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International Synergies to Address Climate Change: Participatory Community Organizing in Toronto and the Baixada Fluminense, Brazil [PDF]
, 2012 This research was supported by the International Development Research Centre, grant ...
Leary, A.L.T. +1 more
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Social transformations in Brazil: continuing a dialogue on bottom-up experiences of social development [PDF]
, 2014 In the first post of the Favelas@LSE Blog, Sandra Jovchelovitch and Jacqueline Priego discuss recent transformations in social development and civic engagement in Brazil.
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Self-employment in Brazil and its determinants: a spatial analysis [PDF]
In this paper, we intend to identify some factors underlying the different rates of participation of self-employed workers in Brazilian municipalities. In contrast with previous analysis, our study is sensitive to the spatial dimension of self-employment
Ana Flávia Machado +2 more
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Urbanism between favela and chic [PDF]
, 2014 Representations of favela territories are multilayered and contested. In this post, Ann Deslandes discusses the promises and perils of ‘favela chic’ projects, particular representations and reinterpretations of favelas in the ...
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VOICES OF WOMEN FROM THE FAVELAS
Sur: International Journal on Human Rights, 2021 This essay intends to make readers listen to the voices of women from the Maré favela complex located in Rio de Janeiro. We cross-referenced data from “Mapa social do corona”, a bulletin produced by Observatório de Favelas with reports on the everyday ...
Angélica Ferrarez
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El deporte en las favelas [PDF]
, 2004 Para quienes no me conozcan me llamo Lars Grael y soy de Brasil. Soy un antiguo atleta olímpico. Gané dos medallas de bronce en la especialidad de vela, clase Tornado, en Seúl 1988 y Atlanta 1996 y también competí en Los Angeles 1984 y aquí en Barcelona ...
Grael, Lars
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Social Exclusion and Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean [PDF]
This paper examines how social exclusion contributes to violence in communities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Residents in socially excluded communities cannot depend on those institutions designed to protect them, and violence becomes an ...
Heather Berkman
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City Designed for Subtropical Living - Carrying forward the momentum from Subtropical Cities 2006 [PDF]
, 2007 At a time when cities around the world are increasingly looking and feeling the same, and similarly adding to mounting environmental crises, the Subtropical Cities conference hosted by the Centre for Subtropical Design in Brisbane a few months ago ...
Kennedy, Rosemary
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ParanoáThis article presents the first part of the results of a study on the presence and/ or absence of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas in the city’s cartography. Different data sources were used: research in the municipal archives—including the Rio’s first aerial photographs ever made, cartographic records and infrastructure maps from the 1920s and 1930s; research
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TIM MARSHALL: PRISONERS OF GEOGRAPHY STUDY GUIDE, 2017 [PDF]
, 2017 Study ...
Samson, Steven A
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