ASSIS, W. D.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1860787982787839; ASSIS, Wanessa Dunga de.
Abstract:
Water sustainability is an outstading issue that must be addressed taking into
consideration the management of supply and demand. Therefore, there is a need for
water governance systems proven effective in establishing policies that guide decisionmaking
through the intrinsic complexity of interscale and multi-level interactions. This
work developed a conceptual model for the diagnosis of Multi-level Governance in
Brazilian shared basins, with application in the São Francisco River Basin (BHSF).
This work considered two sub-levels of the local level of the administrative scale: macro
local level (BHSF) and micro local level (BHSF sub-basins). The first methodological
step consists in determining the degree of implementation of the Brazilian water policy,
through the use of an adaptation of the methodological indicators’ Framework for
Water Governance defined by the Principles of the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD) for the Water Governance and the
establishment of interscale and multi-level interactions of this water governance
system. The second methodological step consisted of the creation of the Conceptual
Model for the Diagnosis of Multi-level Governance. Based on the study of a set of
indicators for different dimensions of governance, under analysis from the perspective
of articulation and decentralization, in which intersection of the classes identified in the
Multi-level Governance Matrix results in degrees of the significance of Multi-Level
Governance. This model was validated through document analysis in the BHSF as a
macro local level and the Salitre River Basin (BHS) as a micro local level. The results
show the variability in the implementation of management instruments and
hydrographic basin committees in the 34 sub-basins that make up the BHSF. States
with maximal resource management policy, such as Minas Gerais, presented positive
results. On the other hand, the sub-basins of the Lower São Francisco presented
negative results. The Multi-level Governance between BHSF and BHS identified
through the Multi-level Governance Matrix proposed in this work was measured as
partially significant. in conclusion, the proposed evaluation model of Multi-level
Governance managed to represent the real situation in the case study when applied in
the comparative analysis between two sub-levels of the local level of the administrative
scale: macro (BHSF) and micro (BHS); under two criteria: articulation and
decentralization; which demonstrates the efficiency of the proposed model.