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Currently, sustainable development represents a global challenge, especially in urban centers. In this sense, it is urgent that, in the public policies implemented by municipal governance, there are strategic actions related to the preservation of the environment (environmental dimension), the reduction of social inequalities (social dimension), the promotion of local economic growth (economic dimension), the conservation and dissemination of cultural traditions (cultural dimension), as well as the search for a balance between the built and natural environment (spatial dimension). Thus, it is urgent and necessary that the design plans of cities contemplate all dimensions of sustainability, thus enabling a concrete and effective sustainable urban development. Indeed, the objective of this study is to verify the relationship of public policies, developed in Fortaleza, with all the axes of urban sustainability, especially the one that contemplates the management of natural assets in the city. The methodological procedure is qualitative, exploratory, and descriptive. A bibliographic and documental survey was carried out (articles, scientific papers, and documents produced by the public power) through which the main sustainability public policies developed in Fortaleza were listed and presented. Then, the alignment of the objectives, goals, and actions described in these legal instruments was verified, as were the practices related to each of the dimensions of sustainability. It was observed that among the actions planned and implemented by the local government, all the dimensions of sustainability are contemplated, and a specific axis for governance is also present in these plans. It is important to emphasize that there are also specific plans or projects for the management of natural resources and maintenance of environmental quality, showing that in the urban space of Fortaleza there is a search for balance between the built and natural environments, focusing on the reduction of socio-environmental vulnerability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to describe a business model of a multidisciplinary junior enterprise that offers products and services. It starts from the identification that there are no multidisciplinary junior enterprises in the Federal District with courses in different knowledge areas; junior enterprises offer only services; there are no examples in the literature of how organizations that work with different levels of education can benefit from the performance of students from technical courses in a junior enterprise without being junior entrepreneurs. The description was based on the logic of the business model. The most important choices in the business model of Olaria Junior Enterprise were: institutional support via coproduction; multidisciplinarity; offer of products and services; development of partnerships; participation of students of technical courses in the junior enterprise; competitive prices and sustainable development. The paper seeks to contribute to the process of implementing junior enterprises in educational organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: The Green Belt Biosphere Reserve, with 2.33 million hectares and its internal urban area with 220 thousand hectares, is configured as a water security territory and expresses a direct relationship between urban development and areas that ensure well-being and ecosystem services for 12% of Brazil's population. With seventy-eight municipalities that fully or partially integrate the GBBR, the socioeconomic differences and the different contexts of urbanization and governance reflect on territorial management at the local level and impact the environmental and regional sustainable development agendas. Objective: Based on a survey of environmental policies and correlations between economic and socio-environmental indicators on a municipal scale for the entire study area, this article assesses the level of development of the main environmental public policies and identifies the relationship between these policies and socio-environmental indicators. Originality: Although the Green Belt Biosphere Reserve is an area recognized by the United Nations (UN), the management of its territory depends on municipal actions that comprise it. Little attention has been paid to environmental management, especially in terms of public environmental policies and a broad and ongoing understanding of the conservation of this area. Results: The analysis shows that the different municipalities in the GBBR have different levels of implementation regarding Environmental Agenda. When considering the Municipal Plans for Urban Afforestation, Adaptation to Climate Change, Atlantic Forest and Solid Waste, only Guarujá, Mogi das Cruzes, Santos and São Paulo have these four policies in preparation or completed, while for 33.3% (n=25) of the municipalities, none of these agendas was developed, and a positive correlation was identified between the HDI and the largest number of implemented policies. Contribution: Large and medium-sized cities in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, present studies addressing ecological patterns and processes, however, they do not address specific questions on the environmental sector itself, which this paper aimed at providing. Conclusion: As the Green Belt accounts for 72% of the volume of drinking water in all of São Paulo, the disparities between the municipal indicators analyzed reinforce the need to adopt the GBBR as a platform for adequate governance to integrate policies at different scales for sustainable regional development. Systemic efforts are needed, especially at the municipal scale, in order to carry out adequate environmental management of the GBBR territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: This study