Rethinking Public Policies in the Context of the Climate Crisis: Funding Strategies and Policy Production in Multi-Level Contexts (Part II)

Thursday, 10 July 2025: 15:00-16:45
Location: ASJE015 (Annex of the Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences)
RC21 Regional and Urban Development (host committee)

Language: English

The idea of reducing inequalities and the inclusion of the most vulnerable people in cities has always been associated with urban production and economic growth. It is becoming increasingly clear that countries need to rethink their economic and production policies to try to avoid climate chaos. This process, however, implies severe changes and time-consuming adjustments that will impose sacrifices on the poorest. Urban and housing precariousness are still distinctive in cities in the Global South, which implies the need for a powerful social security structure that allows these populations to survive climate chaos, which implies extreme heat and catastrophes, such as those that occurred in Brazil and India, recently. Taxing the wealth of the richest is one possibility for financing the policies needed to reduce urban precariousness in the Global South. However, public policies and social spending are related to multiple circumstance. In this optic, the research on public finances, funding, social policies, and urban development is relevant to the community, to urban and regional planning and to public administration.

It is important to reflect on the choices of urban development policies, and the use and equalization of public funds for this. What new arrangements, instruments and actors are involved in a context of change of this social and urban reality? What are the possibilities of taxation and collection for sustainable economic development? What public policies should be formulated and how to modulate this implementation prioritizing the reduction of inequalities in a multilevel governance context?

Session Organizers:
Ursula DIAS PERES, Curso de Graduação em Gestão de Políticas Públicas - EACH/USP, Brazil and Renata BICHIR, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Oral Presentations
Urban Planning Paradoxes and Consumpion: Superblock Barcelona Case (2016–2024)
Lluis FRAGO CLOLS, Spain; Morcuende MORCUENDE, Lecturer, Spain
In Search of Social Justice in the New Arrangement of Water Services in the City of São Paulo
Telma HOYLER HOYLER, Brazil; Caio FERRAZ, Interdependencia, Brazil
Public Standards in Housing in the Municipality of São Paulo, Brazil
Luciana DE OLIVEIRA ROYER, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil; Giusepe FILOCOMO, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil; Thiago MITUSHIMA, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil