Urban land policy and new land tenure paradigms: Legitimacy vs. legality in Brazilian cities

Macedo, Joseli

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2007.08.001

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“…(40) Like participation, it is often oriented more towards paternalistic communication and prescription than 35. See reference 5, Macedo (2008). 36. See reference 3.…”

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

Ducrot

Bueno²,

Barban

et al. 2010

Environment and Urbanization

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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. A role-playing game was built to explore the interactions between different actors (mayor, water company, district representatives and landowners of different types) in land tenure insecurity, water and sanitation infrastructure and pollution in the periphery of São Paulo. An assessment of the game sessions revealed the different points of view of local and institutional actors about the main issues and the possible negotiation arrangements. Institutional actors misunderstood the hierarchy and diversity of community actors' preoccupations, which were related more to land tenure, access to public transport and other aspects such as health and education rather than to water and sanitation infrastructure. Institutional actors also failed to recognize how access to infrastructure and land tenure is shaped by power-based relationships. While community actors appreciated the game and felt that they had learned from the experiment, institutional actors were more critical. These discrepancies call into question the potential effectiveness of the legal, technical and institutional solutions that the institutional actors are promoting to address the pollution issue. KEYWORDS infrastructure / land tenure / peri-urban area / pollution / roleplaying game / sanitation / São Paulo Raphaèle Ducrot works with CIRAD, UMR G-eau (Fortaleza, Brazil, and Montpellier, France); also with FUNCEME (Fortaleza-CE, Brazil). Her research deals with social simulation for governance and collective decision-making regarding water.

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“…(40) Like participation, it is often oriented more towards paternalistic communication and prescription than 35. See reference 5, Macedo (2008). 36. See reference 3.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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

Ducrot

Bueno²,

Barban

et al. 2010

Environment and Urbanization

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“…Besides, there is significant impact of urbanization, formal and informal, in the environment of Brazil (Macedo, 2007) and it has been estimated that almost half of the protected areas overlap with urban areas in Rio de Janeiro (Uehara-Prado and Fonseca, 2007). Hence, prioritizing land units for conservation, planning or strict management becomes a complex issue.…”

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Modelling landscape complexity for land use management in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Papadimitriou

2012

Land Use Policy

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“…Brazil's City Statute ( Estatuto da Cidade ;Brazilian Federal Law No. 10257, enacted in 2001), which regulates and extends Articles 182 and 183 in Brazil's 1988 Federal Constitution, recognizes the Lefebvrian principle of the "Right to the City" and elaborates on the principle of the "social function of property and of the city" to address property rights, land tenure, urban planning, and development as human rights issues (see Fernandes 2007 ; Macedo 2008 ) . Now that this legislative-institutional framework is in place, stakeholders are convening in cities across Brazil to develop participatory municipal master plans.…”

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Integrating Ecology and Poverty Reduction

2012

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Urban land policy and new land tenure paradigms: Legitimacy vs. legality in Brazilian cities

Cited by 47 publications

References 16 publications

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

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

Modelling landscape complexity for land use management in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Integrating Ecology and Poverty Reduction

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