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Local Green Governance: integrating sustainability into Public Policy in
light of climate changes
Theme: 1 - Environmental Governance at the Local Level:
Urban planning as an instrument of local governance
Maria Luiza de Moraes Leonel Padilha, Aline Matulja, Ana Karina Merlin do Imperio
Favaro, Juliana Barbosa Zuquer Giaretta, Juliana Pellegrini Cezare, Daniel Gouveia
Tanigushi, Antonio Carlos Rossin and Arlindo Philippi Jr.
Environmental Health Department, Faculdade de Saúde Pública,
Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Abstract
Purpose - A little scientific advance has been observed in how cities will deal with
climate change in terms of adaptability. Thus, it is necessary to anticipate future
changes and to integrate them into local level planning, including investments and
political decisions in a proactive way of adaptability promotion. For that, supporting
local governance construction may help engaging a variety of stakeholders on the search
for solutions focused on facing such issues.
Design/methodology/approach - This investigation has as its objective proposing a
Green Local Governance Model for Cubatão City/SP municipality, aiming to contribute
for an increase of effectiveness in the implementation of public policies into the context
of climate changes.
Findings ? The objectives are: i) bibliographical updating on the research theme; ii)
creating data summary on environment, social and economic dimensions for Cubatão
City/SP, iii) identifying environmental management system of the municipality; iv)
verifying the constraints on social participation in the decision making processes in
municipal environmental management, v) proposing a Green Local Governance
Framework. The methodology to be applied is based on MEGA (Portuguese acronym) ?
Strategic Evaluation Methodology of Sustainable Development and Environmental
Public Policies implementation at Santo André Municipality.
Practical implications - The expected results are reports, papers on the research
subject, data summary, report of the Environmental Management System of Cubatão/SP
(administrative structure, legal apparatus, management tools and institutional capacity);
guide to social participation, institutional improvement on climate change impacts
focus.
Originality/ Value - This paper intends to integrating sustainability into public policy.
The methodology could be used for exploring the framework for Green Local
Governance.
Keywords - Climate change; Public Policy; Green Governance; Cubatão City.
Paper type ? Research Paper.
1. Introduction
In 2010, the Southeast region of Brazil was affected by intense and frequent storms,
which caused significant losses to the national economics. A scenario with hundreds of
people homeless and victims of floods and landslides, requiring reallocation of
government resources and solidarity of society. Heat waves have caused low levels of
humidity comparable to African deserts (Miranda, 2010) leading to an increase in
hospitalizations due to infections or respiratory complications, especially in populations
with low adaptive capacity.
Besides feeling the changes of climate the company receives information from
the media, as occurred during the 15th Conference of the Parties - COP15, United
Nations, held in Copenhagen. This, added to extreme episodes brought the sample of
cities possible effects of global climate change provided by the scientific community in
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ? IPCC.
Despite the uncertainties about whether they are natural or anthropogenic factors
that cause the changes, the development of studies demonstrates that the changes should
be taken into account by the different spheres of government and civil society (Martins,
2009). As this author says, this issue must be faced and properly addressed seriously by
the "complexity of the topic and abstract and uncertain character of many of these
changes and their consequent impacts" (Martins, 2009, p. 01).
Locally, there is the search for new ways to manage problematic in view of the
particularity of "scenario with geographic, cultural, social, economic and political
contexts, and in some cases, conflicting" (Salles, 2000, p. 02).
Thus, the question that arises is how to prepare for this new situation
encompassed by uncertainty? When and where are these effects? Will be the cities most
affected?
This paper is part of the project (Local Government: Action Plan for Adaptation
to Climate Events) submitted to FAPESP - State of São Paulo Research Foundation.
The locus of the research is Cubatão-SP due to the particular characteristics in the theme
social, economic, environmental, cultural and historical is more likely the effect of such
climatic events. Also, the municipality counts on the Center for Research and Training
in the Environment (CEPEMA) of the Universidade de São Paulo(USP) as a support.
