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Iyaleta Research Association launches the “Urban Legal Amazon Summary” – Iyaleta Notebook Vol.03

IYALETA – Research, Sciences and Humanities launches the “Urban Legal Amazon Summary: Socio-spatial Analysis of Climate Change” Iyaleta  Notebook Vol. 03 (Portuguese and English versions), which unifies the main results of studies on inequalities and climate change in the cities of: Belém (Pará), Boa Vista (Roraima), Cuiabá (Mato Grosso), Macapá (Amapá), Manaus (Amazonas), Palmas (Tocantins), Porto Velho (Rondônia), São Luís (Maranhão) e Rio Branco (Acre). The publication is now available for download on Iyaleta and Urban Legal Amazon pages.

 

 

For Iyaleta, studies on urban inequalities are fundamental for public policies regarding adaptation and mitigation, in defiance of climate change events, considering the interdependence between urbanization and deforestation, which places 87% of the population living in the urban spaces of the great Amazonian territory into an inequality context.

 

The study complies in its analyzes the dimensions of climate change in territorial planning, sociodemographic data, health conditions and basic sanitation, aiming to contribute to the processes of the Urban Director Plan review/preparation that it is linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Agenda 2030 and the ambitions of the Paris Agreement (2015).

 

The Urban Legal Amazon project – Socio-spatial Analysis of Climate Change (2020-2022) has an institutional support of the Instituto Clima e Sociedade (iCS) and as institutional partner the Instituto Mídia Etnica (IME).