- 2001
- Urban Brazil: past and future, Special Issue of Geoforum Vol.32, No.4. (co-editor With Marcio Valenca), London: Elsevier
- 1999
- The Challenge of Environmental Management in Urban Areas (co-editor with Adrian Atkinson, Julio Davila & Michael Mattingly), Aldershot: Ashgate
- 1998
- Environmental Strategies for Sustainable Development in Urban Areas: Lessons from Africa and Latin America (editor), Aldershot: Ashgate
- Illegal Cities - Law and Urban Change in Developing Countries (co-editor with Ann Varley), London: Zed Books
- 1995
- Law and Urban Change in Brazil, Aldershot: Avebury
- 2006
- Direito Urbanistico: estudos brasileiros e internacionais (organizador com Betania de Moraes Alfonsin), Belo Horizonte: Del Rey
- 2005
- Brazil Urbano (organizador com Marcio Moraes Valenca), Rio de Janeiro: Maudad
- 2004
- Direito de Moradia e Seguranca da Posse no Estatuto da Cidade (organizador com Betania de Moraes Alfonsin) , Belo Horizonte: Forum
- 2003
- A Lei e a Ilegalidade na producao do espaco urbano (organizador com Betania de Moraes Alfonsin) Belo Horizonte: Del Rey
- 2002
- Cidade, memoria e legislacao (organizador com Jurema Rugani) , Belo Horizonte: IAB
- 2001
- Direito Urbanistico e Politica Urbana no Brasil, (org) Belo Horizonte: Del Rey
- 2000
- Direito e Governanca: tendencias da gestao urbano-ambienatal e a reforma do setor publico (org), Belo Horizonte: Escola de Governo da Fundacao Joao Pinheiro
- 1998
- Direito Urbanístico (org), Belo Horizonte: Del Rey
- 2004
- Ciudades Ilegales - Ley y reforma urbana en paises en desarollo (co-editor with Ann Varley), Cochabamba, Bolivia: Promesha
- 2003
- Memorias del "Law and Urban Change" Workshop (co-editor with Betania Alfonsin) , Caderno de Trabajo 101, Quito, Ecuador: PGU
- 2000
- Derecho Espacio Urbano y Medio Ambiente (ed), Madrid: Dykinson/Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law
Books
In English
In Portuguese
In Spanish
- 2007
- Constructing the ‘Right to the City’ in Brazil, in 16 Social & Legal Studies
- Implementing the urban reform agenda in Brazil, in 19 Environment & Urbanization
- 2006
- Principles, bases and challenges of the National Programme to Support Sustainable Urban Land Regularisation in Brazil in Informal settlements: A perpetual challenge, edited by Marie Huchzermeyer and Aly Karam, Cape Town: UCT Press/Cordaid
- Main aspects of the regulatory framework governing urban land development processes in Brazil in World Bank, Country Management Unit, in Brazil - Inputs for a Strategy for Cities - A Contribution with a Focus on Cities and Municipalities, Volume II: Background papers, Report No. 35749-BR
- 2003
- llegal Housing: Law, Property Rights and Urban Space, in Harrison, Philip, Huchzermeyer, Marie & Mayekiso, Mzwanele (eds) Confronting Fragmentation: Housing and Urban Development in a Democratising Society, Landsdowne, South Africa: UCT
- 2002
- Providing security of tenure for the urban poor: the Brazilian experience, in Durand-Lasserve, Alain & Royston, Lauren (orgs) Holding their Ground – Secure land tenure for the urban poor in developing countries, London: Earthscan
- Combining tenure policies, urban planning and city management in Brazil, in Payne, Geoffrey (ed) Land, Rights and Innovation – Improving Tenure Security for the Urban Poor, London: ITDG
- Punishing environmental crimes in Brazil, in Brazil Network Website
- 2001
- Legality and Legitimacy in Urban Tenure Issues (Working Paper WP01GP1) (with Geoffrey Payne), Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
- 2000
- The legal regularisation of favelas in Brazil: problems and prospects, in 22 Third World Planning Review
- Law and the production of urban illegality: urban development in Brazil, in Faundez, Julio, Footer, Mary E. & Norton, Joseph J. (eds) Governance, Development and Globalization, London: Blackstone
- The legal regularisation of favelas in Brazil, in Latin American Report (UNISA, South Africa)
- 1999
- The Illegal City, in Habitat Debate (UNCHS, Vol. 5, No. 3)
