Potential Transformation of Contaminated Areas into Public Parks: Evidence from São Paulo, Brazil

Camila Vitorino dos Santos and Helena Ribeiro ()
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Camila Vitorino dos Santos: Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Universidade de São Paulo, Sao Paulo 01246-904, Brazil
Helena Ribeiro: Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Universidade de São Paulo, Sao Paulo 01246-904, Brazil

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 19, 1-19

Abstract: Waste-contaminated areas have been reused and requalified environmentally across the globe, aiming to reintegrate them into urban dynamics with new functions such as public parks. This practice has attracted the attention of public health and environmental control agencies due to the scarcity of free areas and vacant spaces for creation of green areas, and d the need for more sustainable planning guidelines in large cities. The present work aimed to study processes of requalification of waste-contaminated areas for transformation in parks, using as study two cases located in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Method: Documentary research in environmental agencies, literature review and field visit. Results: In the two cases the process of requalification was unequal, with emphasis on three aspects: the actors involved in the case, the role of civil society and the action of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the State of São Paulo. Thus, it becomes evident that successful cases of waste-contaminated areas in the city of São Paulo are linked to the direct support of these aspects complemented with the private sector. Furthermore, a consensus is necessary among the public authorities regarding the laws of contaminated areas versus environmental damage full repair in the process of requalification.

Keywords: contaminated areas; urban residues; urban areas; environmental health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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