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Water Policy, 2020
In many emerging and developing countries hybrid systems, not completely public nor private, have... more In many emerging and developing countries hybrid systems, not completely public nor private, have become a regrettable unstandardized ‘standard’ for water and sanitation service (WSS) provisions. These spotted zebras deserve the attention of both the scientific community and policymakers being ambiguous solutions. On the one hand, the hybrid systems allow broadening the access to the water supply service in face of the challenge to manage, maintain and adapt large infrastructures in a time of increasing climate change impacts, water-supply demand and drinking water scarcity. On the other hand, by embodying informal artefacts and unregulated behaviours to use natural resources, the hybrid systems enhance the vulnerability and precariousness of the population that is normally not reached by the formal public infrastructure. The paper presents findings of research conducted in Queimados, in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area. Our study suggests that grassroots solutions, albeit being...
EPIC3Bremerhaven, PANGAEA, Jan 20, 2012
Scholars agree that governance of the public environment entails cooperation between science, pol... more Scholars agree that governance of the public environment entails cooperation between science, policy and society. This requires the active role of public managers as catalysts of knowledge co-production, addressing participatory arenas in relation to knowledge integration and social learning. This paper deals with the question of whether public managers acknowledge and take on this task. A survey accessing Directors of Environmental Offices (EOs) of 64 municipalities was carried out in parallel for two regions - Tuscany (Italy) and Porto Alegre Metropolitan Region (Brazil). The survey data were analysed using the multiple correspondence method. Results showed that, regarding policy practices, EOs do not play the role of knowledge co-production catalysts, since when making environmental decisions they only use technical knowledge. We conclude that there is a gap between theory and practice, and identify some factors that may hinder local environmental managers in acting as catalyst o...
Futures, 2015
ABSTRACT Data and indicators represent a fundamental tool for knowledge-based policies. They are ... more ABSTRACT Data and indicators represent a fundamental tool for knowledge-based policies. They are usually produced by agencies operating at the national or supra national level. However, water and sanitation policies are implemented at the local level. Our article addresses the question of data and indicator usability at the municipal level, while investigating water supply and sanitation services. Firstly, we selected a sample of municipalities in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area and classified them according to a set of national indicators. Then, we interviewed the person responsible for water and sanitation policies in each municipality. By triangulating qualitative and quantitative data, we found gaps between the indicators produced by national information systems and the data required and employed by local decision-makers. Discussing these results in relation to the literature, we identified gaps and bridges, which could serve as key elements for a governance design baseline with the power to guide future local decision-making processes.
Systemic Practice and Action Research, 2013
The following research paper presents results of an ethnographic investigation focused on the par... more The following research paper presents results of an ethnographic investigation focused on the participatory process of a public project for urban environmental rehabilitation. This public intervention, called Iguaçu Project, is being carried out in the Baixada Fluminense, in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region (RJMR). Drawing upon the literature on social learning from both organizational and environmental management studies, the research investigates when and why social learning occurs within a participatory arena. The paper presents an analysis of stories told by nine key informants, selected as representatives of the main social categories involved in the project. The different meanings the narrators attributed to participation, environment, knowledge and learning in their stories, are analysed through abductive reasoning, i.e. through a continuous reference to the literature and confrontation with former narrative analysis in business organizations. The findings show an interpretative framework based on development of multiple-loop learning theory, defined as contextual loops. Furthermore, it identifies five explanatory propositions to answer the research questions. The occurrence of social learning in participatory arenas seems to depend upon five organizationally related factors: a systematized organizational structure; the participants' commitments and the pluralism of the participatory arena; the process proponents' reliability, the supporting role of a facilitator.
