Institutional Analysis of Water Management Committees in Brazil (1)
Policy reforms took place during the 1990s aiming at establishing a novel model for water management in Brazil. Such reforms have created watershed/catchment management committees, as the main means to implement the model at the watershed/catchment level. As a new and evolving experiment, the Brazilian case provides an interesting opportunity to examine institutional dynamics and how it has resulted in a more integrated, decentralised and participatory governance, as called for by the National Water Resources policy.
(1) This project has, primarily, been undertaken as part of a Post-doc Fellowship with the Centre for Sustainable Development at the University of Brasilia (Brazil) and Projeto Marca d’Água (Watermark Project), with support from the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq).
Publications Derived from this Project
FIDELMAN, P.I.J.; FRANK, B. ; KECK, M. ; MOREIRA, M.M.M.A.; ABERS, R. N. ; JOHNSSON, R. M. F. 2008., (ed.), B. Frank, Projeto Marca d’Água: Seguindo as Mudanças na Gestão das Bacias Hidrográficas do Brasil: Caderno 2: Comitês de Bacia sob o Olhar de seus Membros [Watershed Committees in Brazil: The Views from Committee Members], FURB, Blumenau.
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FIDELMAN, P.I.J. Organismos de Gestão de Recursos Hídricos: Uma Abordagem Institucional, [Water Resrources Management Entities in Brazil: An Institutional Analysis]. In: ed., R. N. Abers (forthcoming).
FIDELMAN, P.I.J. Abordagem Institucional para a Análise de Organismos de Gestão de Recursos Hídricos [Analysing Water Resources Management Entities – An Institutional Approach] (in preparation)
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