3rd International Seminar on Environmental Planning and Management
URBENVIRON SÃO PAULO 2008
Presbyterian University Mackenzie
São Paulo – October 6 – 7, 2008
Mackenzie
Global Environmental Changes
Towards the 3rd Urbenviron International Congress – Seoul 2009
New Deadlines for paper submission
Venue: Presbyterian University Mackenzie, São Paulo, Brazil.
Coordinators: Prof. Dr. Gilda Collet Bruna and Prof. Dr. Arlindo Philippi Jr.
Seminar date: October 6 – 8, 2008.
6 & 7: seminar ; 8: technical visits.
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May 30: submission of full-length, 10-15 page papers, with introduction, methodology,
results and conclusions, and pertinent figures, maps, tables and references. Format:
Arial 12. Space 1,5.
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June 30: publication of the paper selection results.
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July 30: paper presentation in final version (including suggested complements).
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Send your paper to: [email protected] and [email protected]
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For registration, payment and proof of payment
Contact [email protected]
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PARTICIPANTS UNTIL MAY 30 – R$ 250,00
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3rd International Seminar on Environmental Planning and Management
URBENVIRON SÃO PAULO 2008
Presbyterian University Mackenzie
São Paulo – October 6 – 7, 2008
Mackenzie
Global Environmental Changes
Towards the 3rd Urbenviron International Congress – Seoul 2009
Background
A global initiative to gather research groups, scholars, enterprises, governmental institutions and
NGOs, all committed to knowledge building and networking on the subject of environmental planning
and management. It started in November 2004 in Brasilia, when Catholic University of Brasilia and the
Technical University of Berlin organized an International Seminar as the first URBENVIRON event.
That leading action set forth the 1rst URBENVIRON International Congress on Environmental
Planning and Management, held in September 2005, also in Brasilia. That event joined about 700
participants of 28 countries to discuss the Environmental Challenges of Urbanization, which included
topics about the interactions among human beings and the urban environment, theory and praxis of
urban environmental planning and management, and the dynamics and social environmental impacts
of urbanization. The high point of the Congress was the international agreement on a declaration –
THE CHARTA OF BRASILIA – with the principles of sustainable urban planning and management. It
was also created the URBENVIRONET – International Network for Environmental Planning and
Management.
Since then, the Mackenzie University, the Universities of São Paulo, Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, Chile,
Seoul, Cairo, Umm al-Qura, La Plata, San Agustin de Arequipa and many other institutions joined the
Catholic University of Brasilia and the Technical University of Berlin in the initiative, turning the
URBENVIRON into a worldwide mark in the urban environmental management.
The 2nd Urbenviron Congress took place in August 2007 at the Technical University of Berlin,
counting with 400 participants from 44 different countries. Discussions around the theme:
Planning the Urban Environment – Visions, Implementation, Results. The audience fully
agreed with the creation of the URBENVION – International Association for environmental
Planning and Management, and Brasilia was appointed as the Association’s headquarters.
The 2nd URBENVIRON Congress also accepted the assignment of the URBENVIRON
Chapters, as representatives of the URBENVIRON International Association for
Environmental Planning and Management around the world, and reaffirmed the commitment
to the following objectives:
• Implementation of the CHARTA OF BRASILIA
• Organization of WORLD CONGRESSES and INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS (biennial)
• Publication of URBENVIRON Periodical and NEWSLETTERS
• The running of the URBENVIRONET
• Development of research projects and case studies in support to a more sustainable
development all around the world.
Responding to those challenges, adaptation in policies, institutional and environmental governance
frameworks are required in order to create the enabling conditions for effective management of
ecosystems and its services while meeting well-being goals
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3rd International Seminar on Environmental Planning and Management
URBENVIRON SÃO PAULO 2008
Presbyterian University Mackenzie
São Paulo – October 6 – 7, 2008
Mackenzie
Global Environmental Changes
Towards the 3rd Urbenviron International Congress – Seoul 2009
According to the Global Environment Change Program of the World Health Organization
(www.who.int/globalchange/en), increasing human activity and large consumption of ecosystem
services have drastically affected the local and global environment for the past 50 years. Climate
change, stratospheric ozone depletion, loss of biodiversity, changes in hydrological systems and
freshwater supplies, land degradation and stresses on food-producing systems are among the largest
global environmental problems we face today, affecting large part of the poor population living in rural
areas and large urban centers
Responding to those challenges, adaptations of policies, institutional and environmental governance
frameworks are required in order to enable conditions for effective management of ecosystems and its
services while meeting well-being goals. To deal with such issues the 3rd URBENVIRON International
Seminar on Environmental Planning and Management - São Paulo 2008 is focusing the following
themes:
1. Environmental Governance and Urban Public Policy
Growth and maintenance of generated wealth within urban areas, without affecting natural renewable
resources have become a key factor among urban planners and public policies decision-makers.
Urban green governance appears as a variety of new arrangements in order to structure collective
action towards urban livability. Understanding how authorities are solving urban problems requires
examining the interactions between local, regional, national, and international state and non-state
actors.
In the last decades Governance and Sustainability arose as important interrelated concepts in the field
of development planning. Green governance, understood as the institutional dimension of sustainable
development, has been widely acknowledged as one of the bottle-necks for steady changeovers.
