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  • Community leadership in Rio’s favelas: a showcase for resilience

    Community leadership in Rio’s favelas: a showcase for resilience0

    • International Relations and Global Affairs, Op-ed
    • 13/07/2016

    Rio de Janeiro has recently taken considerable initiative to better adapt to climate change and to make favelas more resilient. Yet, the positive effects have been limited. It is time to realize that the key to achieving true resilience lies within communities themselves.

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  • The unexpected champion: How Rio’s favelas strive to go green while Olympic legacy falls short

    The unexpected champion: How Rio’s favelas strive to go green while Olympic legacy falls short1

    • Environment and Energy, Op-ed
    • 01/07/2016

    The municipal government of Rio de Janeiro has promised to urbanize its favelas by 2020, but projects supposed to upgrade the favelas’ infrastructure and create jobs have quickly lost momentum. Fortunately, an unexpected champion has emerged, as residents of favelas have come together and taken the initiative to “green” their communities with reforestation projects, rooftop solar panels and community food gardening, highlighting how sustainable urban design should be done.

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  • Community leadership in Rio’s favelas: a showcase for resilience
    Community leadership in Rio's favelas: a showcase for resilience
    • International Relations and Global Affairs, Op-ed
    • 13/07/2016
  • The unexpected champion: How Rio’s favelas strive to go green while Olympic legacy falls short
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