- Redefining property rights in the age of liberalization and privatization, in Land Lines (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, November 1999)
- Policy and politics in urban environmental management, in Atkinson, Adrian, Davila, Julio, Fernandes, Edesio & Mattingly, Michael (eds) The Challenge of Environmental Management in Urban Areas, Aldershot: Ashgate
- 1998
- Law, the City and Citizenship in Developing Countries: an Introduction (with Ann Varley) in Fernandes, Edesio & Varley, Ann (eds) Illegal Cities - Law and Urban Change in Developing Countries, London: Zed Books
- Law and Urban Change in Brazil (with Raquel Rolnik), in Fernandes, Edesio & Varley, Ann (eds) Illegal Cities - Law and Urban Change in Developing Countries, London: Zed Books
- Learning from the South, in Fernandes, Edesio (ed) Environmental Strategies for Sustainable Development in Urban Areas: Lessons from Africa and Latin America (ed), Aldershot: Ashgate
- 1997
- Access to Urban Land and Housing in Brazil: ‘Three Degrees of Illegality’, Working Paper WP97EF1, Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
- 1996
- Constitutional Environmental Rights in Brazil, in Anderson, M.R & Boyle, A.E. (eds) Human Rights Approaches to Environmental Protection, Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Environmental Zoning: a solution for the Amazon Region? , in 5 RECIEL-Review of European Community and International Environmental Law
- Participatory Budget a new experience of democratic administration in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 11 Report
- 1995
- Illegal Cities: Land Tenure and Urban Rights in Latin American Cities, in 7 Report
- Curitiba, Brazil: Successfully Integrating Land Use and Transport Policies, in 5 Report
- Town Planning in Brazil: from "laissez faire" to state action, in 4 Report
- Collective Interests in Brazilian Environmental Law, in Robinson, D. & Dunkley, J. (eds) Public Interest Perspectives in Environmental Law, Chichester: Wiley Chancery Law
- 1994
- Defending Collective Interests in Brazilian environmental Law: An Assessment of the Civil Public Action, in 3 RECIEL - Review of European Community & International Environmental Law
- Extrajudicial Execution of Children: Shortcomings of Social Citizenship and the Fallacy of Criminal Justice in Brazil, in 12 The Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights
- 1993
- The legal regularisation of "favelas" in Brazil - The case of Belo Horizonte, in 2 Social & Legal Studies
- 1992
- Law, politics and environmental protection in Brazil, in 4 Journal of Environmental Law
- Juridical-institutional aspects of metropolitan administration in Brazil, in 14 Third World Planning Review
- 2006
- Estatuto da Cidade: Promovendo o encontro das agendas "verde" e "marrom", in Steinberger, Marilia (org) Territorio, ambiente e politicas publicas espaciais, Brasilia: Paralelo 15/LGE
- 2001
- Urban Law and Urban Policy in Brazil, in Fernandes, Edesio (ed) Urban Law and Urban Policy in Brazil, Belo Horizonte: Del Rey
- 2000
- Law in Governance, in Fernandes, Edesio (ed) Law and Governance: trends in urban environmental management and the reform of the public sector (ed), Belo Horizonte: Escola de Governo da Fundacao Joao Pinheiro
- 1999
- The legal regularisation of favelas in Brazil (translation) in Saule Jr., Nelson (ed) Direito a Cidade, Sao Paulo: Max Limonad/Polis
- 1988
- Direito do urbanismo: entre a cidade 'legal' e a cidade 'ilegal'", in Fernandes, E. (org.) Direito Urbanístico. Belo Horizonte: Del Rey
- Regularização de favelas: o caso de Belo Horizonte, in Fernandes, E. (org.) Direito Urbanístico. Belo Horizonte: Del Rey
- Direito e Urbanização no Brasil, in Fernandes, E. (org.) Direito Urbanístico. Belo Horizonte: Del Rey
- 1985
- Algumas idéias sobre a Constituinte, in Weffort, F. et al Brasil: Crise e Alternativas, Belo Horizonte: SEGRAC
- Articles in newsletters, newspapers, book reviews, book introductions
- 2005
