CASE STUDY : RIO DE JANEIRO AND ROCINHA

Question 1

What is the NEE case study?

Answer 1

Rio de Janerio , Brazil

Question 2

Where is Rio de Janerio located and it’s population?

Answer 2

• along the cosatline to the south-east of Brazil(with it neigbours Sao Paublo which is to the west)
• has 12 million population

Question 3

How is healthcare in Rio?

Answer 3

• challenges 2013 only 55% of the city had a local family health clinic
• services for pregnant women and the elderly were very poor especially in the west zone

Question 4

Soultions for healthcare

Answer 4

• the urban E health project - an 18 month trail- was introducted in Santa Marta Favela
• medical staff took the healthcare kit into 100 (elderly) people’s homes
• 20 different diseases was detected and treated them
• infant mortality has decrease and life

Question 5

How is education in Rio?

Answer 5

• education in Brazil is compulsory for children aged 6-14
• in Rio only half of all children continue in education beyond the age of 14 this is due to:

1. A shortage of nearby schools
2. A lack of money and need to work
3. A shortage of teachers(most are low-paid and poor trained)

Question 6

Soultions for education

Answer 6

Authorities have:

• encouraged local people to volunteer to help in school
• set up the “school of tomorrow” program = had successful enrolled 16,000 primary age pupils into school
• which was due to school grants to poor families handed out = to help keep their children in school
• make money available to pay for free lessons in volleyball, football, swimming and squash in Roccinha favela

Question 7

How is water supply in Rio?

Answer 7

• around 12 of Rios population did not have access
  to running water
• estimates say that 37% of water is lost through
  leaking pipes, fraud and illegal access

Question 8

Solutions for water supply

Answer 8

• seven new treatment plants were built between
  1998 and 2014
• over 300km of pipes were laid
• by 2014, 95% of the population had a mains water
  supply

Question 9

What is the 4 environmental problems in Rio?

Answer 9

• air pollution
• traffic congestion
• water pollution
• waste pollution

Question 10

Problems with air pollution

Answer 10

• 5000 deaths per year in Rio = smog is often covered the city
• heavy traffic and congestion on roads
  causes build-up of exhaust fumes
• mist from the Atlantic mixes with the vehicle exhaust
  fumes and pollutant from factory chimneys

Question 11

Solutions with air pollution

Answer 11

• Coastal roads are one-way during rush

hours

Question 12

Problems with traffic congestion

Answer 12

• steep mountains –reduced land to build roads = coastal
  roads can become congested
• 40% increase in cars in the last decade
• high crime levels mean that many people prefer to travel by car

Question 13

Solutions with traffic congestion

Answer 13

• expansion of the metro system under Guanabara Bay to south zone & Barra de Tijuca
• new toll roads into the city centre = reduce congestion
• pacification = the government set uo 37 UPP in to the favelas (Santa Marta in 2008 was the first to pacifed) to drive out criminal gangs - like the red command

Question 14

Problems with water pollution

Answer 14

• many of the 55 rivers flowing into Guanabara Bay are heavily polluted = anoxic water
• over 200 tonnes of raw sewage pours into the bay each day
• over 50 tonnes of industrial waste

Question 15

Solutions with water pollution

Answer 15

• 12 new sewage works have been built since 2004
• ships are fined for discharging fuel into the bay illegally
• 5.3kn of new sewage pipes installed in polluted areas

Question 16

Problems with waste pollution

Answer 16

• its worst in the favelas (rubbish laying on the streets)

- many are built on steep slopes = access are difficult for waste collection lorries

Question 17

Solutions with waste pollution

Answer 17

• a power plant has been set up near the university of Rio using methane gas from rotting rubbish (biogas)

Question 18

Key information for Rocinha (a favela)

Answer 18

• holds 100,000 population
• has self-help schemes = Barrio project
• poor infrastructure
• informal sector -jobs created by a person to make money = no hoilday pay or sick pay

Question 19

Key information for Complexo de Alemao (a favela)

Answer 19

• holds 100,000 population
• in 2011 opened the Teleferico do Alemao cable car system
• it took 15 mintues from Complexo do Alemao to the city it took 3000 passengers per hour