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- Fast growing informal peri-urbanization in Africa: the role of local practices in assessing sustainability and planningPublication . Carrilho, João; Balas, Marisa; Dgedge, Gustavo; Trindade, JorgePeri-urbanization occurs differently across world regions, through urban sprawl, local development, and rural exodus. The latter is typical in primarily rural, fast urbanizing underdeveloped regions in an African context. In those regions, semi-urban settlements develop informally from local practices. For their large numbers, undertaking formal assessments and land use planning to any significant extent is impractical. The study applied a flexible framework to assess the role of local practices on sustainability in rapidly expanding settlements in peri-urban areas and how technical resources and narratives can influence and take advantage of such practices. The work reports a mixed-methods case study conducted in settlements North of Maputo, Mozambique using territorial and social cohesion as proxies for sustainability and as a guide for planning interventions priorities. The study used publicly available and participatory geographic information, limited expert opinion surveys, focus group discussions, and individual satisfaction surveys. We show that, while facing limitations, informal practices are conscious of the local suitability of risks in settlements land use planning and favor social cohesion. The framework supports existing theories and reveals that local microscale traditional physical planning brings marginal gains. The research suggests priority to interventions with a higher impact on territorial and social cohesion, such as narrative-based local institutional innovations, enhancing knowledge exchange on standards and risk management solutions, enforcing regulations, and improving regional networking infrastructure and practices, in face of limited resources and city and regional planners. Research is needed to improve the frameworks' replicability as a new tool to assist in peri-urbanization governance.
- Gender-responsive good practices in documenting customary and statutory land in MozambiquePublication . Balas, Marisa; Carrilho, João; Lemmen, Christiaan; Albuquerque, RosanaSustainable growth and development in Africa will continue to depend mainly on how land and land-related resources are secured, used, and managed, which is extremely important for the socio-economic development of women and men. Equitable land rights support the eradication of poverty, increase food security, and respond to climate change. However, women's land rights are strongly gendered across many regions of the globe, especially in Africa, where access to and control over land and productive resources is affected by customary norms, usually discriminatory against women. This paper focuses on Mozambique's legal reform and institutional capacity-building efforts, with special attention to social institutions, to promote equitable land rights and enhance land tenure security. It is based on specific practices in documenting customary and statutory access, control, and ownership of land, considering both the ongoing legal reform and the systematic land registration program the country has been promoting over the past decade. This paper intends to document these efforts and good practices so that they can be used as a reference and others can benefit from them.
- Plural nature(s): an overview of their sociocultural constructionPublication . Alves, Fátima; Vidal, Diogo GuedesThe social construction of nature aims to emphasise that the concept of nature has multiple meanings that vary in different socio-cultural contexts. This underlines the multiple ways in which both structures and individuals understand, explain, and engage with nature and the environment. Consequently, nature and cultures/societies are not separate entities, but are intertwined in complex and interdependent relationships. Therefore, nature is the result of human perceptions and social practices. The way we interact with, perceive, interpret, and value nature is influenced by a given society’s history and sociocultural factors. This intimate relationship is closely linked to powerknowledge and influence relations. Those with more power can impose a particular vision of, and relationship with, nature, resulting in inequalities and potentially harmful relations that can explain the environmental degradation that the contemporary world faces globally, despite its expression in particular contexts, thus configuring plural natures.
- A proteção social básica como direito humano: um olhar sobre MoçambiquePublication . Chipe, Maria Elvira Carlos; Albuquerque, Rosana; Núncio, Maria JoséEste artigo convoca a atenção sobre o percurso das diferentes dinâmicas investidas no sistema de protecção social, como um direito fundamental e internacionalmente reconhecido: vida, saúde, educação, trabalho, habitação, ambiente saudável, entre outros, com vista ao desenvolvimento sustentável das nações. Mediante uma pesquisa exploratória e descritiva, o artigo visa trazer uma abordagem crítica sobre o sistema de protecção social moçambicano, onde, inicialmente, percebemos a protecção social como um modelo baseado no reconhecimento mútuo do outro como ser social e dotado de direitos, onde as redes de relações de vizinhança, parentesco e/ou até mesmo de pequenos grupos sociais, comungam da filosofia de partilha e/ou interajuda (troca de bens e serviços). Este sistema de protecção social, embora informal, assegurou em Moçambique, ao longo de vários anos, alguma estabilidade social e económica das famílias, em particular das carenciadas. Noutra vertente abordaremos a protecção social como direito inalienável, em que as governanças, na sua missão, têm a inteira responsabilidade de garantir o pleno gozo dos recursos e oportunidades que vão permitir que o indivíduo possa desenvolver capacidades e habilidades com vista ao bem-estar social. A concluir, teremos o panorama dos esforços que o Estado moçambicano, no âmbito dos acordos internacionais, empreende para uma protecção social mais efectiva e abrangente.