Water governance in brazil: reflections from the literature
International Journal of Development Research
Water governance in brazil: reflections from the literature
Received 10th July, 2020; Received in revised form 29th August, 2020; Accepted 16th September, 2020; Published online 30th October, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Larissa de Lima Trindade et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Although Brazil has a water resources management system with some maturity, more than 20 years after the enactment of the Water Law, it still faces great challenges in its management process. Identifying important themes in the water governance process in the country, based on a literature review, was the main objective of this study. The integration of 31 papers on the topic enabled the creation of seven categories of discussion. The results show that institutional articulation, the Fragilities faced mainly by river basin committees and social participation are the themes most present in most texts and reveal the main challenges to be overcome in order to build good governance of Brazilian waters.
