Avaliação de políticas públicas para a gestão integrada de recursos hídricos sob a ótica das dimensões institucional e ambiental

Abstract

This study proposes a conceptual model applied to water resources management for assessing environmental management policies. The main premise is that public policies have a natural cycle of design, regulation, implementation and evaluation, to achieve their institutional objectives. Institutions involved in politics are conditioned by environment, so that institutional performance is influenced by subjects and standards behavior, physical parameters, and in turn, influence the institutional change. These elements define the criteria for efficiency assessment under a measure of sustainable development and in accordance to of integrated water resources management (IWRM) methodology. Based on literature, documents, case study and by applying the deductive method, we analyzed Brazilian National Water Resources Policy (1997) for groundwater industrial user’s rights in the lower course of Paraiba River Basin, Paraiba. Through the establishment of qualitative and quantitative analysis, the generated model was calibrated institutional and environmental with data, related to the case study selected, and the metadata were used to compose the indicators that feed the model. This model allows a perspective of IWRM, providing objective results on the efficiency feasibility assessment of environmental and water management public policies.