Background
According to Barry and Chorby (1998), the results of a study on behavior of the
climate predict that over the next 100 years the increase in global temperature can vary
2 ° C and 4 º C, together with the rise of sea level of 20 cm and 60 cm.
In response to scientific evidence of climate change, the United Nations
Environment Programme and World Meteorological Organization, established in 1988,
the IPCC to get subsidies for the development of public policies (IPCC, 2001).
The potential effects of climate change in cities are exposed to storms, erosion,
rising sea levels in coastal towns, fresh water scarcity, need for new water sources and
infrastructure, increased pollution, increased incidence of diseases infectious diseases
such as dengue or yellow fever with a high public health Thus the local effects of
climate change are economic, social and environmental issues, most visible in
developing countries by the characteristics, economic (less resources to deal with the
effects of global change) and economic vulnerability and social (Samaniego, 2009; La
Torre et al., 2009; Philippi Jr. et al., 2010). Consequently, the output is the
implementation of effective action in public spheres.
The economic factor is the vulnerability of populations, thus the share in poverty
is more likely to suffer from food shortages and other impacts, difficulties of return and
their activities tend to migrate to other locations (Cord et al. 2008; Valencio, 2008;
Philippi Jr. et al., 2010, Marengo, 2010).
The data presented in reports like the World Bank, besides demonstrating the
vulnerability of developing countries on climate change, bring about the need to invest
in mitigation strategies and adaptation, but necessity is not recognized by the
international community as noted by Sachs (2010).
It is known that the generation of knowledge about the vulnerability of countries
is related to formulation and implementation of effective public policies to adapt to
climate change, which will happen only when developed the mapping of hotspots in
South America and the complex interrelationship of development human and climate
change.
The complexity in addressing the issue of climate change as soon approached,
led us to look forward to study it in an interdisciplinary approach to environmental
policies in local government, included a proposal for sustainable development. For this
to make brief reference to this subject.
The reason for choosing public policies in place rests with the globalization
process that transformed the world into a global village as called Ianni (1997) and the
environmental issue of "global change" and created new challenges for municipal
management.
Within this new reality is the need to reform the state in order to humanize and
restore stability in a society where the migratory flux may be intensified ? from the
most affected regions to less affected ones. Such movement has influenced populations
to translocate daily management to the local sphere, while government structures still
work at a beginning of century way (Dowbor, 1998).
To change this panorama of centralized decision making that affects greatly the
local societies of Brazil, stands out as a legal reference, the promulgation of the 1988
Federal Constitution, which prescribes how provision (in Chapter IV, Article 29, section
X) the need to "cooperation of representative associations for the planning, pointing,
therefore, guidelines for municipal management. Moreover, the Constitutional Charter
provides in Chapter II of Article 182, urban policies and the article in question is
regulated by the City Statute of 2001 (Brasil, 1988; Brasil, 2001).
The Statute of the Cities (Federal Law No. 10.257 of 2001) in his article two on
public policy reaffirms how it should be municipal management in item II: democratic
management through participation of the population and associations representing
various segments of the community in formulating, implementation and monitoring of
plans, programs and projects for urban development and focuses on Article 45: (...) The
management bodies include mandatory and meaningful participation of people and
associations representing various segments of the community, to ensure control direct
its activities and the full exercise of citizenship. There is thus explicitly the need to
assess and monitor the actions of management by different societal actors (Brasil, 2001;
Padilha et al., 2007).
Through instruments such as municipal councils thematic or management of
public policies, citizen participation might enable the legitimacy and effectiveness by
means of parity in the official media of public administration in order to be
spokespersons of the community in dealing with the "common good" (Milaré, 1999;
Philippi Jr. et al. 1999; Assis, 2009).
This focus on participation of different actors "in the process of articulation of
demands" as cited Cardoso (1995), is essential for the municipal administrations to set
priorities for action. The demands priority should naturally be part of municipal
planning.
