Renaturing Urban Rivers Opportunities and Challenges of Involving Riverine Communities

Preface 

Rivers as Administrative Boundaries and an Approach to Reading a Fluvial Landscape—The Case of the Cajuru Linear Park

Eliana do Pilar Rocha and Carlos Smaniotto Costa

Development of Riverfronts in Belgrade: From Recreation Area to Megaprojects

Aleksandra Djukić, Jelena Marić, Nikola Mitrović and Emilija Jović

Exploring Stakeholder Engagement in Urban River Recovery: An Ibero-American Perspective

Ana Vera, Antoni Mas-Ponce, Montserrat Pallares-Barbera, Nagayamma Aragão, Sandrine Simon, Sònia Sànchez-Mateo and Carlos Smaniotto Costa

Extraction vs. Heritage: Promoting Riverine Fishing Communities in Arctic Villages

Stefano Tornieri and Agatino Rizzo

The City of Montreal and the St. Lawrence River Shores: A Recent History of Rediscovery and Reconnection

Anouk Bélanger, Maxim Bonin and Xavier Massicotte

Implementing Nature-Based Solutions in Urban River Landscapes: Opportunities and Constraints in the Vistula River Valley, Warsaw

Piotr Sikorski and Kinga Kimic

Integrating Rivers into the Urban Fabric of Kanpur, India: Regenerating Ganga River to Meet Community Needs and Mitigate Environmental Challenges

Sagarika Nayak, Nazish Abid, Somi Sareen and Sameen Fatma

Walking Through Memories of Waterways

Marluci Menezes, Juliana Valentim Harayashiki and Silvia Mikami Pina

Collaborative Efforts in Urban River Monitoring: The Role of Digital Citizen Science

Joaquín Cochero, María Agostina Pecile, Alejo Fabián Bonifacio, Milagros Bengolea, Micaela Zambrano, Juan Manuel Brito, María Mercedes Nicolosi Gelis, María Belén Sathicq, Micaela Ailén Mujica, María Laura Ballesteros, Andrea Hued, Silvana Halac, Rocío Soledad Pazos, Maricel Centi Ferrei, Marina Tagliaferro, María Dalponte Ayastuy and Diego Torres

Land Tenure Regularisation in Areas of Socio-Environmental Conflict: Struggling for the Arrudas River (Belo Horizonte, Brazil)

Nagayamma Aragão, Luciana Souza Bragança and Alana Costa de Oliveira

Socio-Spatial Representations of the Everyday Uses of the River Cambamba, Luanda

Edson Kiluanje Paulino Lourenço and Marluci Menezes

From Flooding to (New) Opportunities—The River City Cesena, Italy, is Turning the Tide

Bahanur Nasya, Yilmaz Vurucu, Giulia Turci, Emma Veronese, Silivia Iacuzzi and Mary Sarsam

The Game Inventa(rio) Cidades—Raising Multispecies and Environmental Dialogue for Urban Rivers

Luciana Souza Bragança and Marcela Silviano Brandão

Index

Biography

Carlos Smaniotto Costa (PhD) is a Professor of Urban Ecology at Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon, and an Associate Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design (CIAUD). His research activities focus on the synergistic potential of environmental and nature conservation for urban contexts, urban and landscape design, and the co-creation of open spaces. Smaniotto has edited several international books and has publications in professional journals in Portuguese, English, German and Italian.