The motivation of this group of researchers was to expand the scope of diffusion of scientific production and consequently of the dialogue between Applied Social Sciences and Natural and ...Environmental Sciences. Since 2011, the journal has been published in a digital version, as part of the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), and is also indexed in the Scopus database. ...more than that, Ambiente & Sociedade pioneered the approach to the theme in Brazil, allowing many young researchers to publish their articles and giving visibility to a different way of approaching environmental issues. ...more than a vehicle of highly qualified scientific communication, the journal was configured (and still is) as a space for training, experimentation and emancipation of the vision of the Global South. Currently, the main objective of the editorial board is to increase the visibility of the work of Brazilian and Latin American researchers with an international audience, in which the English language prevails. ...we chose to publish the articles in bilingual format, also encouraging, in addition to English, publication in Spanish.
Local governments, or municipalities, play a key role in water governance around the world owing to the many administrative competencies they hold, ranging from water service delivery to urban ...planning. However, the ability of municipalities to carry out their competencies effectively depends in large part on the characteristics of the institutional arrangements in which they are embedded. In particular, the relationship between municipalities and watershed governance institutions has received little attention in the literature on polycentric and multilevel governance. Drawing on insights from diverse cases around the world, we argue that empirical research must pay closer attention to the links, or lack thereof, between municipalities and watershed governance institutions to improve the sustainability of water governance outcomes in practice. We identify a set of critical issues affecting municipalities’ engagement in governance at the watershed scale that broadly apply across different contexts, and which we argue deserve more attention in future research: (1) disconnect and ambiguities of authority across hierarchical levels; (2) internal and external challenges to municipalities engaging in effective collaborations; (3) barriers to expanding the scope of traditional municipal affairs; and (4) misalignment of biophysical, institutional, and political timescales.
O questionário “Educação, docência e a covid-19” foi criado e disponibilizado aos professores da rede paulista com o objetivo de investigar indicadores de ordem afetiva, de saúde mental e pedagógicos ...durante a pandemia. Participaram voluntariamente 19.221 professores. Os resultados apontam o medo da pandemia e professores inseguros sobre a tecnologia. Apesar disso, declaram-se engajados em aprender e com boa saúde mental. Ponto sensível é a percepção de que a aprendizagem é menor no formato remoto, ligada a questões de desigualdades de acesso. Conclui-se que os impactos na educação paulista foram relevantes e reforça-se a importância de mais avaliações sobre os processos de ensino e aprendizagem durante a pandemia abordando-se o conceito de sindemia.
O presente trabalho aborda o cenário brasilero, da Região Metropolitana de São Paulo e da cidade de São Paulo em relação à gestão integrada e sustentável de resíduos sólidos urbanos, apontando os ...principais avanços, retrocessos e desafios. Destaca-se o importante papel da universalização da coleta seletiva com inclusão de catadores de materiais recicláveis na cidade de São Paulo como estratégia para promover sustentabilidade socioambiental urbana.
The first two decades of the 21st century had a significant increase in e‐waste generation. While improper recycling technologies applied to this type of waste pose severe risks to the environment ...and human health, several e‐waste management legislation has been recently enforced worldwide, reaching 78 countries and covering 71% of the global population. In common, most of them aim to recycle minerals and plastic from the disposed waste of electric and electronic equipment (WEEE) to reinsert them in the industry, promoting the so‐called circular economy. From the comparative case study of countries that integrate the world‐system in different social and economic conditions – the United Kingdom (as core or developed country), Brazil (as semi‐periphery or emergent country), and Ghana (as periphery or developing country) –, this article aims to understand to what extent the national legislation on e‐waste management in these territories align with the Sustainable Development Goals 3, 6, 8, 11, 12, 14, and 15. This research has an exploratory approach and is methodologically structured as a controlled comparison of most different cases. Results reveal that selected legislation has different levels of alignment with SDG, ranging from generic mentions of social‐environmental topics to description of legal instruments to be enforced regarding environmental preservation, improvement of population's life quality, and changes in the unsustainable production, consumption, and disposal patterns. The article also seeks to contribute to the geographical debate by establishing the relation between e‐waste legislation and SDG, considering the territorial particularities of the case studies.
The article establishes dialogues between e‐waste regulation from three countries and the Sustainable Development Goals. The regulation models are distinct and promote, in each spatial context, different levels of dialogue with the SDGs.
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FZAB, GIS, IJS, KILJ, NLZOH, NUK, OILJ, SAZU, SBCE, SBMB, UL, UM, UPUK
RESUMO Dadas a complexidade da governança da água na Região Metropolitana de São Paulo (RMSP) e a iminência de efeitos cada vez mais fortes das mudanças climáticas, o texto analisa como essas podem ...agravar ainda mais a situação de escassez crônica de água, seja pelo excesso de chuvas com os consequentes alagamentos e enchentes, seja com severos períodos de seca, que dificulta o abastecimento público e para os demais usos da água, incluindo os serviços ambientais e ecossistêmicos. Concluímos que é necessário aprimorar a governança da água na RMSP com participação do poder público, da população e das empresas de forma a antecipar o planejamento sistêmico necessário para que os impactos das mudanças climáticas sejam minimizados no futuro.
ABSTRACT Given the complexity of water governance in the Metropolitan region of São Paulo and the imminence of increasingly stronger effects of climate change, this article analyzes how chronic water scarcity can be further aggravated, either by excessive rainfall with consequent flooding and overflows, or by periods of severe drought, hampering both public supply and other uses of water, including environmental and ecosystemic services. We conclude that water governance must be improved in the metropolitan region of São Paulo with the participation of the government, the population and companies to anticipate the systemic planning necessary to minimize the impacts of climate change in the future.
The paper presents a discussion on the water crisis that occurred between 2013 and 2015 in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo, the lack of integrated natural resources planning, and the reaction of ...social actors affected by the crisis. The region was affected by an extreme hydrological and climatological event, which was combined with the unsustainable management of water resources. The paper addresses, initially, the dynamics of water governance in the region, and the main aspects related to water availability and climate dependence that caused the water crisis. Then, we present an analysis of the process that led to the water crisis and its main developments, which is based on the follow-up of the different moments of the crisis and dialogues with its relevant stakeholders. The results indicate the relevance of emphasizing issues on matters such as the lack of transparency and highlight the role of societal initiatives. We conclude the paper with a proposition to discuss governance processes that can contribute to the development of more effective initiatives in order to reduce the impact of this visible change in water regimes, strengthen transparent management, and promote a more democratic interaction between social actors and the government.
Facing the increasing complexity of social and environmental issues, environmental governance configurations are required to adopt increasingly collaborative strategies and reflexive learning ...oriented practices. The goal of this paper is to present a theoretical discussion about environmental governance and the contribution of the social learning approach to expand the reflexivity potential of multi-stakeholder interaction spaces in governance processes. We argue that social learning practices, understood as interactive and reflective, can broaden the critical responsiveness of participating in environmental governance systems. Social learning-oriented processes are based on the promotion of dialogic spaces in which participants can learn from the diverse views present in the group and critically reflect on the assumptions that underlie decision making, thus creating possibilities for the emergence of innovative practices and new social configurations. We conclude that social learning processes driven by the stakeholders interactions in environmental governance spaces tend to broaden the ability of participants to critically evaluate the governance structure itself, in order to foster arrangements that can effectively promote practices for sustainability.
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