Abstract

MADEIROS, Heleriany; GRIGIO, Alfredo  and  PESSOA, Zoraide. Inequalities and environmental justice: a challenge in building a resilient city. GOT [online]. 2018, n.13, pp.247-265. ISSN 2182-1267.  https://doi.org/10.17127/got/2018.13.011.

The present study aims to discuss the environmental inequality as a challenge in the construction of a resilient city. For this purpose, a bibliographic research was carried out addressing the themes of (re)production process of cities, environmental inequality and resilient cities. The paper makes a brief introduction regarding the contextualization of environmental problems in the cities and then it goes through a theoretical discussion of the main topics listed. As a result, it brings in the association of the problematic of environmental inequality with the construction of these cities, showing that to reach the production of a resilient city, it is not enough to have actions from government policies, but also the participation of the population in the decision making is needed.

Keywords : Environmental Inequality; Social and Environmental Urban Problems; Resilience; Resilient Cities.

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