Cadernos Metrópole 68: Socio-environmental inequalities in metropolitan regions and Nature-based Solutions

The Scientific Editors and Editorial Committee of the journal Cadernos Metrópole invite researchers from areas of knowledge that approach the urban and regional issue to send texts to the organization of volume 29, number 68, about the theme

 

Socio-environmental inequalities in metropolitan regions

and Nature-based Solutions

Organizers: Augusto César Salomão Mozine, Tiago Miguel d’Ávila Martins de Freitas,

Lucia Maria Machado Bógus

 

In recent years, Nature-based Solutions (NbS) have been consolidated as an approach to addressing various global socioeconomic and environmental challenges, gaining increasing prominence. These solutions have become popular strategies for addressing the climate and biodiversity crises, gaining international attention in multilateral and financial institutions and being increasingly incorporated by national, regional, and local governments.

In recent decades, there has been significant growth in the number of NbS projects, especially in cities. This progress has been accompanied by an increasing effort in formulating typologies, guidelines, certification systems, and metrics aimed at guiding their application and measuring their impacts. However, searching for solutions to the urban environmental issue should involve questioning their role in reducing social inequalities and promoting social justice.

This concern stems from the fact that the market related to NbS has been expanding, with the emergence of new business models, innovative financial instruments, and growing interest from public and private investors, especially in the context of green finance and climate commitment. However, attention to socio-environmental vulnerabilities in metropolises and metropolitan areas remains marginal within large-scale projects, or what is observed is a process of displacement of vulnerable social groups from spaces subject to socio-environmental requalification. 

Therefore, this dynamic demands a more in-depth critical analysis, in which it is fundamental to question who defines what counts as NbS, what interests are prioritized, how the benefits are distributed, and the real impacts generated by these solutions in the territories. Important conceptual challenges persist, related to understanding the cultural, political, and economic dimensions of NbS and their social impact in redistributive terms, which makes it difficult to overcome a view that prioritizes environmental impacts to the detriment of social cohesion and well-being.

Thus, we invite researchers to contribute to this volume by submitting critical studies that address multi- or interdisciplinary perspectives on Nature-based Solutions (from problem identification through co-creation, implementation, monitoring, and management), as well as present proposals and experiences for combating socio-environmental inequalities and promoting inclusion and environmental justice, based on the following themes:

• The social, political, and institutional contexts and the material and discursive elements that influence the implementation of NbS;

• The impact of citizens’ perceptions and expectations regarding NbS on the formulation of regional and local urban policies;

• Effective co-creation in the governance design of NbS, seeking greater participation of communities and vulnerable groups in the promotion of environmental justice;

• Inclusion of a greater diversity of knowledge, perspectives of less privileged groups, ethnicity, and gender in NbS dissemination strategies.

 

Deadline to send manuscripts: FEBRUARY 28, 2026

 

INSTRUCTIONS TO THE AUTHORS

 

SCOPE AND EDITORIAL POLICY

The Journal Cadernos Metrópole is published three times a year and focuses on the debate on issues related to urbanization processes and the different forms that the urban question assumes in the contemporary reality. It is targeted at the academic community in general, especially the areas of Architecture and Urbanism, Urban and Regional Planning, Geography, Demography and Social Sciences.

The Journal publishes texts authored by researchers and scholars who study urban themes and discuss the effects of socio-spatial transformations on the conditioning of the cities’ political-institutional system, and also challenges to the adoption of management models based on urban governance. The Journal does not publish texts authored by undergraduate students.

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This license allows others to remix, adapt, and build upon the material for non-commercial purposes. Although new materials must give appropriate credit and may not be used for commercial purposes, users are not obliged to license derived materials under the same terms. 

The Journal offers free and immediate access to its content, as it follows the principle that making scientific knowledge available to the public for free enables greater international democratization of knowledge. 

The Journal does not charge submission, publication or any other kind of fees on its processes. It is a scientific vehicle targeted at the Brazilian scientific community.

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Journal Cadernos Metrópole has a thematic nucleus, with a specific Call for Papers, and a nucleus of free themes related to the areas mentioned above. Thematic texts must be sent within the established deadline and must comply with the requirements of the Call for Papers, while free texts are received by the journal continuously.

The papers can be written in Portuguese, Spanish, English or French.

Papers submitted to Cadernos Metrópole must be submitted through the link https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/metropole/about/submissions.

Papers must NOT contain any kind of author identification.

The Journal does not accept articles having more than 3 authors.

The journal does not publish articles of authorship or co-authorship of graduates. If necessary, they will be cited as "collaborators" at the end of the text.

At least one author/co-author must hold a doctorate degree at the time of submission.

It is fundamental to send the Private Instrument of Authorization and Assignment of Copyright, dated and signed by the author(s). The document must be attached at step 4 of the paper's submission.

