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Community Organizations Environment and Urbanization
Environment and Urbanization
Environment and Urbanization
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Environment and Urbanization (E&U) seeks to advance a more socially just and environmentally sustainable urban world through the provision of knowledge. Our focus is the global South, where an estimated one in three of the urban population live in informal settlements and where more than half work within the informal economy. UN projections suggest that almost all the world’s growth in population in the next few decades will be in urban centres in the Global South.

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Integrating land tenure, infrastructure and water catchment management in São Paulo’s periphery: lessons from a gaming approach

Journal Articles & Books
декабря, 2009
South America
Brazil

Much of São Paulo’s urban expansion is driven by the development of informal settlements on its periphery, which includes the catchment areas that provide important environmental services such as open space and catchments for drinking water reservoirs. In such areas, governance of land, water services and water resources, traditionally administered separately, are in fact interdependent.