A gestão participativa como elemento de governança de recursos hídricos: o estudo de caso da gestão do CBH e UCS do Litoral Norte da Paraíba.

Abstract

The integration of water resources management with environmental management is one of the guidelines foreseen for the implementation of the National Water Resources Policy and is part of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG6). Despite the provision in the legislation, the collegiate bodies of the basin committees (CBHs) do not always have the effective representation of members of the Conservation Units (UCs) that make up, in whole or in part, the area of basin. The CBHs and the Management Councils (CGs) of the UCs are collective spaces that encourage participatory management with representatives from different sectors of society. The objective of this work is to contribute to the strengthening of environmental and water policies through governance aspects for the consolidation of participatory management in basin committees and management councils of UCs in the State of Paraiba. As for the methodological aspects, this is an applied, descriptive, qualitative research, with case study analysis of the mutual participation of the members at North Coast Basins Committee (CBHLN) and the Management Councils of the Environmental Protection Area (APA) and the Mangroves Area of Relevant Ecological Interest (ARIE) of the Mamanguape River, from 2015 to 2018. The analysis of the occupation and overlapping areas of the UCs and the CBHLN was aided by the design of a thematic map. It can be seen that the integration of memberships of the CGs at UCs and of the CBHLN was effective, with an increase in the number of social actors involved in discussions on water resources. Among the Governance Dimensions, those that favored the integration of the members of these councils, the LegalInstitutional, Intergovernmental relations, StateSociety interaction and Management Instruments dimensions stood out. Governance guidelines are pointed out that contribute to the consolidation and expansion of integration in the score of environmental and water resources management, whit guaranteed participation of representatives in organs collegiate bodies of the CBHLN and the UCs.