Percepção social no programa de restauração de cursos d'água urbanos em Belo Horizonte

Macedo, Diego Rodrigues; Magalhães, Antônio Pereira

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“…According to the Brazilian Institute of Statistics, IBGE [140,141], the general percentage of connected households rose from 46% in 2000 to 55% in 2010, and for the three largest urban centers, connectivity rates increased even more in the same time (Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Area 78-85%, São Paulo 79-87%, Rio de Janeiro 65-82%), but also indicate that ca 15% of the urban wastewater was still not connected in 2010. In 2011, only 34.5% of the household wastewaters were actually treated due to lacking sewage collectors in Belo Horizonte City [142].…”

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“…All practical solutions need to be tailored to the specific local settings at the reach scale; however, considering the entire catchment. As an example, we describe here activities taken to restore the Baleares creek in Belo Horizonte, Brazil [142,166]. The major problems to be tackled in this stream were water pollution, sedimentation, lack of flow diversity, degradation of the riparian vegetation, flood risk to badly sited residents, but the creek itself had not been canalized.…”

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Urban Stream and Wetland Restoration in the Global South—A DPSIR Analysis

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In many countries of the Global South, aquatic ecosystems such as streams, rivers, lakes, and wetlands are severely impacted by several simultaneous environmental stressors, associated with accelerated urban development, and extreme climate. However, this problem receives little attention. Applying a DPSIR approach (Drivers, Pressures, State, Impacts, Responses), we analyzed the environmental impacts and their effects on urban hydrosystems (including stagnant waters), and suggest possible solutions from a series of case studies worldwide. We find that rivers in the Global South, with their distinctive geographical and socio-political setting, display significant differences from the Urban Stream Syndrome described so far in temperate zones. We introduce the term of ‘Southern Urban Hydrosystem Syndrome’ for the biophysical problems as well as the social interactions, including the perception of water bodies by the urbanites, the interactions of actors (e.g., top-down, bottom-up), and the motivations that drive urban hydrosystem restoration projects of the Global South. Supported by a synthesis of case studies (with a focus on Brazilian restoration projects), this paper summarizes the state of the art, highlights the currently existing lacunae for research, and delivers examples of practical solutions that may inform UNESCO’s North–South–South dialogue to solve these urgent problems. Two elements appear to be specifically important for the success of restoration projects in the Global South, namely the broad acceptance and commitment of local populations beyond merely ‘ecological’ justifications, e.g., healthy living environments and ecosystems with cultural linkages (‘River Culture’). To make it possible implementable/practical solutions must be extended to (often poor) people having settled along river banks and wetlands.

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Urban Stream and Wetland Restoration in the Global South—A DPSIR Analysis

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“…A inexistência de uma maior integração com a cidade e a degradação da qualidade das águas provou, ao longo do tempo, que as estratégias de engenharia fluvial e algumas das intervenções realizadas entre os séculos XIX e XX não foram as melhores soluções (BINDER, 1998;KONDOLF, 2012), tornando a necessidade de ações para melhoria da qualidade e da estrutura nesses rios e córregos algo inadiável (MACEDO & MAGALHÃES, 2011;MIGUEZ et al, 2015).…”

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“…Historically, these effects can be associated with consequent Brazilian public policies that, following technical conceptions of Europe in the 19th century, stimulated urbanization projects guided by sanitary M. Procopiuck and A. Rosa 2 principles of positivist engineering (Abreu, 1997;Macedo & Magalhães Junior, 2011). In this process, acquiring utilitarian purposes based on the urban-industrial life style, the majority of Brazilian urban rivers started to function as drains for non-treated industrial and residential effluents.…”

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Evaluation of communities’ perception on public policies, urban rivers functions, and qualities: the Belém River case in Curitiba

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2015

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Urban rivers have been considered, for different cities, as sources of problems and solutions. The objective of this article is to evaluate local communities' perception of sociopolitical actions and the natural attributes of the Belém River, located in the city of Curitiba. This study is justified by the theoretical contributions of evaluating urban rivers based on perceptions of the community. The results indicate that the river has been progressively deteriorating to the point where, paradoxically in relation to the constructed view of the sustainable and ecological city, the community considers it useless for domestic purposes, representing a source of discomfort and health hazards. However, the same community still values the river as a public good and demands solutions with society and government shared efforts. Data collection was conducted in 2012 through a stratified random sampling. The margin of error for 586 respondents was 5% at the 95% confidence level.

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Percepção social no programa de restauração de cursos d'água urbanos em Belo Horizonte

Cited by 14 publications

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Urban Stream and Wetland Restoration in the Global South—A DPSIR Analysis

Urban Stream and Wetland Restoration in the Global South—A DPSIR Analysis

Reflexões Sobre Educação E Convivência Com O Meio Ambiente: Experiências Agroecológicas De Estudantes Do Ifce Campus Crato

Evaluation of communities’ perception on public policies, urban rivers functions, and qualities: the Belém River case in Curitiba

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