URBAN CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE RIGHT TO SUSTAINABLE HOUSING: CHALLENGES, PERSPECTIVES AND STRATEGIES FOR RESILIENT CITIES

Desafios, perspectivas e estratégias para cidades resilientes

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the impact of climate change in urban areas, focusing on the right to sustainable housing, seeking to understand the identify development perspectives and propose strategies that enable the promotion of resilience in urban cities in the face of climate change. As a research problem, what are the challenges, perspectives and strategies for resilient cities in the face of urban climate change and the right to sustainable housing? The study is structured in six parts covering the challenges of climate emergency in cities and the right to housing, after facing the problem of lack of urban planning, then discusses urban sustainability, therefore faces housing as a social problem in Brazil, discusses the prospects for the right to sustainable housing and as a last analysis proposes strategies for Resilient Cities, and finally follows to the conclusions articulated. As for the methodological aspects, the theoretical work observed as a method of approach the hypothetical-deductive, through the procedure of bibliographical and documentary research with indirect data collection and legal interpretation with sociological bias. It ends by demonstrating that the recognition of the fundamental right to climate protection is directly related to the fulfillment of the goals established in the international documentation of protection of humanity and that the right to housing in the 21st century needs to be understood and implemented through plural public policies that take into account environmental aspects arising from climate change.