Cultural Anthropology, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 726-752, November 2025.ABSTRACT During the past two decades, foreigners have acquired housing stock in many of Rio de Janeiro's oldest and most iconic favelas, or self‐built neighborhoods, and invested in capital improvements, with an eye toward turning private residences into lodging accommodations.
ALESSANDRO M. ANGELINI, GARETH A. JONES
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MAZI Deliverable Report D2.5: – Design, progress and evaluation of the Deptford CreekNet pilot (version 2) [PDF]
, 2018 In this deliverable, the second in a series of three, we report on progress in the Creeknet pilot. We describe progress towards tasks identified in the Description of Work (DoW) for Task 2.2, focusing on activities in Year 2 (2017: months 13-24) and look
Clayton, Paul +3 more
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Improving the health and welfare of people who live in slums [PDF]
, 2016 In the first paper in this Series we assessed theoretical and empirical evidence and concluded that the health of people living in slums is a function not only of poverty but of intimately shared physical and social environments.
Caiaffa, Waleska +13 more
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Rio and the Reds: The Comando Vermelho, Organized Crime and Brazil’s Economic Ascent [Student’s Paper Series] [PDF]
, 2011 Brazil’s growing status as a potential world power cannot obscure the characteristics of its other reality: that of a country with vast inequalities and high crime rates.
Joseph, M.Sc. Candidate, Regina
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Environmental restoration of urban rivers in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [PDF]
, 2010 Cet article porte sur les discours environnementaux et les pratiques concernant la restauration des eaux urbaines au Brésil en se penchant sur les rapports entre l’environnement et l’occupation urbaine.
Barcellos Pinheiro Machado, Denise +2 more
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Spartan Daily, December 1, 2004 [PDF]
, 2004 Volume 123, Issue 62https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/10066/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Environmental Justice: A Case of Socio-environmental Vulnerability in Rio de Janeiro [PDF]
, 2010 Environmental justice addresses the unequal environmental burden often borne by minorities and low-income populations. In Brazil, many studies confirm extreme socio-environmental inequities in urban areas.
da Costa Silva, Gabriela
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Transformational Hybridity: Shape, Shake, and Shift Up for Societal Grand Challenges
Journal of Management Studies, Volume 62, Issue 6, Page 2149-2168, September 2025.Abstract There is wide agreement about the potential for hybridity – the combination of plural organizational forms – to address complex societal grand challenges. Unfortunately, advancements in this area have been unduly constrained by the fragmentation of research along the organizational unit of analysis.
Giacomo Ciambotti +6 more
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Parsing the Urban Poverty Puzzle A Multi-generational Panel Study in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas, 1968–2008 [PDF]
This paper describes the methodology of a longitudinal multi-generational study in the favelas (shantytowns) of Rio de Janeiro from 1968 to 2008. Major political transformations took place in Brazil during this interval: from dictatorship to ‘opening’ to
Perlman, Janice E.
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Authority of State and Local Police to Enforce Federal Immigration Law [PDF]
, 2010 [Excerpt] This report discusses the authority of state and local law enforcement to assist in the enforcement of federal immigration law through the investigation and arrest of persons believed to have violated such laws.
Garcia, Michael J, Manuel, Kate M
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