In general, we observe the results of the project "Strategic Assessment
Methodology Process for Implementation of Policy Development and Environment in
the Municipality of Santo André, SP - MEGA difficulties of the municipal management
facing society engagement with the councils and local decision-making, especially
regarding the continuity of projects.
From the experience of the MEGA project in the municipality of Santo Andre, it
is believed that a proposal for sustainable development including climate change in
government policy allows for the implementation of strategies to adapt to global
changes in the society.
For this to happen, according to Camargo (2003) cited in Fapesp (2009) in the
balance of 10 years from 1992 RIO has demonstrated the lack of governance
mechanisms in order to strengthen the management capacity of both governments to
increase their participation, the effectiveness of results in light of sustainable
development.
It is understood, therefore, that strategies for implementing sustainable
development and the new changes indicated by the IPCC should take citizen
participation into account in environmental planning.
Thus, when discussing the environmental planning for the climate change of a
municipality, it is imperative to assume the necessity of a representative process
involving multi-stakeholder, what should be done in a transparent manner. Such actions
can result in an appropriate proposal for sustainable municipal development as
envisaged in Agenda 21 (Oliveira, 2004; Agenda 21, 1994).
In this sense, the direction of public policy, from a mission and a vision of the
future - already defined by legal means and institutions that embody the expectations of
citizens - is the means by which the city administration does its job. Thus, sustainable
development, bounded by support economic, social, environmental and cultural
(Fernandes et al., 2009), may become more viable and be implemented within the
established and future prospects of socially desired in a given space.
Reopening the issue, the implementation of strategic planning for climate
changes will depend, for their enforcement - among others - the orientation of public
policies in line with the interests of society in line with the new scenarios in relation to
emissions reduction greenhouse gases. Apart from the possible impacts as a result of oil
exploration in the Santos basin.
Thus, the proposed environmental planning must be preceded by the verification
available tools to analyze the evolution of municipality management by researchers,
planners and all taken as executors of public policies. For this reason, historical,
socioeconomic and environmental studies are needed, through the review of municipal
regulations governing environmental planning, so that managers can rely on a feedback
tool for their actions.
The key points to be taken into account involve the assessment of strategies
linked to the generation of employment and income, regional disparities and
interpersonal reducing, changes in patterns of production and consumption, the
construction of sustainable and healthy cities, the adoption of new models and
management tools (Fapesp, 2009).
According Salles (2000), municipalities have several possibilities for application
of instruments required for the establishment of strategies for prevention, control and
mitigation of adverse social, economic and environmental, through plans, programs and
projects, always taking into consideration priorities and local and regional aspects.
This same author classifies the instruments as: Legal - Organic Law, the Master
Plan, Installment Land Law, Law of use and occupation and Environmental Code;
Budget - Municipal Environment Fund and Incentive Tax, Administrative - Information
System, technical-administrative, technical and technological and Communications -
Environmental Education, Agenda 21, Regional Consortium.
Given that governance at local level requires a mechanism to mediate between
civil society and state, providing improved capacity gestational government in
formulating public policies, it becomes relevant to investigate how to structure such
principles as that enables the State and civil society, increasing the degree of
adaptability of the city opposite the impacts resulting from climate change.
At COP 15, Brazil announced the goal in Brazil to reduce emissions of
greenhouse gases and promulgation of the National Policy on Climate Change - NMCP,
(Federal Law No. 12,187 of December 29th, 2009), which defined the need "to
implement measures to promote adaptation to climate change by 3 (three) areas of the
Federation "(Brasil, 2009).
This is explained in the guidelines of the NMCP (FL12, 187/09) in paragraph V:
stimulating and supporting the participation of federal, state, county and municipal as
well as the productive sector, academics and civil society organizations, in the
development and implementation of policies, plans, programs and actions related to
climate change as well as demonstrate the necessity of involving stakeholders and the
development of research among others, aiming to reduce the impacts of climate change.