- Um Novo Estatuto para as Cidades Brasileiras, in 22 Urbanismo - Revista da Associacao dos Urbanistas Portugueses, Portugal
- Preservacao ou Moradia? Falso conflito, in 38 JB Ecologico
- 2003
- Regularizacao Fundiaria Sustentavel, in Jornal do Advogado, OAB-MG, No. 227, Abril
- 1999
- The return of the philosopher of the city: rediscovering Henri Lefebvre's oeuvre, in 1 Topos
- 1986
- Direito Urbano: acomodando interesses, in 3 Revista do Instituto Jones dos Santos Neves
- 1985
- Aspectos da gestão ambiental no Brasil, in 8 Revista Mineira de Saneamento Básico
- PRO-FAVELA: Proteção a Favela, coordenacao do trabalho e participação na elaboração da cartilha publicada conjuntamente pela Secretaria de Estado do Trabalho e Ação Social de Minas Gerais e pela Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo Isabela Hendrix
- Patrimônio Histórico-Cultural, coordenação do trabalho e participação na elaboração da cartilha publicada pela Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo Izabela Hendrix
- 1982
- Sistema Tributário Nacional: necessidade de reforma, in 8 Informativo PLAMBEL
- 2007
- Redefinición de los derechos de propiedad en la era de la liberalización y la privatización, in Smolka, Martim O. & Mullahy, Laura (orgs) Perspectivas urbanas: temas críticos en políticas de suelo en América Latina, Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
- La ley y la producción de ilegalidad urbana, in Smolka, Martim O. & Mullahy, Laura (orgs) Perspectivas urbanas: temas críticos en políticas de suelo en América Latina, Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
- La influencia de El misterio del capital de Hernando de Soto, in Smolka, Martim O. & Mullahy, Laura (orgs) Perspectivas urbanas: temas críticos en políticas de suelo en América Latina, Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
- Regularización de la tierra y programas de mejoramiento: nuevas consideraciones (com Martim Smolka), in Smolka, Martim O. & Mullahy, Laura (orgs) Perspectivas urbanas: temas críticos en políticas de suelo en América Latina, Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
- 2000
- Law, Urban Space and the Environment, in Fernandes, Edesio (ed) Derecho, Espacio Urbano y Medio Ambiente, Madrid: Dykinson/Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law
- Articles in academic journals
- 2005
- Limites y posibilidades de la democratizacion del acceso al suelo urbano y a la vivienda en Brasild espues del estatuto de la Ciudad, in 37 Ciudad y Territorio - Estudios Territoriales (Espanha/Madrid, Ministerio de Vivienda)
- 2003
- Vivienda y tierra urbana: Tenencia de la Tierra y Pobreza Urbana en America Latina, in 12 Vivienda Popular (Uruguai)
- 1996
- Agenda para una Sociologia del Derecho Urbano en Brasil, in 1 Enlace - Revista Peruana de Sociologia Jurídica
- 1995
- Derecho y transformaciones urbanas en Brasil, in 1/Ano LVII Revista Mexicana de Sociologia
- 1999
- The legal regularisation of favelas in Brazil: problems and prospects (translation), in Storia Urbana
Chapters in books, Articles, Book Reviews and Working Papers
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In Portuguese
Book chapters:
In Spanish
Book chapters:
In Italian
- 1998
- The legal regularisation of favelas in Brazil, paper presented at the Workshop “Comparative Policy Perspectives on Urban Land Market Reform in Latin America, Southern Africa and Eastern Europe”, promoted by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
- 1997
- Land regularisation programmes in Brazil: the experience of Belo Horizonte, paper presented at the International Conference “Surveying Tomorrow’s Opportunities”, promoted by South Africa’s Ministry of Land Affairs and the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements
- 1996
- Access to urban land and housing in Brazil: three degrees of legality, paper presented at the “Seminar Series” promoted by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning of MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 1994
