Territorial inequalities in access to water and sewage in the peripheries of the Metropolis: the case of the Baixada Fluminense in the Guandu Basin – RJ - Brazil
The expansion of metropolitan areas, especially in Brazil, has required reflections about the conditions of habitability and life in cities, especially in peripheral areas, marked by deep inequalities in the inaccessibility of services, which reveal the contradictions of the general conditions of pr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Editora da Geografia
2022-07-01
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| Series: | Geografares |
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| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufes.br/geografares/article/view/38741 |
| Summary: | The expansion of metropolitan areas, especially in Brazil, has required reflections about the conditions of habitability and life in cities, especially in peripheral areas, marked by deep inequalities in the inaccessibility of services, which reveal the contradictions of the general conditions of production in these areas. A great example is accessibility to the services of technical water and sewage infrastructure networks, seen as primary elements and essential to human dignity. The inequalities in this access are marked territorially and end up revealing internal differentiations that soften the problems of peripheral areas. Therefore, this article aims to discuss this inequality, taking as an example the case of 5 peripheral municipalities of Rio de Janeiro, which are part of the region popularly known as Baixada Fluminense, marked by the paradox of insertion in one of the largest watersheds of urban supply in the world and the condition of vulnerability in access to sanitation. |
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| ISSN: | 1518-2002 2175-3709 |