In Article 6 of NMCP (FL12, 187/09) between the instruments given are
"measures dissemination, education and awareness" is this topic important to allow for
the involvement of the most affected.
In this vision, outlined by experts in the field of the effects of climate change,
whereby certain segments of the population will be most affected, there is compelling
need for this new environmental concern to be included on the local agenda by means of
instruments that aim to implement measures appropriate to reduce impacts and promote
sustainable development.
2. The City of Cubatão
The municipality of Cubatão is located in the Metropolitan Region of Baixada Santista
(Santos Lowland), by the State of São Paulo coast, an area which occupies 142 km2 and
situated 57 km away from the state capital, with altitudes varying from 3 m to 700 m
above sea level. Its environmental issue is centered in the complexity of mediating its
economic and social conflicts, as well as the peculiarity of local ecosystems.
Territorial division for land occupation and usage was established by
Complementary State Law 2.513 dated 10/10/1998 and today the determinations for soil
usage in the municipality of Cubatão are only ?for fiscal, urbanistic, and planning
purposes, solely in preservation urban area and urban area? (Prefeitura de Cubatão,
1998, art. 3º). Agriculture prevailed until the mid-Twentieth Century in the Santos
lowland, which changed staring in 1960, when Cubatão began to be occupied
predominantly by industries (Ferreira, 2007).
According to Young and Fusco (2006), urban and industrial occupation in a very
fragmented and dispersed way caused negative impacts to the region?s natural
environment in the municipality, which were not limited to the implementation of the
petrochemical pole alone. Since the building of Anchieta Highway and, latter,
Imigrantes Highway, Cubatão became a municipality inhabited mainly by low-income
and low-qualified workers, with labor ties in civil construction and local manufacturing
plants. Better qualified workers possessing higher income and better conditions moved
to neighboring municipalities in search of more adequate housing and infrastructure.
Thus, despite being rich, the municipality of Cubatão consolidated itself with a profile
of a low-income population.
For that reason, pockets of poverty, which demonstrate the social vulnerability
of a portion of local population, can be seen. According to the Índice Paulista de
Vulnerabilidade Social ? IPVS (Paulista Index of Social Vulnerability) ?, 42.2% of the
Cubatão population are exposed to high and very high vulnerability. The index is
comprised of, among other indicators, family income, level of education of the head of
the family, and by the number of children (SEADE, 2000).
Another factor to taken into account is the location and altitude of the city
which, according to forecasts of sea level elevation due to climate change, will suffer
massive impact, reaching, especially, the already vulnerable population.
As a result of the building of Anchieta Highway and the consolidation of
Cubatão as the Industrial Pole of the Santos Lowland, the region started receiving a
large population contingent and, consequently, irregular settlements began to appear
with greater expression (Young and Fusco, 2006).
Aside from this aggravating point, another factor that must be mentioned is
population?s exposure to contaminants liberated by the manufacturing plants. The
Cubatão community lives in the petrochemical pole and is exposed to a wide range of
toxic substances, leading to public health problems. According to Guilherme (1988) the
harms to the Cubatão public health are divided into three groups: 1) those resulting from
absence of sanitation and housing infrastructure ? poverty related harm; 2) those related
to the production process ? occupational diseases and labor accidents; 3) those resulting
from industrial pollution. The author also reports the fire in Vila Socó due to leakage in
a Petrobrás oil pipeline, as well as several physical and/or mental development
congenital anomalies in newborns possibly related to pollutants.
Located in the Atlantic Forest biome, Cubatão possesses mountainous and
flatland areas comprised chiefly of Dense Ombrophilous Forrest and Mangroves, which
suffered with the pressure of firewood exploitation in the past and, since 1950,
beginning of the industrialization process, with the installation of manufacturing plants
and population settlements (Borges et al., 2002).
