“…In the Brazilian context, the environment and sustainability debate is about water quality (Damasceno et al , 2015), coastal erosion (Muehe, 2001; Lins-de-Barros, 2005) and sustainability (Cavalcante and Bispo, 2014, Bulhões et al , 2016). Tourism is another important issue for Brazilian waterfronts because of its positive and negative impacts on the economy, environment and society (Martins-da-Silva and Soriano-Sierra, 2013; Cavalcante and Bispo, 2018). Other current topics of debate related to waterfront are social issues such as child labor (Meneses et al , 2012; Vidal-Junior et al , 2017), social segregation (Peixoto and Silva, 2016; Farias, 2016) and occupation and urbanization (Junqueira, 2017; Viana, 2017).…”