Klaus Frey

Klaus Frey
  • Dr. rer. soc.
  • Professor (Full) at Federal University of ABC

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March 2011 - June 2019
Federal University of ABC
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The objective of our paper is to scrutinize the ongoing dynamics surrounding waste and climate policies within the federal democracies of Brazil and Canada. Our research design is guided by four primary inquiries. Firstly, we look at the integration of the circular economy concept within waste and climate policies. Secondly, we explore the extent t...
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The contemporary scenario of climate variability imposes numerous challenges in the socio-environmental field. When measured in the Global South, socio-economic, and environmental inequalities become fundamental indicators for diagnoses and improving planning, decision-making, and public policy in urban spaces. Considering SPMM, inequalities are tr...
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In order to meet its progressive demands for water, energy, and food, the SPMM is highly dependent on the ecosystem services produced by the more peripheral areas of its territory. Yet, without having at its disposal an adequate governance structure to deal with wicked problems, aggravated, inter-alia, by increased climate variability, this chapter...
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Establishing links between solid waste management (SWM) and climate policy does not seem obvious at first glance, yet they are intrinsically related. In the most recent IPCC reports, SWM is mentioned as important within urban services and connected to infrastructure. While recognized i.e., as a "short-term adaptation option" (IPCC, 2022), waste man...
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Metropolises are a fundamental characteristic of the 21st century due to the unprecedented urbanization that has seen cities transcend their traditional boundaries. At the heart of the metropolitan question, there is the need for collective decisions and coordinated joint action in a territory characterized by the existence of multiple governments...
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this books presents an interdisciplinary approach based on reserach on Environmental Governance in the Macrometropolis of São Paulo facing Climate Variability. The book analyses, governance, territory, energy, climate and environmental services in 25 chapters.
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In recent years, the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus approach has been widely used as a framework in the context of urban Sustainability. However, some elements of the approach are normative, leading to a technical view of resources and technocratic policy implementation. To avoid such tendencies, this study uses the framework of ‘nexus of humility’....
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This article starts from the general context of disaster risk management and resilience-building processes, which are analyzed as social construction phenomena from the analytical perspective of interactive governance, having as the empirical object of investigation the District System of Risk Management and Climate Change from the city of Bogota....
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O artigo contribui com a discussão sobre transformações das estruturas e práticas de governança e planejamento em áreas metropolitanas, tendo como recorte o caso da formação institucional da Região Metropolitana de Sorocaba (RM-Sorocaba). Para tanto, por meio de um diálogo dedutivo-indutivo, iniciamos com a discussão sobre temas de governança e pla...
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Polycentric governance (PCG) and the management of common-pool resources (CPR) have been the main theoretical approaches elaborated by Elinor and Vincent Ostrom and adopted in numerous research projects by the Indiana School in Bloomington, having gained major influence in the field of natural resources management. However, their findings concernin...
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O debate sobre a questão metropolitana na América Latina tem avançado nas últimas décadas com o impulso de estudos comparativos, pesquisas empíricas e reflexões críticas sobre a conformação e os desafios dos aglomerados urbanos localizados no subcontinente. Esta publicação traz uma contribuição adicional ao debate a partir da pesquisa Governança Me...
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Partindo de um panorama da situação do abastecimento de água e coleta e tratamento de esgotos nas escalas mundial, nacional e macrometropolitana, este capítulo visa analisar as metas e as recomendações do ODS 6, correlacionando-a aos desafios para a governança do saneamento na Macrometrópole Paulista.
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Quatro anos depois de sua aprovação pelas Nações Unidas, os Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável têm-se tornado uma fonte importante de debate e mobilização na proposição de políticas públicas em muitos países, incluído o Brasil. Este livro tem três grandes méritos: 1 - contribui para a reflexão sobre o papel e a dinâmica dos ODS no mundo, obje...
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Partimos neste capítulo da premissa de que uma análise crítica dos princípios e recomendações para a parceria global da Agenda 2030 possa contribuir para o debate sobre estratégias possíveis de uma governança para a implementação de ações integradas relacionadas às ODS na Macrometrópole Paulista.
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O objetivo deste capítulo é discutir a implementação do Objetivo do Desenvolvimento Sustentável (ODS) 13, Ação contra a mudança global do clima, em âmbito subnacional, com foco no território da Macrometrópole Paulista. Para tanto, foram levantados e analisados o status dos indicadores e metas da ODS 13.
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Este artigo analisa as possibilidades para uma governança multinível do saneamento ambiental na Macrometrópole Paulista. Após apresentar a abordagem teórica e metodológica, o artigo discute criticamente a atual situação dos serviços de água e esgoto, a trajetória da política de saneamento, a repartição de competências entre os entes federativos e a...
