natural assets such as land, water, air, and biodiversity, resulting in social and environmental conflicts leading to different notions of justice, vulnerability and risk. Discussing nature in the city may help the understanding of the emerging concept of the urban commons; their forms of appropriation and reproduction as in water fronts, urban agriculture, protection areas among other contentious uses. The session aims to explore the role and agency of social agents involved, their forms of representation, appropriation or knowledge relates do nature.EnglishopenAccessconferenceObject43-49