Community action and urban development: transforming a former landfill into a sustainable space

Authors

  • Eleonora Ribeiro Cardoso
  • Bruno Henrique Lopes Moreti
  • Paulino Alexandre Vieira Carneiro
  • Suzielem Santos Silva

Keywords:

Community action , Interdisciplinary practices, Operational workshops , Sustainable activities

Abstract

This work deals with multiple and ongoing, interdisciplinary actions and academic university extension courses with the low-income community of Jardim Paraguai, located in Barra do Bugres – Mato Grosso, an area that was a former city landfill and where there is a large hole, configuring an area of ​​environmental, urban and health risk to the community. There, the multidisciplinary team will carry out the following activities each month: Community Awareness, Water Action, Sanitation, Implementation of a Hanging Garden and Spice Garden, Arts and Daily Sustainable Practices, Ecological Footprint and Environmental Comfort, Alternative Food Processing, Selective Waste Collection, Actions and Creations with Scrap from alternative equipment, Environmental Education Actions. In technical and operational partnership with the City Hall, the Cerrado Flower Forest – a sustainable community park – will be implemented immediately after the hole is finally filled. Each activity developed is preceded by social actions with the local community, which is a participant and cooperative. It is expected that the urban space will be transformed and recovered, giving more sustainable uses to the degraded areas. In addition, the community residents will learn new environmentally sustainable methodologies; that they will create a space for food production with a vegetable garden and that they will learn techniques for processing food waste to produce both hygiene products and functional foods – alternative practices for supplementing their income; that they will acquire notions of sustainable use of water resources, adopting the practice of selective garbage collection; and of sustainable daily practices. The installation of a Cerrado flower forest and a sustainable community park – where the degraded hole, former landfill, and area of ​​stagnant and deteriorated water used to be – will constitute a sustainable recovery of the space and citizenship of the community.

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Published

2015-12-19

How to Cite

Cardoso, E. R., Moreti, B. H. L., Carneiro, P. A. V., & Silva, S. S. (2015). Community action and urban development: transforming a former landfill into a sustainable space. RealizAção, 2(4), 61–69. Retrieved from https://ojs.ufgd.edu.br/realizacao/article/view/5934

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