This book presents a set of chapters produced by six research groups that developed the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) Thematic Project Environmental Governance of the São Paulo macrometropolis (SPMM) in the face of Climate Variability (2017-2022). It represents an academic experience based on the articulation of knowledge and interdisciplinary dialogue. For this publication, the individual research groups benefitted from internal expertise and interdisciplinary input, reflecting the collaborative process of the entire team.

The SPMM is characterized by the diversity and complementarity of economic, social and environmental functions exercised in its territory, comprising 174 municipalities, with the capital city of São Paulo as its polarizing center. It is structured from a set of five metropolitan regions, two urban agglomerates and one micro-region-not institutionalized-in the State of São Paulo, sheltering around 34 million people who inhabit the richestand economically strongest region in Brazil. The SPMM, one of the urban territorial clusters of greatest expression in the southern hemisphere, is a strategic arena for the formulation and implementation of planning, governance and trans- and multi-scalar regional public policies.

The English translation of this book from its Portuguese original manuscript was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision of the content was done by the volume editors.

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Pedro Roberto Jacobi is a senior full professor at the Institute of Energy and Environment of the University of Sâo Paulo and researcher at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of São Paulo. He has international expertise with environmental governance, water governance, climate justice, environmental education for sustainability and social learning. His experience is strongly anchored in national and international collaborative research through interdisciplinary approaches in Brazil as well as in the Latin American context. He has longtime time advisory experience with graduate and post-doctoral students. He has been an editor of the journal Ambiente e Sociedade since 1997, a member of advisory boards of several scientific institutions and journals and president of South America board of ICLEi-Local Governments for Sustainability since 2011.

Alexander Turra is a full professor at the Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo (IOUSP) and coordinator of the UNESCO Chair on Ocean Sustainability, based at the Oceanographic Institute and the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of São Paulo. Turra is a biologist who exercises interdisciplinary and integrated research, focusing on themes such as marine biodiversity, governance, integrated management, marine conservation, environmental impact assessment, climate change and marine pollution (marine litter). Turra seeks to promote the integration between science and society, policymakers and the private sector to support public policies, technological development and innovation applied to the ocean.

Célio Bermann is an associate professor at the Institute of Energy and Environment of the University of São Paulo and coordinator of the Energy Governance Research Group, certified by the CNPq-Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development. He has experience in the field of fuels and electricity, with an emphasis on energy and environment, working mainly on the following themes: energy policy, energy planning, energy alternatives, energy and society and energy sustainability. He is an accredited professor in the Graduate Program in Energy and in the Graduate Program in Environmental Science at USP where he advised theses and dissertations of graduate students and also supervised post-doctoral partners.

Edmilson Dias de Freitas is a full professor at the Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences of the University of São Paulo, working in the fields of biosphere-atmosphere interactions and numerical modeling of the atmosphere. Dr. Edmilson has worked on issues related to urban regions and their interactions with the surrounding areas and associated atmospheric circulations, including air quality and pollution dispersion during wintertime and severe weather during the summer, and the application of model results to the public policy establishment and actions of civil protection. He was one of the developers of the BRAMS mesoscale model.

Klaus Frey is a full professor at the Federal University of the ABC (UFABC), Brazil, at the Postgraduate Programs in Territorial Planning and Management as well as in Public Policies. The latter he coordinated from 2013 to 2017. He currently also coordinates the International Master SPRING at UFABC, a joint master program between Technical University Dortmund, UFABC, and other four universities in Chile, Tanzania, Ghana and the Philippines. He was a visiting professor at the Master in Urban Management at Unipiloto in Bogota, Colombia and at the Postgraduate Program 'Programming and Management of the Political and the Social Services' at University Milano-Bicocca. He is a researcher at the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPQ), working specifically on the following subjects: local and metropolitan governance, institutional analysis, policy networks, democracy and participation, public policy analysis, environmental governance and policy.

Leandro Luiz Giatti is an associate professor at the Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health of the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He has international expertise in sustainability and health, water-energy-food nexus, health promotion and participatory research approaches. His experience is characterized by interdisciplinary studies with the main efforts dedicated to socioenvironmental vulnerable groups and studies in the Brazilian Amazon Region. Giatti is a member of the Institute of Advanced Studies at USP and associate editor of the journal Ambiente & Sociedade (SCIELO-Brazil). In his academic research projects, he has advised theses and dissertations of graduate students and supervised post-doctoral partners.

Luciana Travassos is an assistant professor at the Bachelor of Territorial Planning and at the Postgraduate Program in Territorial Planning and Management. She is an architect and urban planner with a Ph.D. in environmental science. She has international expertise in urban risks and adaptation to climate change, and her main interest is in the relationship between the production of space and nature, based on environmental justice, with a focus on territorial dynamics and public policies.

Paulo Antônio de Almeida Sinisgalli is an associate professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He has international expertise in ecological economics, ecosystem services and water resources management research approaches. His experience is characterized by interdisciplinary studies associated with social ecological relationships and values. Sinisgalli is also a member of the Institute of Advanced Studies at USP. In his academic research projects, he has advised theses and dissertations of graduate students.

Sandra Momm is an architect and urban planner (UFSC), Ph.D. at PROCAM-USP, post-doctorate at the Department of Spatial Planning-TU Dortmund. She is a professor and coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Territorial Planning and Management at the Federal University of ABC. She is coordinator of Group 2 Territorialities, Spatialities and Innovation in Environmental Governance of FAPESP's Thematic Project MacroAmb.

Silvia Zanirato is an associate professor at the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities (EACH) at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She works in the undergraduate course in environmental management and in the graduate programs in environmental science and social change and political participation, …