Cities, 2015
ABSTRACT This paper presents an analysis of the dialectic construction of city representation in ... more ABSTRACT This paper presents an analysis of the dialectic construction of city representation in Rio de Janeiro during the phase of preparing for global sport mega-events, such as the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. In particular, it describes event-based city branding as dialectic representational dynamics that occur when attempting to broadcast a ‘tailored’ image to the world. Official and counter branding, observed in this study through an Internet-based qualitative content analysis, construct an arena for confrontation. The use of urban space and physical transformations, economic development visions, cultural heritage and citizen involvement are key categories entangled in both the institutional/strategic (i.e. the official brand) and counter-hegemonic (i.e. the counter brand) city representations. The analysis showed the dialectic relationship between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic narratives. The analysis suggests not just the destruction of the ‘Olympic City’ master narrative by means of counter-hegemonic representation, but a (re)construction of a global narrative of ‘the city hosting mega-events’, enriched by local meanings and symbols. Future research perspectives and open inquiries are proposed in the final section of the paper.
Futures, 2011
The academic debate on «sustainable city» is like a large arena, where heterogeneous approaches a... more The academic debate on «sustainable city» is like a large arena, where heterogeneous approaches and contributions, coming from different disciplines, flow into without converging on a common vision. The growing awareness that an increasing percentage of the world's population now lives in urban areas makes the organization of this space a crucial issue for global sustainable development. In order to
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Negli ultimi vent'anni, l'aumento dei fenomeni di opposizione dal basso a scelte pubbli... more Negli ultimi vent'anni, l'aumento dei fenomeni di opposizione dal basso a scelte pubbliche, il peso crescente che il principio di sussidiarietà ha assegnato ai livelli istituzionali locali, l'affermarsi di approcci strategici nella pianificazione e nella valutazione, hanno lasciato nuovi spazi ...
Negli ultimi vent'anni, l'aumento dei fenomeni di opposizione dal basso a scelt... more Negli ultimi vent'anni, l'aumento dei fenomeni di opposizione dal basso a scelte pubbliche, il peso crescente che il principio di sussidiarietà ha assegnato ai livelli istituzionali locali, l'affermarsi di approcci strategici nella pianificazione e nella valutazione, hanno lasciato nuovi spazi ...
Water Policy, 2020
In many emerging and developing countries hybrid systems, not completely public nor private, have... more In many emerging and developing countries hybrid systems, not completely public nor private, have become a regrettable unstandardized ‘standard’ for water and sanitation service (WSS) provisions. These spotted zebras deserve the attention of both the scientific community and policymakers being ambiguous solutions. On the one hand, the hybrid systems allow broadening the access to the water supply service in face of the challenge to manage, maintain and adapt large infrastructures in a time of increasing climate change impacts, water-supply demand and drinking water scarcity. On the other hand, by embodying informal artefacts and unregulated behaviours to use natural resources, the hybrid systems enhance the vulnerability and precariousness of the population that is normally not reached by the formal public infrastructure. The paper presents findings of research conducted in Queimados, in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area. Our study suggests that grassroots solutions, albeit being...
EPIC3Bremerhaven, PANGAEA, Jan 20, 2012
Scholars agree that governance of the public environment entails cooperation between science, pol... more Scholars agree that governance of the public environment entails cooperation between science, policy and society. This requires the active role of public managers as catalysts of knowledge co-production, addressing participatory arenas in relation to knowledge integration and social learning. This paper deals with the question of whether public managers acknowledge and take on this task. A survey accessing Directors of Environmental Offices (EOs) of 64 municipalities was carried out in parallel for two regions - Tuscany (Italy) and Porto Alegre Metropolitan Region (Brazil). The survey data were analysed using the multiple correspondence method. Results showed that, regarding policy practices, EOs do not play the role of knowledge co-production catalysts, since when making environmental decisions they only use technical knowledge. We conclude that there is a gap between theory and practice, and identify some factors that may hinder local environmental managers in acting as catalyst o...
