Metropolitan Fringes Towards Resilience in the Context of Climate Change. Planning pathways for the Juqueri-Cantateira sub-basin (São Paulo Metropolitan Region, Brazil). This thesis aims to demonstrate that the integration of planning scales and prioritising sustainable development in metropolitan fringe areas are crucial for the resilience of these territories in the face of climate change. It argues that the implementation of a new governance model for urban and regional planning in metropolitan areas is imperative, connecting different scales and planning sectors and promoting inter-municipal cooperation to develop urban strategies and interventions that consider local specificities without ignoring regional implications. The hypothesis is that, in the face of the challenges posed by climate change, the absence of an urban planning process that articulates regional instruments together with a multi-scale and inter-sectoral governance model is the main obstacle to creating pathways for sustainable and resilient development in the metropolitan fringes of Brazilian cities. The object of study is the Juqueri-Cantareira sub-basin, located in the northern part of the São Paulo Metropolitan Region, Brazil.
Doctoral thesis as Cotutelle at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie and Leibniz Universität Hannover.
Funded by CAPES/DAAD double degree grant.
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Angélica Benatti Alvim (Mackenzie Presbyterian University Sao Paulo), Prof. Jörg Schröder (Leibniz University Hannover)
