Research line: Environmental management and urban sustainability
Focused on urban environment, the aim is to improve and to apply sustainability concepts by means of studies that allow diagnosing and contributing to environmental management, interpreting cities as open systems, due to their influence and dependence on life support ecosystems, providers of inputs, power, environmental services etc. Construction, implementation and assessment of policies, planning and inter-sectorial environmental management, both in public and private spheres, are addressed. The research is expected to positively interfere with temporal and spatial scales, both in the environment and in human health in different degrees of intensity, considering meeting present needs and the conservation of resources to meet the demand of future generations.
Advisors: Arlindo Philippi Jr.; Delsio Natal; Eduardo Mario Mendiondo; Gabriela Marques Di Giulio; Helena Ribeiro; Leandro Luiz Giatti; Maria Regina Alves Cardoso; Maria da Penha Vasconcellos; Paulo Cesar Xavier Pereira; Renata Ferraz de Toledo; Rodolfo Andrade de Gouveia Vilela; Rubens de Camargo Ferreira Adorno; Tadeu Fabricio Malheiros; Wanda Maria Risso Günther; Wanderley da Silva Paganini.
Research line: Environmental sanitation services management
It is concerned with identifying interfaces of environmental sanitation with human health and the environment, so as to study and to establish processes for managing sanitation systems which may interfere with population health and quality of life indicators. It involves studies into quality of environmental compartments (water, air and soil) and environmental sanitation systems and technologies, focusing on policy, planning and management as well as assessment of services. The themes addressed are: Management and use of natural resources; Water use/reuse; Management of environmental quality (water, air and soil) in collective, isolated and unitary systems; Sanitation systems (water, sewage, effluents, draining and residues) implementation and management; Management of urban, industrial and special waste; Degraded and contaminated areas; Environmental contaminants and pollution control systems (water, air and soil); Vulnerability and adaptation of systems and sanitation services to deal with climate change events.
Advisors: Arlindo Philippi Jr.; Ednilson Viana; Eduardo Mario Mendiondo; Gabriela Marques Di Giulio; João Vicente de Assunção; José Luiz Negrão Mucci; Marcelo Antunes Nolasco; Roque Passos Piveli; Tadeu Fabricio Malheiros; Wanda Maria Risso Günther; Wanderley da Silva Paganini.
Research line: Environmental health and workers’ care
It is concerned with investigations regarding knowledge, identification and analysis of environmental determinants and with work that pose risk and danger to the human population, viewing the establishment of public policies to minimize and/or to reduce such exposure. It also proposes to investigate uncertainties and limitations inherent to risks not yet acknowledged, which demand an actuation following precaution principles. It contributes to meeting demands deriving from public policies to strengthen Environmental Health and Workers’ Health Care, conducted by the Ministry of Health, unfolding into a decentralization process, constituting a relevant strategy of full attention to health. It can thus contribute to consolidating the National Full Attention to Workers’ Health Network and of Environmental Health Care subsystems, such as Vigiágua, Vigisolo, Vigidesastres etc., among other initiatives associated to this public policy.
Advisors: Delsio Natal; Ildeberto Muniz de Almeida; João Vicente de Assunção; José Marçal Jackson Filho; Leandro Luiz Giatti; Maria Dionísia do Amaral Dias; Maria Regina Alves Cardoso; Maria Tereza Pepe Razzolini; Rodolfo Andrade de Gouveia Vilela.