Considerations about imbalances of strength amongst the various social actors within democratic
decision-making processes, as well as asymmetrical development patterns due to inequality of
information accessibility,
open a wide set of researches on green governance and urban public
policies.
Papers on this theme should discuss on-going experiments in community governance, in the context
of globalization; the emergence of new institutional arrangements and legal solutions; innovative lines
of thinking about urban environmental policy; sustainability indicators on urban contexts; public-private
partnerships; green governance in urban areas.
2. Ethics and Socio-environmental Responsibility
A new wave of concern for natural resources and respect for the environment, allied to a stronger
belief in the importance of community participation has increased among business and corporations in
Brazil.
Companies have realized the need to uphold values of corporate socio-environmental responsibility.
There is a deeper understanding about the significance of promoting policies and actions that integrate
man and nature, while fomenting its benefits to local social groups. In an interdisciplinary scope, this
theme deals with ethics and socio-environmental responsibility.
Papers on this theme should incorporate in the discussion aspects related to environmental education;
professional practice and skills training programs; ethics in the company; science and market
production and consumption.
3. Built Sustainable Environment
Massive and extensive human built-up artificial surroundings have been impacting urban areas like
living organisms, considering the consumption of resources and disposal of wastes. Those manmade
areas have also been encouraging intense concentration of industrial plants within their boundaries.
The purpose of this theme is to raise discussion on built-up sustainable environments as mitigation
solutions for the misuse of urban territories. Papers should focus on intervention theories and
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3rd International Seminar on Environmental Planning and Management
URBENVIRON SÃO PAULO 2008
Presbyterian University Mackenzie
São Paulo – October 6 – 7, 2008
Mackenzie
Global Environmental Changes
Towards the 3rd Urbenviron International Congress – Seoul 2009
strategies directed to critical problems and constraints in dealing with urban waters; energy
consumption and disposal; housing and urban mobility.
Organizing Committee
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Angélica Aparecida Tanus Benatti Alvim, Presbyterian University Mackenzie
Arlindo Philippi Jr., University of São Paulo (Coordinator)
Carlos Leite, Presbyterian University Mackenzie
Eunice Helena Sguizzardi Abascal, Presbyterian University Mackenzie
Gilda Collet Bruna, Presbyterian University Mackenzie Coordinator)
Nádia Somekh, Presbyterian University Mackenzie
Sueli Corrêa de Faria, Catholic University of Brasilia
Tadeu Fabrício Malheiros, University of São Paulo
International Scientific Committee
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Arlindo Philippi Jr., University of São Paulo
Benamy Turkienicz, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Bong-Ho Han, University of Seoul
Doaa El-Sherif, Government of Egypt
Donald Miller, University of Washington
Dora Guillen T. de Arce, University of San Agustín de Arequipa
Gilda Collet Bruna, Presbyterian University Mackenzie Hartmut Kenneweg, Technical
University of Berlin
Hugo Romero, University of Chile
Jonathan P. Deason, George Washington University
Jorge Antonio Martins, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Kala Vairavamoorth, University of Birmingham
Marcela Gregori, University of La Plata
Marcia Mathieu, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Renata Marson Andrade, Catholic University of Brasilia
Sueli Corrêa de Faria, Catholic University of Brasilia
Vicente del Rio, California Polythecnic State University
William Siembieda, California Polythecnic State University
National Advisory Scientific Committee
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Bernardo Arantes do Nascimento Teixeira, Federal University of São Carlos
Carlos Eduardo Dias Comas, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
José Ronal Moura de Santana Inez, University São Judas
Luiz Guilherme Rivera de Castro, Presbyterian University Mackenzie
Marcelo de Andrade Romero, University of São Paulo
Maria Augusta Justi Pisani, Presbyterian University Mackenzie
Maria Cecilia F. Pelicioni, University of São Paulo, Faculty of Public Health
Nara Sílvia Marcondes Martins, Presbyterian University Mackenzie
Petra Sanchez Sanchez, Presbyterian University Mackenzie
Ricardo Siloto da Silva, Federal University of São Carlos
Roberto Righi , Presbyterian University Mackenzie
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3rd International Seminar on Environmental Planning and Management
URBENVIRON SÃO PAULO 2008
Presbyterian University Mackenzie
São Paulo – October 6 – 7, 2008
Mackenzie
Global Environmental Changes
Towards the 3rd Urbenviron International Congress – Seoul 2009
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Sheila Ornstein, University of São Paulo
Tadeu Fabricio Malheiros, University of São Paulo, Engineering School of São Carlos
Valter Luis Caldana Junior, Presbyterian University Mackenzie
Volia Regina Costa Kato, Presbyterian University Mackenzie
Supporting Technical Group
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Ana Luiza S. Spínola Krings, University of São Paulo, Faculty of Public Health
Constance Jacob Melo, Mackenzie Presbyterian University
Gislene Passos Ribeiro, Mackenzie Presbyterian University
Juliana Di Cesare Margini Marques, University of São Paulo
Paula R. Jorge Vendramini, University of São Paulo, Faculty of Public Health
Rechilene Mendonça Maia, Mackenzie Presbyterian University
Sibila Corral de Arêa Leão Honda, Mackenzie Presbyterian University
Contact [email protected]
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