Thus, Cubatão possesses Conservation Units, whose main purpose is the
conservation of nature and definition of boundaries. In Cubatão, the Parque Estadual da
Serra do Mar, the Parque Municipal do Perequê and the Parque Municipal Cotia-Pará
(CIESP, 2006) stand out. The Cubatão municipality is composed of the Núcleo Itutinga-
Pilões of the Parque Estadual da Serra do Mar, responsible for approximately 80% of all
the water supply of the Santos Lowland, revealing its regional importance to hydric
production. Those reservations also contribute to the improvement of air quality since it
increases relative humidity and improves climate conditions in a general way, rendering
an environmental service to neighboring human populations. The forest also
contributes to the formation of a natural coating of mountainsides, reducing the risk of
landslides.
Regarding the matter of Cubatão?s basic sanitation one finds complexities
related to the municipality?s socioeconomic nature. Its main problems are associated to
the non-prioritization of resources directed to the infrastructure of essential services, as
well as the precarious conditions living conditions in irregularly occupied areas.
Therefore, the current situation of the municipality of Cubatão is unsatisfactory.
The deficit in services of drinking water supply and sanitation sewage to the population
are in 72 and 29% respectively, according to the SNIS ? National System of Sanitation
Information (Brasil, 2007). The regular operation of those services is provided by
SABESP - Basic Sanitation Sao Paulo State Company, under a concession contract
expiring in 2009.
Though this deficiency portrays the reality of most Brazilian municipalities, it
figures as a real challenge to local management considering that a great part of the
population lives in Permanent Protection Areas, preventing the normalization of water
and sewage services. When comparing water and sewage service indexes between the
years of 2004 and 2007, one finds an increase of 7% and 1% respectively in the
rendering of such services (SNIS, 2004 e 2007).
It is important to point out that besides the quantitative indexes of the provision
of water and sewage services the municipality of Cubatão presents demands for
improvement in qualitative monitoring. According to Agenda 21 (Prefeitura Municipal
de Cubatão, 2006), the current monitoring of water quality parameters such as turbidity
and the presence of heavy metals is deficient. Besides, the same document points out
the difficulty of the population to access existing information. Both, SABESP and
CETESB ? São Paulo State Environmental Agency operate monitoring wells. Until the
date of publication mentioned, monitoring of the quality of treated domestic effluents
was nonexistent.
Regarding Solid Waste the city of Cubatão uses a Sanitary Landfill located in
Santos, in adequate conditions since 2003 according to the assessment of the Landfill
Quality Index (IQR) of the Environmental Company of the State of São Paulo
(CETESB, 2008). Though the collection of domestic waste is satisfactory in urban
areas, according to the municipality?s Agenda 21 analysis (2006) the system presents
deficiencies such as insufficient collection in areas of disorganized occupation, resulting
in the practice of waste dumping in bodies of water, underexplored recycling programs
and absence of composting of the organic fraction.
3. Project Objectives
Considering the current context of climate change, a local governance model is
necessary as opportunity to increase the effectiveness of decision making and the
implementation of public policies in face of climate change, guaranteeing, thus,
development on sustainable basis.
Thus, the main goal of project is to build participatory management tools in
order to assist the implementation of public policies addressing climate change in
Cubatão. The specific objectives are proposed upgrade on bibliographic research theme,
in order to create the database environment, social and economic study on the
municipality and check the conditions for social participation in decision-making
processes at the municipal environmental management, identify the Environmental
Management System (EMS) in the municipality, identifying the weaknesses in the light
of climate changes.
4. Methodologies
According to Gil (2002) scientific research depends on a "set of intellectual and
technical procedures" so that their goals are achieved. For this, Mehta and Singh (2001)
state that their preparation must be based on careful planning, as well as solid
conceptual reflections grounded in existing knowledge.
Thus, the methodological framework described below is based on this project
proposal aimed at applying the theoretical knowledge of the MEGA methodology and
other of participatory nature, still arrangement phase.
