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  • On Unstable Ground: Issues Involved in Greening Space in the Rocinha Favela of Rio De Janeiro

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    Rekow, Leanne
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    Rekow, Leanne E.
    Year published
    2016
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    Abstract
    This paper is based on fieldwork undertaken in conjunction with Green My Favela, a land use restoration project that works with informal and vulnerable income sector residents to reclaim chronically degraded public areas by creating gardens inside the urban favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The paper reveals how government intervention policies employed in the lead up to the 2016 Olympics are destabilizing the fragile social fabric of the city’s largest favela, Rocinha, through military occupation and urbanization activities that threaten an already low and unstable human security threshold.This paper is based on fieldwork undertaken in conjunction with Green My Favela, a land use restoration project that works with informal and vulnerable income sector residents to reclaim chronically degraded public areas by creating gardens inside the urban favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The paper reveals how government intervention policies employed in the lead up to the 2016 Olympics are destabilizing the fragile social fabric of the city’s largest favela, Rocinha, through military occupation and urbanization activities that threaten an already low and unstable human security threshold.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Human Security
    Volume
    12
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.12924/johs2016.12010052
    Copyright Statement
    © 2016 by the authors; licensee Librello, Switzerland. This open access article was published under a Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
    Subject
    Political Science not elsewhere classified
    Political Science
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/100247
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