The texts will be published in the original language and in English. The quality and costs of the translation will be the sole responsibility of the authors. Translation is mandatory only for texts that are selected for publication.

Translations must have been reviewed by a specialist or equivalent professional, to be paid for by the author. Translations performed by artificial intelligence without professional human review will not be accepted.

Authors must comply with an interval of 2 (two) editions for new publication

 

EVALUATION OF PAPERS

Papers received for publication must be original and will be submitted to the appreciation of the members of the Editorial Board and of ad hoc consultants, who will issue their opinions. The papers will receive two evaluations and, whenever necessary, a third one. The anonymity of authors and reviewers is respected. 

The Scientific Editors and the Editorial Committee are in charge of the final selection of the texts that were recommended for publication by the reviewers, taking into account their academic-scientific consistency, clearness, relevance, originality and opportune discussion of the theme. 

The texts approved by the referees that were not selected for publication in the issue to which they were submitted will be presented to the editors of the subsequent issues, to be published in the Complementary Texts section.

 

COMMUNICATION WITH AUTHORS

The authors will receive an e-mail with the final decision, and the Journal may not return unpublished originals.

 

AUTHOR’S RIGHTS

The Journal cannot afford to pay copyright nor distribute copies of individual papers. 

The Private Instrument of Authorization and Assignment of Copyright, dated and signed by the author(s), must be sent with the paper.

The content of the text is the authors’ responsibility.

Manuscripts must be accompanied by a data availability statement for the data used or generated in the research underlying the texts.

The final version of the approved article will be published with the name of the editor or editors responsible for the manuscript evaluation process.

 

AUTHORS' CONTRIBUTION

Each author’s contribution should be identified according to the CREDiT taxonomy, according to specific functions: conceptualization; data curation; formal analysis; funding acquisition; investigation; methodology; project administration; resources; software; supervision; validation; visualization; writing of the original draft; writing-review and editing.

 

NORMS FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Papers must have, in that order:

• title in Portuguese, or in the language in which it was written, and in English;
• abstract with 120 (one hundred and twenty) words at the most, in Portuguese or in the language in which the paper was written, and another one in English, with indication of 5 (five) keywords in Portuguese or in the language in which the paper was written, and in English;
• text keyboarded in Word, space 1.5, font Arial size 11; the text must have 20 to 25  pages at the most, including tables, graphs, figures, and bibliographic references; images must be sent in JPG format, with minimum resolution of 300 dpi and maximum width of 13 cm;
• subtitles, no more than 6 words;
• bibliographic references following the instructions below rigorously:

Books

AUTHOR or EDITOR (ed.) (year of publication). Title of the book. City of publication, Publishing house.

Example:

CASTELLS, M. (1983). A questão urbana. Rio de Janeiro, Paz e Terra.

 

Book chapters

CHAPTER'S AUTHOR (year of publication). "Title of the chapter". In: BOOK'S AUTHOR or EDITOR (ed.). Title of the book. City of publication, Publishing house.

Example:

BRANDÃO, M. D. de A. (1981). “O último dia da criação: mercado, propriedade e uso do solo em Salvador”. In: VALLADARES, L. do P. (ed.). Habitação em questão. Rio de Janeiro, Zahar.

 

Papers published in journals

PAPER'S AUTHOR (year of publication). Title of the paper. Title of the journal. City, journal's volume, journal's issue, paper's initial and final page.

Example:

TOURAINE, A. (2006). Na fronteira dos movimentos sociais. Sociedade e Estado. Dossiê movimentos sociais. Brasília, v. 21, n.1, pp. 17-28.

 

Papers presented in scientific events

PAPER'S AUTHOR (year of publication). Title of the paper. In: NAME OF CONGRESS, number, year, place where it was held. Title of the publication. City, Publishing house, initial and final pages.

Example:

SALGADO, M. A. (1996). Políticas sociais na perspectiva da sociedade civil: mecanismos de controle social, monitoramento e execução, parcerias e financiamento. In: SEMINÁRIO INTERNACIONAL ENVELHECIMENTO POPULACIONAL: UMA AGENDA PARA O FINAL DO SÉCULO. Anais. Brasília, MPAS/SAS, pp. 193-207.

 

Theses, dissertations and monographs

AUTHOR (year of publication). Title. Doctoral dissertation or Master's thesis. City, Institution.

Example:

FUJIMOTO, N. (1994). A produção monopolista do espaço urbano e a desconcentração do terciário de gestão na cidade de São Paulo. O caso da avenida Engenheiro Luís Carlos Berrini. Master's thesis. São Paulo, Universidade de São Paulo.

 

Internet texts 

AUTHOR (year of publication). Title of the text. Available from. Date of access.

Example:

FERREIRA, J. S. W. (2005). A cidade para poucos: breve história da propriedade urbana no Brasil. Available from: http://www.usp.br/fau/depprojeto/labhab/index.html. Access on: Sep 8 2005.