Futures, 2015
ABSTRACT Data and indicators represent a fundamental tool for knowledge-based policies. They are ... more ABSTRACT Data and indicators represent a fundamental tool for knowledge-based policies. They are usually produced by agencies operating at the national or supra national level. However, water and sanitation policies are implemented at the local level. Our article addresses the question of data and indicator usability at the municipal level, while investigating water supply and sanitation services. Firstly, we selected a sample of municipalities in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area and classified them according to a set of national indicators. Then, we interviewed the person responsible for water and sanitation policies in each municipality. By triangulating qualitative and quantitative data, we found gaps between the indicators produced by national information systems and the data required and employed by local decision-makers. Discussing these results in relation to the literature, we identified gaps and bridges, which could serve as key elements for a governance design baseline with the power to guide future local decision-making processes.
Systemic Practice and Action Research, 2013
The following research paper presents results of an ethnographic investigation focused on the par... more The following research paper presents results of an ethnographic investigation focused on the participatory process of a public project for urban environmental rehabilitation. This public intervention, called Iguaçu Project, is being carried out in the Baixada Fluminense, in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region (RJMR). Drawing upon the literature on social learning from both organizational and environmental management studies, the research investigates when and why social learning occurs within a participatory arena. The paper presents an analysis of stories told by nine key informants, selected as representatives of the main social categories involved in the project. The different meanings the narrators attributed to participation, environment, knowledge and learning in their stories, are analysed through abductive reasoning, i.e. through a continuous reference to the literature and confrontation with former narrative analysis in business organizations. The findings show an interpretative framework based on development of multiple-loop learning theory, defined as contextual loops. Furthermore, it identifies five explanatory propositions to answer the research questions. The occurrence of social learning in participatory arenas seems to depend upon five organizationally related factors: a systematized organizational structure; the participants' commitments and the pluralism of the participatory arena; the process proponents' reliability, the supporting role of a facilitator.
Cities, 2015
ABSTRACT This paper presents an analysis of the dialectic construction of city representation in ... more ABSTRACT This paper presents an analysis of the dialectic construction of city representation in Rio de Janeiro during the phase of preparing for global sport mega-events, such as the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. In particular, it describes event-based city branding as dialectic representational dynamics that occur when attempting to broadcast a ‘tailored’ image to the world. Official and counter branding, observed in this study through an Internet-based qualitative content analysis, construct an arena for confrontation. The use of urban space and physical transformations, economic development visions, cultural heritage and citizen involvement are key categories entangled in both the institutional/strategic (i.e. the official brand) and counter-hegemonic (i.e. the counter brand) city representations. The analysis showed the dialectic relationship between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic narratives. The analysis suggests not just the destruction of the ‘Olympic City’ master narrative by means of counter-hegemonic representation, but a (re)construction of a global narrative of ‘the city hosting mega-events’, enriched by local meanings and symbols. Future research perspectives and open inquiries are proposed in the final section of the paper.
Futures, 2011
The academic debate on «sustainable city» is like a large arena, where heterogeneous approaches a... more The academic debate on «sustainable city» is like a large arena, where heterogeneous approaches and contributions, coming from different disciplines, flow into without converging on a common vision. The growing awareness that an increasing percentage of the world's population now lives in urban areas makes the organization of this space a crucial issue for global sustainable development. In order to
inu.it
Negli ultimi vent'anni, l'aumento dei fenomeni di opposizione dal basso a scelte pubbli... more Negli ultimi vent'anni, l'aumento dei fenomeni di opposizione dal basso a scelte pubbliche, il peso crescente che il principio di sussidiarietà ha assegnato ai livelli istituzionali locali, l'affermarsi di approcci strategici nella pianificazione e nella valutazione, hanno lasciato nuovi spazi ...
Negli ultimi vent'anni, l'aumento dei fenomeni di opposizione dal basso a scelt... more Negli ultimi vent'anni, l'aumento dei fenomeni di opposizione dal basso a scelte pubbliche, il peso crescente che il principio di sussidiarietà ha assegnato ai livelli istituzionali locali, l'affermarsi di approcci strategici nella pianificazione e nella valutazione, hanno lasciato nuovi spazi ...