aims to conduct a comprehensive bibliometric and literature review to describe the origin and content of research on corporate sustainability reporting in Latin America published in journals indexed in the SCOPUS, WoS, SCIELO, and REDIB databases on corporate sustainability reporting in Latin America and to contribute to its theoretical development and promote the performance and disclosure of sustainability in the region. Methodology: The comprehensive bibliometric and literature review used a quantitative and qualitative approach, with a descriptive scope through a content analysis of the papers' origin and nature according to the established qualitative categories. Originality/Relevance: The research contributes to increasing the body of literature on sustainability reporting research in Latin America and proposes a regional planning research to improve performance and sustainability reports with the stakeholders in the organizations of the region's countries. Results: The results of the analysis of 75 publications in 40 journals show an increase until the 2018 period. Most of the publications were by Brazilian and Colombian authors and journals. The largest number of studies corresponds to descriptive quantitative research based on content analysis of reports prepared according to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Studies mainly consider institutional and legitimacy theories. There is also an absence of studies that consider stakeholder theory, address contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and deal with environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting in the Latin American context. Social contributions: A pending research agenda is presented on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability reporting in Latin American organizations as a contribution to the sustainable development in Latin America. Therefore, a regional plan of research is proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article aims to present a brief historical overview of the performance of the Regional Development Bank of the Far South (BRDE) in these 61 years of existence and the perspectives for the future. To do so, it begins by approaching the context of its creation and the advances made in the first decades. Then, the paper describes the recent performance of the development institution, highlighting the financing contracts, the strategy of diversifying the sources of resources, the financial results, the support to innovation and the actions of socio-environmental responsibility. Next, it discusses the BRDE's position in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, which generated restrictions on production activity and the mobility of people. The study subsequently highlights the BRDE's future agenda, showing the advance of its own methodology that shows the adherence of the Bank's contracts to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Regional Vision 2040 project and the proposal to create the South Fund. Finally, the final considerations express the main ideas presented throughout the article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current paper analyzes environmental education as a type of promotion of sustainable development. Based on the deductive method, research features as exploratory, bibliographical and descriptive and discusses the effects of globalization that developed in hyper consumerism. Further, sustainability is seen as a model of development caused by the urgency to implement human activities that would impair necessary conditions to maintain human life on the plant for future generations. Analyses on education will be developed as a tool to make feasible the diffused idea of the preservation of the ecologically balanced environment for present and future generations. It may be concluded that environmental education is a basic right to attain sustainable development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The "Forest Cities" are those regions planned and built almost instantaneously to comfortably house only the worker of the large investment project. Such areas redefined the regional context of the traditional Community of Iratapuru/AP, housing people in a temporary way to attend the accomplishment of a certain construction in an immediate way. This resulted in some implications and (re)existence of traditional peoples with the construction of a Hydroelectric Power Plant. Therefore, this paper aims to understand and analyze the territorial implications of the construction and operation of the Santo Antônio do Jari Hydroelectric Power Plant in the Traditional Community of Iratapuru, in the Iratapuru Sustainable Development Reserve - ISDS, located in southern Amapá State. It verified that the enterprise caused changes in socio-environmental relations and in the perception of people in their sense of place as belonging in space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discussions on Sustainable Cities, Smart Cities and Bioeconomics have become more comprehensive over the past few decades, considering the need for the applicability of sustainability among the various human activities around the planet. Then, this paper aims to examine, highlighted by literature, the conceptual boundaries between the Sustainable Cities, Smart Cities and Bioeconomics terms. The systematic review method was applied on this research, based on the website Periódicos Capes and Web Of Science. The search in these databases was carried out from January 2010 to December 2019, resulting in the selection of 217 articles. It found that the academic production related to Sustainable Cities, Smart Cities and Bioeconomics aproaches is scarce. The results motivate the continuation of new survey complementary data in other data bases in order to expand its scope of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]