- Democratisation, Decentralisation and The Urban Question in Brazil and South Africa, paper presented at the "International Conference on Democratisation and Decentralisation in Africa and Asia", promoted by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies of the University of London
- Popular Urbanisation and the Right to the City in Brazil, paper presented at the "Law and Urban Space Workshop", promoted by the Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law
- 1993
- Environmental Protection in Brazil and the Amazon: a socio-legal approach, paper presented at the "South-North Centre Seminar Series”, promoted by the South-North Centre for Environmental Policy of the University of London
- The Judicial Defence of Collective Interests in Brazilian Environmental Law, paper presented at the "Environmentalist Law Conference - Myth or Reality?", promoted by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London
- The Missing Link: Metropolitan Regions, Urbanisation and Federalism in Brazil, paper published in the Annals of the Ninth Urban Change and Conflict Conference, Sheffield University, UK, promoted by the International Sociological Association
- Extra-judicial execution of children in Brazil, paper presented at the "The Rule of Law Revisited - Critical Legal Conference Annual Meeting", promoted by the Critical Legal Conference
- Human Rights Violations in the Time of Democracy: Brazil Today, paper presented at the "Congress on Human Rights for the 21st Century", promoted by the Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law
- The 'Right to the City' and the construction of citizenship in Brazil, paper presented at the "Congress on Human Rights for the 21st Century", promoted by the International Institute for the Sociology of Law
- Legal Protection of the Environment - and of the Amazon - in Brazil, paper presented at the conference "Biodiversity and Environment - Brazilian Themes for the Future", promoted by the Linnean Society of London and the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew
- Constitutional environmental rights in Brazil: distinguishing rhetoric from reality, paper presented at the conference "Human Rights Approaches to Environmental Protection in the Commonwealth and Beyond", promoted by the Commonwealth Institute and the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London
- 1991
- Urban Law and Urban Change: an analysis of the Brazilian case, paper published in the Annals of the Eighth Urban Change and Conflict Conference, Lancaster University, UK, promoted by the International Sociological Association
- 1995
- Reflecting upon the experiences of regularisation of favelas, paper presented at the seminar "Challenges of the Informal Town", promoted by UN - HABITAT II and the Municipality of Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- Master Plan, paper presented at the "National Meeting of Municipal Attorneys", promoted by the Brazilian Institute of Administrative Law, Brazil
- Metropolitan Administration, paper presented at the seminar The Future of Latin American Cities", promoted by UN - HABITAT II and the Municipality of Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- Legality and Reality of Urban Legislation, paper presented at the seminar "Belo Horizonte debates its future", promoted by the Municipality of Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- 1986
- Urban Law in Brazil Today, paper published in the Annals of 5th Brazilian Conference on Administrative Law, IBDA/ALMG, Brazil
- 1985
- Aspects of environmental management in Brazil, paper published in the Annals of the "Environmental Situation and Quality of Life in Belo Horizonte's Metropolitan Region" Conference, ABGE/IGC-UFMG, Brazil
- 1992
- Droit de l'urbanisme et reforme urbaine, paper presented at the "Fifth International Research Conference on Housing", promoted amongst others by the International Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada