O crescimento urbano do município de Bertioga inserido no debate sobre sustentabilidade ambiental / The urban growth of Bertioga city within the discussion on environmental sustainability

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2009

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From the perspective of understanding how the concept of environmental sustainability can be applied to the urbanization of the cities, in Bertioga we see an illustrative case on the association between nature and urban growth. This city has suffered in its natural environment consequences of the intense growth of the paulista coastal zone, evident in the official area of the city and in the illegally occupied areas. The object of this dissertation is the urbanization of Bertioga: a relation between natural environment and how urban spaces are produced; including spaces constructed under precarious way due to supply the deficit of infrastructure and housing. The main objective is to interpret the impacts generated by human occupancy over fragile environmental areas, in the context of development and environmental sustainability, as it is debated worldwide. In the vision of town planning and considering a political territory as an empirical element the city we studied two subjects: the interpretation of the concepts used in the environmental discourse and urban space analysis. We used bibliography about sustainability and environmental problems, as a theoretical basis. Besides that we presented bibliographical survey on the historic of the international environmental debate and on the World Conferences that influenced the Nations environmental politics, basis of the Brazilian Environmental Politics. We considered as important the different points of view about sustainability and environmental crisis, that contributed to deconstruct the concepts mostly disseminated about those subjects, adopted in the political consensus, in most part of the western countries. Sustainable development can not be a general characterization to restrict the use of natural resources, not even simply a denomination to political and social programs; but, due to the complexity of social problems and natural resources access, it is necessary to define specific concepts on ecological sustainability in a social and cultural preexistent context. To reach social and environmental sustainability, in the context of urban growth, it is necessary to overcome the identified conflicts by determining the effective priorities on public policies. In Bertioga we could see that there are internal conflicts of the city and conflicts about different proposals in the same subject by state and federal governments. It is remarkable that city public policies to social requests of Bertioga must become most important than the supply of private interests on the use of urban space.

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sustentabilidade ambiental crescimento urbano bertioga environmental sustainability bertioga urban growth

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