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3 - Environment and irregular occupations
Analyze the relationship between urbanization and the environment is fundamental
to understand the mediations that arise between the need of social housing and
environmental respect.
In the case of Ponta Grossa, its urban area has about only 150 km of streams in
urban and largely due to its topography in the valleys, the irregular occupations that are
located in these locations.
The preservation of the environment is an essential theme and special Ponta
Grossa, this ecological consciousness brings with it a need for a process of
environmental education.
Thus, planning the organization of urban space must be examined by a team of
professionals in various areas in partnership with the communities concerned to
promote alternative solutions with adequate infrastructure and legally for the families as
well as environmental remediation projects that provide improvements to support social
inclusion and sustainability.
Thus, including the population living in irregular occupations, located in the
vicinity of streams, in all steps to propose and implement improvements would create
an interaction between nature and man and not treating them as distinct, but as
interacting components in environment.
As the prerogative of the Brazilian Agenda 21, sustainable development seeks to
improve the lives of all people without increasing the use of natural resources beyond
the capacity of the earth.
Thus, the urban planning is crucial to the process of urbanization can be worked in
order to avoid further problems and deterioration in physical space. With the relocation
of families that generate environmental degradation of streams and riparian areas and
consequently live in areas at risk and secondly the regularization of lawfully made
possible thereby, whether it was complying with an integrated planning in the city and
thinking of all points that comprise the process for solving problems arising from the
socio historical process of urbanization in Ponta Grossa and consequent environmental
degradation.
It is also essential to undertake actions consistent to prevent new jobs mainly in
environmental areas and providing housing programs to meet the housing law. With
these proposals would preserve the care of social rights as constitutionally protected
environmental law and housing rights, which have the same conceptual core, which is
the socio-environmental function of property.
The great challenge for the actors involved in the urban setting is to reconcile these
two rights and build a scenario. It is necessary to adopt an inclusive model of urban
growth where the humans can live in nature in a sustainable way in terms of
promotions.
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