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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Environ. Sci.
Sec. Social-Ecological Urban Systems
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2024.1341593
This article is part of the Research Topic Possible Nature(s) in Urban Spaces: Plurality and Agency to Tackle Socio-Ecological Challenges View all 8 articles

Transforming cities into sustainable and healthy territories starts with the "Culture of water": learning from Traditional Peoples and Communities of the Carapitanga River Basin

Provisionally accepted
Júlia Bastos Borges Júlia Bastos Borges 1,2Edmundo Gallo Edmundo Gallo 2*Simonne Teixeira Simonne Teixeira 1
  • 1 State University of Northern Rio de Janeiro, Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 2 Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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    The manuscript titled "Transforming Cities into Sustainable and Healthy Territories Begins with the 'Culture of Water': Learning from Traditional Peoples and Communities of the Carapitanga River Basin" presents an innovative and relevant perspective for addressing water disparities and socioecological challenges in urban contexts, aligning comprehensively with the scope of the journal "Possible Nature(s) in Urban Spaces: Plurality and Agency to Tackle Socio-Ecological Challenges." This study is in direct harmony with the highlighted themes of the journal, encompassing Society-Nature relations, socioecological challenges, and Viable Socio-ecological Futures. By contributing ideas on regenerative cultures and sustainable futures, we believe our work can enrich the discourse promoted by the journal. The inclusion of this manuscript will broaden understanding of Water Governance, potentially contributing to the discussion on the importance of Water Culture for balancing the Hydrosocial Cycle in the construction of sustainable urban futures.

    Keywords: Júlia Bastos Borges: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, investigation, methodology, supervision, Validation, Writing -original draft, Writing -review & editing. Edmundo Gallo: Conceptualization

    Received: 20 Nov 2023; Accepted: 22 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Borges, Gallo and Teixeira. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Edmundo Gallo, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, 4365, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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