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The article discusses initiatives aiming to transform metropolitan rivers in the context of ongoing changes in planning and governance structures and culture. Following a theoretical discussion on concepts and approaches related to planning and governance, experiences regarding the recovery of major rivers in New York, the Ruhr Region, Seoul, Bueno...
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O pequento artigo discute a importância da governança multinível e policêntrica no contexto do ODS 13 relacionado à mudança climática e seus impactos.
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Resumo: Este artigo discute a complexa situação da gestão hídrica na Macrometrópole Paulista, com enfoque no papel dos Comitês de Bacias Hidrográficas enquanto arenas políticas de deliberação democrática na política ou governança da água. Apoiando-se em resultados de pesquisas recentes sobre (i) a situação da segurança hídrica na escala macrometrop...
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In discussing the global city‐region, three basic dimensions have to be distinguished: its specific physical urban structure and morphology; its characteristic as a functional economic space and its progressive role in an interconnected globalized economy; and finally, the challenge of integrative and democratic governance of public policies and de...
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Today’s most of the planner’s position can be summarised with the Dyer’s quote that is ‘I am realistic. I expect miracles’ (Dyer, 2001). Most of the authors of the chapters of this volume think this way; their feelings can be summarised with this wording. Most of them seem slightly discouraged in view of the manifold pressures related to the advanc...
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Este artículo de reflexión intenta identificar de qué manera el concepto de desarrollo sostenible ha sido abordado dentro de los tratados internaciones para la gestión del riesgo de desastres y la generación de resiliencia. Esto partiendo del hecho donde se reconoce que los desastres son producto de los problemas no resueltos del desarrollo. El art...
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Os Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável oferecem uma oportunidade para os governos federal, estadual e local lidarem com as principais questões ambientais. O objetivo deste artigo é, de um lado, compreender as causas e os efeitos da escassez de água no território da Macrometrópole Paulista (MMP), em um contexto de variabilidade climática, e, po...
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Politics and Conflict in Governance and Planningoffers a critical evaluation of manifold ways in which the political dimension is reflected in contemporary planning and governance. While the theoretical debates on post-politics and the wider frame of post-foundational political theory provide substantive explanations for the crisis in planning and...
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Based on the evaluation of the currently prevailing planning paradigms and in view of the limitations of integrative, consensus-focused and pluralistic approaches, this chapter aims to identify emerging radical political approaches on planning and governance in agonistic and subversive perspectives. It raises the question about the future of planni...
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Cities have increasingly been confronted with disasters, ranging from earthquakes and storms to floods and landslides. Traditional technocratic top-down approaches have proved inadequate to face disaster risks in urban agglomerations. Thus, expectations have risen that through multi-level governance, metropolitan regions could become more resilient...
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The present doctoral thesis of the Territory Planning and Management Program was based on a deductive type of research, where the general context of disasterrisk management and resilience generation processes were studied, which areanalyzed as a social phenomenon from the theoretical conception of governanceand the methodology of social network ana...
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Neste trabalho propomos um arcabouço teórico-conceitual como base para a análise de diferentes políticas públicas em perspectiva comparada, com vistas à sua aplicação para experiências no contexto local. A partir da identificação das características de cada uma das cinco políticas escolhidas para pesquisa – educação, saúde, assistência social, cult...
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Neste trabalho propomos um arcabouço teórico-conceitual como base para a análise de diferentes políticas públicas em perspectiva comparada, com vistas à sua aplicação para experiências no contexto local. A partir da identificação das características de cada uma das cinco políticas escolhidas para pesquisa – educação, saúde, assistência social, cult...
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En Colombia la Ley Orgánica de Ordenamiento Territorial (LOOT), es una de las herramientas que permitió la restructuración del Sistema Nacional de Gestión del Riesgo, generando que los entes territoriales pudieran organizarse en una gestión conjunta al nivel central, bajo los principios de descentralización, coordinación, complementariedad y concur...
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In this work we propose a theoretical-conceptual framework as the basis for the analysis of different public policies in comparative perspective, giving emphasis on its applicability for the local context. Based on the identification of the characteristics of each of the five policies chosen for our research – education, health, social welfare, cul...
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En el presente artículo se analiza el rol central que vienen cumpliendo los planificadores regionales alineados con la visión del regionalismo abierto cepalino en la actual estrategia de inserción de América Latina en el capitalismo global, en vista de su sujeción a los imperativos mundiales del capital transnacionalizado. Para ello se enfoca la at...
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In this article the central role played by territorial planners is analyzed together with the vision of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) concerning Open Regionalism in the current strategy related to the insertion of Latin America in the global capitalism, based on its subjection to the imperatives of trans nation...