The MEGA methodology - Methodology for the Evaluation of Strategic
Environmental Management, funded by FAPESP, was developed by SIADES Group
and coordinated by the Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health
School, whose final objective was to propose a way of evaluating strategic formulation
and implementation of environmental policies in the context of environmental
management as mentioned in the literature review (Fapesp, 2009).
MEGA The methodology is structured in the following steps:
1. Data collection through interviews and workshops: Search up and understand
the processes of construction and implementation of public policies, since the problems
that motivated them, spaces for discussion, political debate until the final formulation,
implementation and review of the effectiveness of some cases.
2. Systematization of data - is on three levels of access and construction of
knowledge: the raw data, dimensions and concepts of reality (Quivy and Campenhoudt,
2008). The grouping of raw data reflects this phenomenon. The dimensions of reality
and complex classification of the phenomenon is a result of the grouping of the main
features (most often in speeches either in interviews or in the workshops). The concepts
are the basis for referential analysis of public policy, especially the dimensions of
sustainability and the principles of Agenda 21.
3. Strategic analysis: from the "tool of SWOT matrix" study are four vectors of
the strategy: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. This is the analysis model
from which we can highlight in each of the dimensions of reality, merits and
weaknesses, as well as positive or negative influence exerted in the context of the
process of policy formulation.
4. Assessment for improving learning: Based on the previous steps, appears the
following circular process of evaluation of public policies: a) Decision-making, b)
Planning and Implementation, c) Monitoring d) Evaluation.
Based on the methodologies described above, the project was structured in three
stages: the first in Diagnosis, which will be built in the scope of theoretical research as
well as the setting for the reality of the city. The second of building local governance,
with the community, in order to build the vision and mission of the municipality for
adapting to climate events, thus, providing subsidies for the identification of appropriate
management tools to that community that will structure the Plan Action to adapt to
climate events, and finally the stage of validation of the action plan with the community
and experts.
Such technical procedures used in making the research operational are described
below:
(i) Bibliographical Research of scientific publications on governance, governance
indicators, climate change, local governance, environmental syndromes and
participative environmental management strategic indicators, legal scope on the subject
as a whole and studies (cases) performed in Cubatão-SP; to be accomplished in
libraries, portals of journals, books and others, consolidating concepts and methods in
supporting the proposition of the Green Governance Model.
(ii) Documental Research of environmental, socio-economic, and institutional data on
the municipality of Cubatão. This is a continuous process throughout the project and is
accomplished through databases of governmental and non-governmental institutions
that play a role in the promotion of quality of life and sustainability, such as IBGE ?
Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, SEADE Foundation ? State System Data
Analysis Foundation, CETESB ? Environmental Sao Paulo State Agency and SNIS.
(iii) Field Research to be accomplished in two ways: through semi-structured
interviews with the consent of the interviewee, where participation is non-mandatory
and the right of abandonment is sustained throughout, observing the ethical aspects
recommended in research involving human beings (CNS Resolution 196/96). It should
be pointed out that this project will be submitted to the School?s Ethical Committee
during the qualification stage (second semester of 2010).
According to QUIVY and CAMPENHOUDT (2008) interviewing is a method
that allows for analysis of the actors in terms of related knowledge, analysis of a
specific problem, reconstructing a process of action, experience or past event, enabling
for a degree of depth into the elements gathered in the analysis, allowing for the
collection of statements and interpretations of the interlocutor, respecting his/her own
reference frames.
The purpose of the semi-structured interview is to corroborate the evidence
resulting from documental research and/or add information about the environmental
management system of the studied municipality. The interview will be performed with
the administrator responsible for the municipality?s environmental management
(secretary, director, manager), who will be identified in the course of the research.
