Water Resources Management: Coexistence and Conflict in Semiarid Brazil

Authors

  • Thiago Ferreira Dias Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)
  • Daniel Araújo Valença Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido (UFERSA)
  • Iriane Teresa de Araújo Universidade Aberta do Brasil (UAB/UFERSA); Faculdade Mater Christi
  • Rayane Cristina de Andrade Gomes Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido (UFERSA)
  • Ronaldo Moreira Maia Jr. Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido (UFERSA)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21527/2237-6453.2016.34.91-126

Keywords:

Meio Ambiente, Recursos Hídrico, Conflitos

Abstract

The paper analyzes water management in the Brazilian semiarid region with emphasis on aspects of coexistence and conflicts over access in rural areas. Experiences of social coexistence in semiarid technologies from the joint to the Brazilian semiarid (ASA) and water conflicts from cases of irrigated areas in the states of Ceará and Rio Grande do Norte are explained. For this purpose, we used a qualitative approach through the use of primary and secondary data. The cases provide concrete actions that articulate civil society and the State in favor of the common good. The results indicate that the policy articulated by the ASA there is a governance process in which there are links between the forums of civil society and the interfaces in the planning and implementation of public policies in building public agenda that can bridge the gap between planning, deployment, management and improvement of this policy. In the second case the policy is implemented exclusion and allocation of those communities, placing them on the margins of development, scrapping its links with the territory. The water is not seen from the perspective of the common good and the communities are perceived as an obstacle to "development". Finally, it outlines themselves from the cases under study, with the idea that limiting access to water in the semiarid region, reflects the precarious welfare and perpetuation of relations of dependency, paternalism and clientelism high proportion of the population rural Brazilian semiarid.

Author Biographies

Thiago Ferreira Dias, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)

Professor da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Brasil) e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Gestão Pública/UFRN.

Daniel Araújo Valença, Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido (UFERSA)

Professor da UFERSA, membro do Grupo de Estudos em Direito Crítico, Marxismo e América Latina- Gedic; membro do Centro de Referência em Direitos Humanos do Semiárido, integrante da Rede Nacional de Advogadas e Advogados Populares - RENAP e membro da executiva nacional do Instituto de Pesquisa em Direitos e Movimentos Sociais – IPDMS.

Iriane Teresa de Araújo, Universidade Aberta do Brasil (UAB/UFERSA); Faculdade Mater Christi

Professora da Faculdade Mater Christi e pesquisadora responsável pelo fomento dos projetos vinculados a UAB/UFERSA.

Rayane Cristina de Andrade Gomes, Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido (UFERSA)

Discente do curso de Direito da UFERSA, estagiária do Centro de Referência em Direitos Humanos do Semiárido.

Ronaldo Moreira Maia Jr., Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido (UFERSA)

Discente do curso de Direito da UFERSA, estagiário do Centro de Referência em Direitos Humanos do Semiárido, membro do Grupo de Estudos em Direito Crítico, Marxismo e América Latina- Gedic e SER-TÃO.

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Published

2016-01-07

How to Cite

Dias, T. F., Valença, D. A., de Araújo, I. T., Gomes, R. C. de A., & Maia Jr., R. M. (2016). Water Resources Management: Coexistence and Conflict in Semiarid Brazil. Desenvolvimento Em Questão, 14(34), 91–126. https://doi.org/10.21527/2237-6453.2016.34.91-126

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 34 (2016)

Section

Artigos

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