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Participatory planning has become an ever more common practice in Brazil and many other Latin-American countries, at least in the case of more progressive local governments. Although significant progress has been made regarding the expansion of public participation in local policy making and planning processes, rising discontent can be observed in...
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This paper aims at verifying the potential of Social Network Analysis (SNA) for the study of public governance and policies, focusing on the understanding of ongoing changes related to institutional arrangements and political dynamics. The paper will be divided into five sections. In the introduction, the importance of the network concept for the g...
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Este ensaio tem como objetivo sistematizar anotações colhidas ao longo de oito anos de pesquisa e extensão, para uma agenda de pesquisa sobre desenvolvimento sustentável a partir do enfoque político processual e territorial. Tal perspectiva contempla a sustentabilidade política e administrativa do desenvolvimento, por meio da governança tomando-a c...
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Neste paper pretende-se propor uma discussão, ainda incipiente, sobre o estado da arte das teorias democráticas e suas potenciais contribuições para uma agenda de pesquisa em construção – com ênfase nos desafios do desenvolvimento com justiça social e sustentabilidade ambiental. Baseado em um esquema analítico de Sørensen & Torfing (2007), diversas...
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La gestión del riesgo de desastres naturales puede analizarse como un sistema socio-político (SSP), donde la vulnerabilidad del territorio puede conceptualizarse dentro de un sistema socio-ecológico (SSE). Planificar y gestionar estos dos sistemas es posible bajo el concepto de gobernanza del riesgo, indagando ¿Cuáles son los arreglos institucional...
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Introducción E ste último capítulo pretender aportar a la construcción de respuestas para uno de los interrogantes que animaron el desarrollo del proyecto de investigación, a saber: ¿De qué manera estos procesos pueden ser interpretados en clave de acción colectiva territorial, gestión urbana y gobernanza democrática de ciudad? Para ello, proponemo...
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Este trabalho apresenta e discute a proposta interdisciplinar da UFABC de formação integrada em Políticas Públicas.
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O avanço do uso das Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação ( TICS) vem se manifestando com força no planejamento e gestão das cidades. Enquanto tradicionalmente o processo da construção sociopolítica das tecnologias urbanas segue uma lógica setorial e fragmentada, ganha relevância a percepção da necessidade de estratégias mais integradas de desenv...
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The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has been rapidly growing in the fields of urban planning and management. While, traditionally, the process of sociopolitical construction of urban technologies follows a sectorial and fragmented logic, now there is a growing need for a more comprehensive approach with integrated urban stra...
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Starting from a theoretical analysis of the dilemmas of regional and metropolitan governance and the presentation of the institutional and legal framework that regulates metropolitan and regional co-operation in Colombia, this article analyses experiences of metropolitan regions in Bogotá and Medellin, taking into consideration secondary research,...
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This article aims to contribute to further deepen the discussion of a phenomenon common to several Brazilian cities: the Urban Mega Projects (UMPs). To do so, it starts from the assertion that it's still an emergent concept in the academic literature. Based on a bibliographic research, the article discusses its formation and implementation in the B...
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Whereas the academic debate on global networks was dominated by a focus on economic and financial flows, partially on strategies of technological or infrastructural integration, less attention was dedicated to local and global articulations emerging around sociopolitical issues like the fight against poverty, the strengthening of human rights and p...
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Este artigo discute alguns aspectos empíricos e teórico-conceituais das transformações das estruturas e práticas de governança em áreas metropolitanas na América Latina. Inicia-se com os problemas e desafios que se colocam na atual conjuntura para a governança das regiões metropolitanas, para, na sequência, examinar algumas mudanças institucionais...
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This article addresses some empirical and theoretical aspects of changing governance structures and practices in Latin American metropolitan areas. It starts with the problems and challenges faced by metropolitan governance in the current context. Subsequently, some institutional changes in Latin America in recent decades are examined, placing grea...
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Whereas the academic debate on global networks used to be dominated by a focus on economic and financial flows, partially on strategies of technological or infrastructural integration, much less attention used to be dedicated to local/global articulations emerging around a wide variety of sociopolitical issues such as the fight against poverty, the...
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No contexto da Sociedade da Informação, propostas para o desenvolvimento de novas concepções de governo e de seus papéis em processos de políticas públicas têm suscitado discussões entre diferentes correntes de pensamento no sentido de como interpretar as reconfigurações das relações sociopolíticas em curso. O desenvolvimento de novas formas de gov...
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This article presents a discussion on Policy Websphere Analysis as a methodological approach for analysis of organizational arrangements and the relationships they express through cyberspace, in an attempt to make the logics underlying political policies within the context of political networks explicit. Through this approach, we present the result...
