Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.
Instituto de Energia e Ambiente, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.
Cad Saude Publica. 2019 Aug 12;35(7):e00007918. doi: 10.1590/0102-311X00007918.
The urban nexus approach involves the investigation and elucidation of integrated solutions through the recognition of tradeoffs between water, energy, and food, namely resources whose shortage leads to inequalities in health. The article's central hypothesis is that the context of shortage corroborates social practices that can be synergic or contradictory in relation to the challenges of sustainability and social rights. The objective is to investigate synergies and contradictions based on social practices in the urban nexus in the neighborhood of Novo Recreio in the city of Guarulhos, Greater Metropolitan São Paulo, Brazil. The methodology consists of a qualitative ethnographic study drawing on practice theory as the reference, with direct field observations and narratives. The results featured social practices associated with systematic lack of water, precarious public lighting and transportation, and difficult access to fresh and healthy foods. The study of social practices between synergies and contradictions allowed verifying that this spontaneous process of search for solutions to local problems reveals the need to incorporate local practices and knowledge into public policies and global demands. We define nexus of exclusion as the peripheral condition of impossibility of conscious options that allow jointly orienting the reduction of shortage and iniquities through alternatives for sustainability.
城市关联方法涉及通过认识到水、能源和粮食之间的权衡取舍来调查和阐明综合解决方案，这些资源的短缺会导致健康不平等。本文的中心假设是，短缺的背景证实了社会实践，可以与可持续性和社会权利的挑战产生协同作用或矛盾。目的是调查巴西圣保罗大都市区瓜鲁柳斯市诺沃雷克里奥社区城市关联中的协同作用和矛盾，基于社会实践。该方法包括定性民族志研究，以实践理论为参考，进行直接实地观察和叙述。结果表明，存在与系统缺水、公共照明和交通不稳定以及难以获得新鲜和健康食品相关的社会行为。对协同作用和矛盾的社会实践的研究表明，这种自发寻求解决当地问题的过程需要将当地实践和知识纳入公共政策和全球需求。我们将排斥的关联定义为无法有意识地进行选择的边缘条件，这种选择允许通过可持续性的替代方案共同引导减少短缺和不平等。
