Integrated water resources management as water management policy in Brazil

Authors

  • Mayane Bento Silva Professora da UNAMA - Universidade da Amazônia
  • Mário Miguel Amin Garcia Herreros Professor Permanente do Mestrado em Administração da Unama - Universidade da Amazônia
  • Fabricio Quadros Borges IFPA - Instituto Federal do Pará UNAMA - Universidade da Amazônia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/1983465913358

Abstract

Due to the importance of water for life and development, several international debates focused on the construction of strategies to mitigate the risk of water scarcity, resulting in a new management paradigm, called Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). Therefore, this study analyzes how Brazil is managing its water resources, in order to evaluate its proximity to the IWRM model, using a qualitative, exploratory research based on secondary, bibliographic and documentary sources. The results show that Brazil has advanced in terms of law, water management and use and has been progressively integrated into the IWRM model, but it still needs to enable actions that are supported in a more participatory and decentralized environment to extend homogeneously Water management mechanisms, in order to reach regions such as those in the Amazon basin.

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Author Biographies

Mayane Bento Silva, Professora da UNAMA - Universidade da Amazônia

Mestre em Gestão de Recursos Naturais e Desenvolvimento Local na Amazônia pela UFPA - Universidade Federal do Pará/NUMA - Nucleo de Meio Ambiente.

Mário Miguel Amin Garcia Herreros, Professor Permanente do Mestrado em Administração da Unama - Universidade da Amazônia

Doutor em Agricultural Economics. University of Florida, UF, Estados Unidos.

Fabricio Quadros Borges, IFPA - Instituto Federal do Pará UNAMA - Universidade da Amazônia

Pós-Doutor pelo IPEN/USP

Doutor em Desenvolvimento pela UFPA

Mestrado em Planejamento

Administrador de Empresas

Economista

 

Professor Permanente do Programa de Mestrado em Administração da UNAMA

Professor do Quadro Permanente do IFPA

 

 

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Published

2017-04-17

How to Cite

Silva, M. B., Herreros, M. M. A. G., & Borges, F. Q. (2017). Integrated water resources management as water management policy in Brazil. Revista De Administração Da UFSM, 10(1), 101–115. https://doi.org/10.5902/1983465913358

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2017): Jan - Mar

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