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This article analyses the concept of "good governance" as promoted by the international development community, above all by the World Bank, within the predominant neoliberal development approach, emphasising the implications for local governance and management in developing countries. Highlighting the extent to which it is embedded in the neolibera...
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This article is about urban environmental governance in the city of Porto Alegre, in accordance with the virtual representation of the relationship network among the actors involved in local environmental politics. The paper reveals the importance of improved processes of interactive co-operation through new information and communication technologi...
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O presente artigo tem como objetivo identificar o surgimento de redes de governança ambiental a partir da cidade de Curitiba e averiguar indícios de inserção num espaço global aberto pela Internet, como meios de busca da sustentabilidade local. Recorrendo às metodologias da análise de redes sociais e de análise de hyperlinks, busca mapear e analisa...
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This paper investigates possibilities to consolidate new forms of network oriented urban governance in Brazil. Starting with a theoretical reflection concerning the concept of urban governance, this article discusses recent innovative experiences in public participation in the cities of Santos, Porto Alegre and Curitiba. Emphasis is given to the po...
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Contemporary society has the flows of information as one of it main characteristics and the information and communition technologies (ICTs) as one of its axes. In this context, the paradigm of networks has a special relevance, both for it qualities (the network society is a powerful metaphor) and as an analytical tool. It is the point we develop in...
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In Brazil, since the Federal Constitution of 1988, cities have gained a great autonomy leading to a proliferation of participative experiments, specifically in cities governed by left wing parties. Starting from the concepts of deliberative and dialogical democracy, as well as the concept of interactive urban governance, we propose to discuss the e...
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Las nuevas tecnologías de la información y de la comunicación amplían las posibilidades de participación de los ciudadanos en la toma de decisiones políticas. Esta realidad ha tendido a ser definida como gobernanza urbana electrónica, un nuevo concepto que espera mayores esfuerzos de investigación. En este artículo, tras discutir esa noción de gobe...
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In light of the growing critiques of the prevailing development models which are oriented toward either market solutions or centralizing state actions, this paper proposes a theoretical inquiry into the possibilities for fomenting more sustainable local development through the strengthening of social networks and their progressive incorporation int...
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Face às crescentes críticas aos modelos predominantes de desenvolvimento voltados ou para soluções de mercado ou para ações estatais centralizadoras e impositivas, este trabalho propõe uma investigação teórica das possibilidades de fomentar um desenvolvimento local mais sustentável através do fortalecimento de redes sociais e sua inserção progressi...
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Ausgehend von den politisch-administrativen Rahmen-bedingungen Brasiliens und den theoretischen Ansätzen von Jürgen Habermas und John Dryzek zur " deliberati-ven/diskursiven Demokratie " und " kommunikativen Rationalität " werden in diesem Artikel kommunalpoliti-sche Erfahrungen in den Städten Curitiba, Santos und Porto Alegre hinsichtlich ihres mö...
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The article analyses several concepts of sustainable development, focusing on the following dimensions: the political-administrative model, the role of the State, and the democratic potential of these approaches. First, the paper analyses those approaches that consider the market as the fundamental regulative force of development (market approach o...
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O artigo analisa diversas concepções de desenvolvimento sustentável, com ênfase nas dimensões do modelo político-administrativo, do papel do Estado e do potencial democrático inerente às abordagens propostas. São analisadas primeiro aquelas concepções que apostam no mercado como força reguladora do desenvolvimento (abordagem econômico-liberal de me...
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A partir da apresentação de alguns elementos básicos do pensamento de Alexis de Tocqueville - sua concepção de uma democracia liberal, seu conceito de liberdade e a sua teoria do interesse bem compreendido - analisamos neste artigo a concepção tocquevilleana sobre descentralização e poder local sobretudo no que diz respeito à sua contribuição para...
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A afirmação genérica um nexo direto entre democracia, liberdade e descentralização não se justifica, sustenta o autor. O tema é desenvolvido em dois níveis: mediante a consideração de problemas da democracia em sociedades como a brasileira e mediante um exame da contribuição que as idéias de Tocqueville ainda têm para oferecer a respeito, que se ve...
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The generic affirmation of a direct nexus between democracy, liberty, and decentralization is not justified, holds the author. The theme is dealt with on two levels: twith regard to problems of democracy in societies like the Brazilian one, and through an examination of the contribution that Tocqueville's ideas still have to offer on this score, wh...
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The role of the emotive (as against rational) dimension in the political participation process is discussed with regard to two styles of municipal management (Santos and Curitiba). It is argued that the cultural dimension is as important as the institutional one in democratic reform processes.

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