(iv) Workshops: scientific tool for the conceptual discussion among the members of the
SIADES network indicators, by means of forums promote for the discussion with the
community, both municipal and scientific, represented by the members of the SIADES
group, in the course of the project. The contributions and proposals arising out of those
events will be taken into account at the closing of the many stages.
(v) Seminar: conducted to present the partial results of stage of the project to the
community.
Furthermore, weekly meetings will be conducted as a way to inform the team
about the latest happenings of the Project and making necessary adjustments. Those
events will take place via Skype and face to face. Larger meetings will be scheduled via
videoconference, signalizing the beginning and closing of each working stage.
It should be pointed out that the following is intended throughout the research:
(i) Producing and disclosing knowledge through publications and seminars as to
contribute with new public policy proposals in the context of climate change; (ii)
Guiding efforts toward consolidating the network of indicators ? SIADES; (iii) Inserting
knowledge and experience acquired throughout the research period into teaching and
research activities in the São Carlos Engineering University (EESC-USP), School of
Public Health (FPS-USP) and Environmental Training and Research Center (CEPEMA)
As the research is performed, it becomes necessary to measure (quantitative) or
analyze (qualitative) if the expected objectives of changes are being reached, translating
into indicators of observable and measurable manifestations (Quivy and Campenhoudt,
2008).
The technique of thematic content analysis (GOMES, 2007), with adaptations,
will be utilized for the analysis of the conducted interviews. Initially, the recorded
material will be listened to, with the objective of: (a) having an aggregated view; (b)
learning the peculiarities of the set of material to be analyzed; (c) elaborating initial
assumptions that will serve as landmarks for the analysis and interpretation of the
material; (d) choosing initial forms of classification; (e) determining the guiding
theoretical concepts for the analysis.
At a second moment, the analysis itself will be conducted, according to the
following stages: (a) take down notes of excerpts, fragments, or phrases of each text for
analysis, (b) distribute the parts into categories; (c) make a description of the
categorization result, (d) interpret obtained results with the support of adopted
theoretical grounding.
As for the identification of environmental management scenario in Cubatão-SP,
through bibliographical and documental research, it will be accomplished through
analysis of the adopted theoretical reference.
Analysis of quantitative data: Microsoft-Excel-developed statistical
spreadsheets will be elaborated for tabulating all data, and analysis categories based on
the designed theoretical reference will be created for crossing all gathered information.
Graphs will be designed later for better understanding of those results.
5. Expected Results
Each of the mentioned specific objectives is linked to an expected result with a set of
activities and methodologies for its achievement, as displayed in the following table.
Table 1: Expected Results
PHASES
SPECIFIC
OBJECTIVE
ACTIVITIES
EXPECTED
RESULTS
Diagnosis
Update
bibliographical
collection on the
following
themes:
- Updating bibliographical research focused
on the following themes: governance,
governance indicators, climate change, local
governance, environmental syndromes and
participative environmental management
strategic indicators, legal scope on the
subject as a whole and studies (cases)
performed in Cubatão-SP; to be
accomplished in libraries, portals of
journals, books, and consulting institutions
acting in that field;
- Increase in contact and visits to other
national and international learning
institutions (like China, Australia and
SIADES Group) to identify research and
interests related to objectives of this project;
Theoretical
compendium on
the subject of
research
Create
environmental,
social, and
economic
database on the
studied
municipality
- Gathering of data through institutions such
as IBGE, SEADE, CETESB, SNIS, and
others, as well as with the municipality of
Cubatão
- Data systematization
Data Summary
Identifying the
municipality?s
Environmental
Management
System (EMS)
- Understanding of the dynamic involving
municipal environmental management in the
Municipality of Cubatão-SP;
-Consulting documents that record activities
in the Cubatão-SP municipality?s
environmental management scope, along
with city hall and competent entities on the
referred subject;
- Scenario of the
Cubatão-SP
