Brazil
Is it possible to think of a form of economic and social development that can also provide an answer to the new challenges related to climate change?
Can environmental protection and maintenance of a territory become a livelihood resource and possible means of improving the living conditions of the communities that inhabit it?
One potential solution to these pressing issues can be found in Bujaru, Brazil, at the gateway to the Amazon rainforest. Here, Delibera Brasil has worked to empower local citizens, often the first to face the impacts of climate change, by organising citizens' assemblies. Through these assemblies, Delibera Brasil has fostered unprecedented collaboration between local communities, public institutions, and private stakeholders, offering a model of collective action to tackle environmental and social challenges.
Marcella Nery is the project coordinator at Delibera Brasil, a non-profit, supra-partisan organisation dedicated to strengthening and deepening democracy through citizen deliberation. She holds a master's degree in Public Administration and Government from Fundação Getulio Vargas and a master's degree in Sociology from Fundação Escola de Sociologia e Política de São Paulo. She is a German Chancellor Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin. Currently she leads research on inclusion of marginalised groups in participatory processes in Brazil and Germany.
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