Abstract
Through the analysis of the New Pinheiros River Program, São Paulo, Brazil, the differences in the solutions presented are considered to implement environmental projects in different territories over the same sub-basin. Vulnerable neighborhoods upstream will receive only basic infrastructure; while Marginal Pinheiros, a rich place, will be contemplated with aditional leisure, sports and cultural equipments. The general aim is to analyze the process of capitalist production of the Pinheiros River depolluting program area, proposed by the São Paulo State government in 2019, as well as green gentrification and creation of environmental injustice. Methodology consists of bibliographic research and analysis of the program's documents and speeches of people in charge. Global South cities have been experimenting environmental injustice as a result of financial capital investments.
Highlights
Paragraph: In the last decades, the search for urban environmental sustainability has been followed by environment improvement and development projects
This paper discusses the expansion of the phenomenon of gentrification in the region known as Marginal do Rio Pinheiros, in São Paulo, that has been occurring since the 1970s
In the 1990s, new public investments turned the region into a showcase of globalization, based on public–private partnership and real estate production through financial capital (Fix, 2007)
Summary
Paragraph: In the last decades, the search for urban environmental sustainability has been followed by environment improvement and development projects. This study case is the New Pinheiros River Program (NPRP) started by São Paulo State Government, in 2019, as a stage of the 4th phase of the Tietê River Depollution Program (TRDP), Green Gentrification and Environmental Injustice the largest environmental sanitation program in Brazil, that has been in progress, since the 1990 (SABESP, 2018, 2019a,b). The article aims to analyze the capitalist production of urban space and its relation to the intensification of gentrification at Pinheiros River side through green projects in contrast to the permanence of environmental injustice in poor neighborhoods, inside the territory of Rio Pinheiros sub-basin. There will be intensification of the valorization of urban space at Marginal do Rio Pinheiros, through public–private partnership, while the program limits its actions to implement drainage and basic sewage systems in the poorest neighborhoods of the same river basin territory (SABESP, 2019a). It is known that the necessary investments to correct environment risks and frailty issues bring forth property valorization and may contribute to cast out the same population in need for benefits
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