(administrative
structure, legal
apparatus,
management
instruments and
institutional
- Interview with key administrators to be
identified along the process
capacity)
Construction
Local
governance
- Construction of the vision and mission of
the municipality
- Discussion of feasibility of each instrument
with a focus on climate change along with
key leaders, managers and specialists, both
technical and academic
Training of
managers and
local leaders
Proposal of an
Pilot Action
Plan for climate
events
adaptation
Construction of a Framework proposal for
dealing with the main local adaptation
challenges
Pilot Action Plan
for climate events
adaptation
Validation
Validate the
Plan of Action
for Adaptation
to climate
events
- Identification of faults by means of
workshops with managers, key leadership
positions
- Adjustments
Action Plan for
climate events
adaptation
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Borges, W. R.; Braga JR., J. C.; Torres, F. R. (2002), O que você precisa saber sobre Cubatão,
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About the authors
Maria Luiza de Moraes Leonel Padilha is a Post-Doctorate on Environmental Policy, Planning and
Management at Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Faculdade de Saúde Pública (FSP). She is a currently
Professor at Faculdade SENAI de Tecnologia Ambiental, PhD in Environmental Health (Faculdade de
Saúde Pública Universidade de São Paulo), Master in Administration (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de
São Paulo). Agronomist Engineering and member of SIADES (System of Environmental Information for
Sustainable Development) research group. Maria Luiza de Moraes Leonel Padilha is the corresponding
author and can be contacted at: malupadilha@usp.br
Aline Matulja is currently master degree student in Environmental Public Policies, Planning and
Management at Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Universidade de São Paulo and member of SIADES
(System of Environmental Information for Sustainable Development) research group. She holds degree
in Sanitary and Environmental Engineer (Federal University of Santa Catarina, 2009). Her current
research topics of interest are climate change adaptation and governance.
Ana Karina Merlin do Imperio Favaro has graduation in Agricultural Engineering from the São Carlos
Federal University (2007). She specialized in Environmental Management at Senac University Center
(2010) and also, is a student of Master Program of Environmental Health, in Faculdade de Saúde Pública
in Universidade de São Paulo.
Juliana Barbosa Zuquer Giaretta is currently mater degree student in Environmental Public Policies,
Planning and Management at Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Universidade de São Paulo and member of
SIADES (System of Environmental Information for Sustainable Development) research group, as well as
Fellowship of the Institute''s National Science and Technology Studies of the Environment (INCT-EMA).
She holds Bachelor Degree in Biological Sciences at University Center (2005) and expertise (Lato
Sensu) in Environmental Health from the Faculdade de Saúde Pública- FSP/ USP (2007) Her current
research activities are related to the Centre for Training and Research Environment of the USP (USP-
CEPEMA).
Juliana Pellegrini Cezare Biologist, Msc. Environmental Health and researcher on Environmental
Health (Faculdade de Saúde Pública Universidade de São Paulo)
Daniel Gouveia Tanigushi is Biologist and Master of Science by Universidade de São Paulo. He is a
student of Doctorate Program of Environmental Health, in Faculdade de Saúde Pública in Universidade
de São Paulo
Antonio Carlos Rossin is graduated in Industrial Engineering Chemistry Mode FEI University Center
(1967), graduated in Sanitary Engineering from the Universidade de São Paulo (1973), Master of Public
Health Engineering - University of London (1978) and Doctorate in Engineering in Public Health -
University of London (1981). He is currently a Professor Doctor of the Universidade de São Paulo at
Faculdade de Saúde Pública.
Arlindo Philippi Jr. is Professor on Environmental Policy, Planning and Management at Universidade
de São Paulo (USP) and Pro-rector of Research. He holds a position at CAPES, The Brazilian Foundation
on Science and Technology as Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs Area. He is a
Civil, Sanitary and Environmental Engineer. He holds a Master Degree on Public Health, a PhD on
Environmental Health, and a Post-Doctorate on Environmental Policy, Planning and Management. He
completed his studies and expertise with several courses in USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Italy
and Japan.
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